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!
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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