by owlice » Fri May 21, 2010 10:14 pm
If anyone would care to share what about an APOD secured his/her vote, I'd be very interested to read it!
For me, voting for an APOD is different from voting for a recently-submitted image, because I have the text to consider when voting for an APOD. One of the criteria for me is "What did I learn from this APOD?" or even better, "Does the image at which I'm looking advance knowledge or have the potential to advance our understanding?"
So though I found each of these images appealing in different ways, my choices really came down to the first three images, especially the second and third, and deciding between the SDO sun image and the Mimas image was very difficult! I think astronomers will learn tons from SDO; its capabilities are amazing!
But I voted for the Mimas image; to see something so far away in such exquisite detail astounds me, and the ability to see such detail will also increase our understanding of our universe (or at least our little corner of it).
If anyone would care to share what about an APOD secured his/her vote, I'd be very interested to read it!
For me, voting for an APOD is different from voting for a recently-submitted image, because I have the text to consider when voting for an APOD. One of the criteria for me is "What did I learn from this APOD?" or even better, "Does the image at which I'm looking advance knowledge or have the potential to advance our understanding?"
So though I found each of these images appealing in different ways, my choices really came down to the first three images, especially the second and third, and deciding between the SDO sun image and the Mimas image was [i]very[/i] difficult! I think astronomers will learn tons from SDO; its capabilities are amazing!
But I voted for the Mimas image; to see something so far away in such exquisite detail astounds me, and the ability to see such detail will also increase our understanding of our universe (or at least our little corner of it).