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Stardust wrote:One word: Yuk!
On occasion I have to question APOD's reasoning. Today's posting is one such occasion.
It's a waste of time.

NoelC wrote:at 9 am the sun would be up.

Czerno-1 wrote:Small nit : the caption invites us to look at "the Moon at 9 pm, ..."

Why "pm." rather than "am...?

beyond wrote:

Czerno-1 wrote:Small nit : the caption invites us to look at "the Moon at 9 pm, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 pm and 7 pm, and the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy at 5 pm."

Why "pm." rather than "am.", what difference does it make on a 12 hours clock dial ?
I's suggest correcting to "Moon at 9 hours", etc.

Strange picture today anyway, not of my preferred ones

Keep keeping on

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Czerno

Actually the correct term to use would be "O'clock". Such as the moon at 9 O'clock. Our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 O'clock ECT. You are useing the clock face to locate things so the term O'clock is used. You are not useing the clock face to tell time which would include am & pm. The military uses the term Hours because they use a 24 hour clock referrence.

neufer wrote:

beyond wrote:

Czerno-1 wrote:
Small nit : the caption invites us to look at "the Moon at 9 pm, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 pm and 7 pm, and the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy at 5 pm."

Why "pm." rather than "am.", what difference does it make on a 12 hours clock dial ?
I's suggest correcting to "Moon at 9 hours", etc.

Actually the correct term to use would be "O'clock". Such as the moon at 9 O'clock. Our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 O'clock ECT. You are useing the clock face to locate things so the term O'clock is used. You are not using the clock face to tell time which would include am & pm. The military uses the term Hours because they use a 24 hour clock referrence.

1) "O'clock" takes up more space than "pm" (and clearly space is at a premium).

2) The image top is clearly defined as being "noon" such that all the times going clockwise would be post meridian of a 12 hour clock. Hence, there can be no confusion of it being a 24 hour clock.

mexhunter wrote:Hi Mark, Art:

makc wrote:

mexhunter wrote:Where is Le Petit Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery?

On the other side, getting some tan.

I'm not so sure. I think in the other side is a solar eclipse.

APOD Robot wrote:The surrounding sky contains many jewels of the night including the Moon at 9 pm

makc wrote:

mexhunter wrote:Where is Le Petit Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery?

On the other side, getting some tan.

neufer wrote: 46610 Besixdouze is an asteroid belonging to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The name was suggested by F. Hemery and J. Grygar in 1993, as a reference to the French short story The Little Prince, where the title character lived on an asteroid named B612.

46610 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number B612.

beyond wrote:

Czerno-1 wrote:
Small nit : the caption invites us to look at "the Moon at 9 pm, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 pm and 7 pm, and the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy at 5 pm."

Why "pm." rather than "am.", what difference does it make on a 12 hours clock dial ?
I's suggest correcting to "Moon at 9 hours", etc.

Actually the correct term to use would be "O'clock". Such as the moon at 9 O'clock. Our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 O'clock ECT. You are useing the clock face to locate things so the term O'clock is used. You are not using the clock face to tell time which would include am & pm. The military uses the term Hours because they use a 24 hour clock referrence.

Czerno-1 wrote:Small nit : the caption invites us to look at "the Moon at 9 pm, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 pm and 7 pm, and the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy at 5 pm."

Why "pm." rather than "am.", what difference does it make on a 12 hours clock dial ?
I's suggest correcting to "Moon at 9 hours", etc.

Strange picture today anyway, not of my preferred ones

Keep keeping on

--
Czerno

mexhunter wrote:
Where is Le Petit Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery?

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/The_Route_of_All_Evil wrote:
The Route of All Evil (Futurama)


<<Dwight and Cubert form a newspaper delivery service called Awesome Express. They order an easy-to-construct ship that moves via pedaling and deliver papers to the asteroid inhabited by the Little Prince. When his paper is thrown, the Prince catches it. But later, when the delivery mode is speeded up by Hermes shooting the papers from a gun, the Little Prince gets hit, and flies off his asteroid into space, crying "Au revoir!".>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit-Prince_%28moon%29 wrote:
46610 Besixdouze is an asteroid belonging to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The name was suggested by F. Hemery and J. Grygar in 1993, as a reference to the French short story The Little Prince, where the title character lived on an asteroid named B612.

46610 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number B612.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET wrote:
<<N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide, abbreviated DEET, is a slightly yellow oil. It is the most common active ingredient in insect repellents. DEET was developed by the United States Army, following its experience of jungle warfare during World War II. It was originally tested as a pesticide on farm fields, and entered military use in 1946 and civilian use in 1957 (marketed as 6-12).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bevin_House wrote:
<<The Bevin House, is a historic 22-room Victorian mansion on the north shore of Long Island, at 76 Bevin Road, within the Incorporated Village of Asharoken, New York. The home was built by Cornelius Henry DeLamater in 1862 in French Second Empire architectural style. DeLamater was the owner of the DeLamater Iron Works located in NYC where W. 13th St meets the Hudson River. The turret, engines, and weaponry on the Ironclad "Monitor" were built by DeLamater's foundry under the direction of noted marine engineer John Ericsson. DeLamater named his summer estate "Vermland" after the Swedish province where Ericsson was born as the two men were best of friends and inseparable.

During World War II, exiled French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was looking for a suitable writing location outside of New York City. Saint-Exupéry rented The Bevin House, which is where he wrote the well known children's book The Little Prince during late 1942.>>