Hey everyone,
have you seen Saturn trough a telescope? If not: you should! You can easily see the great rings with the naked eye. But … currently we see it “edge on”, leading to a less stunning image, as shown below for the current year and 2028:
https://preview.redd.it/evfapiwsp2bd1.png?width=1424&format=png&auto=webp&s=d576030051c11881c960932445316b0f97165da1
Now in my “Compressed Cosmos” coding tutorial video, where I try to create Python snippets in less than 100 lines of code, I created a small script to compute this tilt angle evolution over time. Currently it is almost 0°, but the angle increases. The following plot shows this angle vs. the time, resulting from my created script (a negative angle indicates the view “from below”):
https://preview.redd.it/gnu6dnrao2bd1.png?width=1008&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbdac869044c147898fd042fdf652756bbda6784
Now if you’d like to understand how I did it, check out my current Notebook on my [GitHub repo](https://github.com/ThomasAlbin/Astroniz-YT-Tutorials/blob/main/CompressedCosmos/CompressedCosmos_Saturns_Ring.ipynb). I made also a short video about it on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/Lr5Swe49ApM).
Hope you can learn something from it 🙂
by MrAstroThomas