by Ann » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:48 pm
There were many nice images here.
The Moon set picture looked really nice. The stacked Moons looked like, well, a stack of dinner plates, lit on one side. I like how the Moon becomes so visibly redder as it becomes increasingly redder as it sinks toward the horizon. Come to think of it, now that I look at the image again, the stacked Moons make a shape that looks almost like an old tube-shaped telescope, gazing at the stars!
I also liked the lone Perseid flashing past the Pleiades as the famous cluster is sinking into the sunset.
The Earth shadow and Moonset picture is really good. I remember showing a colleague the Moon shining through what appeared to be a thick blue fogbank. The "fogbank" was the Earth's shadow, of course.
And NGC 6946 is a fascinating galaxy and supernova factory, and it is always nice to have a new good color image of it! This one really brings out how the spiral arms of this galaxy are truly teeming with pink nebulae.
Ann
There were many nice images here.
The Moon set picture looked really nice. The stacked Moons looked like, well, a stack of dinner plates, lit on one side. I like how the Moon becomes so visibly redder as it becomes increasingly redder as it sinks toward the horizon. Come to think of it, now that I look at the image again, the stacked Moons make a shape that looks almost like an old tube-shaped telescope, gazing at the stars!
I also liked the lone Perseid flashing past the Pleiades as the famous cluster is sinking into the sunset.
The Earth shadow and Moonset picture is really good. I remember showing a colleague the Moon shining through what appeared to be a thick blue fogbank. The "fogbank" was the Earth's shadow, of course.
And NGC 6946 is a fascinating galaxy and supernova factory, and it is always nice to have a new good color image of it! This one really brings out how the spiral arms of this galaxy are truly teeming with pink nebulae.
Ann