by Ann » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:27 am
Stefano de Rosa, that is a truly magical picture. The Moon looks as insubstantial and lightweight as a balloon as it floats behind that magnificent building.
And I really like that seeming encounter between two striped and apparently similarly sized objects in space, the ISS and Jupiter!
Robert Gendler, that is a very handsome image of beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1672. I know that the galaxy looks even better on your own homepage, where we can see the galaxy at a larger size. As for the closeup of the nucleus, I guess those blue and bluish knots are large clusters, aren't they?
Rogelio Bernal Andreo, you know that I am one of your diehard fans!
Your image of the region around Polaris is very very beuatiful and delightfully detailed. It is certainly fascinating to see all that galactic cirrus. However, as a color commentator, I've got to say something... Polaris isn't blue! It has a color index of +0.636, which makes it marginally yellower than the Sun. Okay, but when I look at that picture again, it looks a little bit as if that blue light surrounding Polaris might be a reflection nebula, in which case the blue color would certainly be all right. And there sure is a lot of cirrus around Polaris, but is the cirrus at the same distance from us as Polaris? I have never heard that Polaris would be immersed in a reflection nebula, and my software says that the famous star is unreddened. So I doubt that the color is really right here, but the picture is definitely delightful!
Ann
Stefano de Rosa, that is a truly magical picture. The Moon looks as insubstantial and lightweight as a balloon as it floats behind that magnificent building.
And I really like that seeming encounter between two striped and apparently similarly sized objects in space, the ISS and Jupiter! :mrgreen:
Robert Gendler, that is a very handsome image of beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1672. I know that the galaxy looks even better on your own homepage, where we can see the galaxy at a larger size. As for the closeup of the nucleus, I guess those blue and bluish knots are large clusters, aren't they?
Rogelio Bernal Andreo, you know that I am one of your diehard fans! :D Your image of the region around Polaris is very very beuatiful and delightfully detailed. It is certainly fascinating to see all that galactic cirrus. However, as a color commentator, I've got to say something... Polaris isn't blue! It has a color index of +0.636, which makes it marginally yellower than the Sun. Okay, but when I look at that picture again, it looks a little bit as if that blue light surrounding Polaris might be a reflection nebula, in which case the blue color would certainly be all right. And there sure is a lot of cirrus around Polaris, but is the cirrus at the same distance from us as Polaris? I have never heard that Polaris would be immersed in a reflection nebula, and my software says that the famous star is unreddened. So I doubt that the color is really right here, but the picture is definitely delightful!
Ann