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Is every aurora the same ? Same atoms reacting the same or is there a " dna " to CME 's ?

This is what we have in store, and worse, when everyone with a few million bucks can build a HAARP ELF Antenna Array and superheat the ionosphere to ungodly temperatures at any given moment. Its the latest craze.. :|

Hi there,

I have a question for editors of this photo. You could really help me out if you would tell me how do you make an annotated photo? What software do you use to put drawings and names on the pictures?

Thank you,
Tadas.

Looks like Mick Jagger to me!

I must lack the "it looks like" gene. To me it looks like an aurora. And that's enough for me.

I recall the classic childhood game, my friends and I on our backs on a grassy hillside, looking up at puffy clouds flying by, and each offering our version of what they looked like. "A rabbit", "a car", "a boat", "a cloud". That last one was me and all I usually got for my effort was groans.

Rob

As soon as I saw that image, I thought "Ohh it's Falkor from The Never Ending Story!" :lol2:

Looks like a goat to me.

I think we can all agree that this is a dragon.

It's Uncle Deadly! [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ov_pUywoVrc/TnD4LyO9OxI/AAAAAAAAHL8/UQVjyNBu7k0/s1600/udead08.jpg[/img]

When I first saw the picture I saw an eagle, but I also see the goat.

[quote="ta152h0"]If I may continue on the subject of todays APOD and see animals portrayed in the nightsky, I submit today's astronomers would name these constellations somewhat differently, based on today's surroundings. Such as " 69 Torino Cobrajet " constellation, oh yes, I see the " Eiffel Tower " nebula, " the Great Wall of China " peculiar galaxy.....[/quote]
Of course. We can see this in the names of the existing constellations- those in the north have ancient names tied to the mythology of early civilizations. But those in the far south were named by Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries- an age of exploration and technology. So the southern constellations have very different sorts of names- Telescopium, Octans, Carina, Circinus, Reticulum, Pictor, Horologium, Vela, Microscopium, and many others, all representing the technology and newly discovered animals of the times.

While similiar to a goat, particularly the muzzle, it is very much like several sf-fantasy illustrators' version of a dragon with what appears to be a flowing mane.

Reminds me of the aurora I saw while driving north in Michigan about 20 years or so ago. We were about 90 to 100 mi NW of Detroit when the aurora began sweeping across the sky. A number of vehicles pulled off the interstate to line up along a dark country road and watch the show. I have seen several minor displays but never one so vivid and rapidly changing as that one. It was a kaledoscopic dispay of rapidly changing changing brilliant color and shapes.

Beautiful picture. Looks like a goat to me, but I can also see the dragon. I'm partial to goats, because I've met a few, and I've never met a dragon. From the distorted shape of the house in the foreground, I suspect the photographer may have been entheogenically enhanced, which could also account for the vivid colors and arresting shapes in the aurora. :wink:

P.S. It has been fun to watch Uranus retrograding past 44 Piscium for the past month.

Not just A dragon THIS dragon!

http://www.wayrift.com/ch23-pg35/

And what's more his origin actually Fits for interstellar appearances.

Before I read it, my first thought was "woah. Its a freaking dragon nebula." then I read the description, and I guess it does look like a goat sorta.

A palm tree.

Seeing something like this in person must be amazing..

It looks like a Dragon to me. One of the Great Frost Dragons.

It looks like the head of Cthulhu.

The aurora reminds me of Atreyu in The Neverending Story.

I give today's APOD an [size=200][b][color=#0000BF]A +[/color][/b][/size] 8-) :clap: :clap: :thumb_up: :thumb_up:

It is interesting that everyone sees different things. To me, it looks like a dragon, not a goat. So there you go. Weird or what?

[quote="R&EHusky"]Clearly this is Falkor the flying luck dragon from The Neverending Story.[/quote]

heh - and I thought I'd be the only one that saw that!

If I may continue on the subject of todays APOD and see animals portrayed in the nightsky, I submit today's astronomers would name these constellations somewhat differently, based on today's surroundings. Such as " 69 Torino Cobrajet " constellation, oh yes, I see the " Eiffel Tower " nebula, " the Great Wall of China " peculiar galaxy.....

It looked like a dragon head to me when it first popped up.