Visualising Saturn's Rings | AstPy-14 Walkthrough
Channel: astroDimitrios
Date: 2020-12-18

Walkthrough of the activity AstPy-14 where students visualise the rings of Saturn and calculate the Roche limits for some of its moons.

See the code here:
https://github.com/astroDimitrios/Astronomy/tree/master/Code/AstPy-14%20Planetary%20Rings

I made mistakes! There are probably some I didn't catch - message if you find any.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Making Predictions
1:20 Ring Data
10:04 Starting the Plot
12:50 Adding the Rings
18:03 Adding Saturn's Moons
26:14 Roche Limits
35:47 Jupiter's Rings
36:49 Further Reading