Starship Asterisk*

tomjeff76 wrote:Thanks for my current wallpaper.

Beyond wrote:
Ah, i didn't know that. Thanks.
It took me a couple of times counting to 'get-it'.

gmPhil wrote:Am I the only one who cannot see a tree, waiting patiently or otherwise? (Don't tell me: it's behind the bear!)

eesinc wrote:The photo of the super cell dated 5 May 2013 is a a fake. At least as far as the date taken is concerned.
I have the identical picture on my computer with a date of 30/11/2010
I received this photo sometime in early 2011 along with a batch of other storm related photos.
I don't remember the source but it is certainly the same photo.

Q4: Have some APOD pictures been run more than once?
A4: Yes. Many of our readers have been with us less than a year and are unaware of some really spectacular or important astronomy pictures. New information about old pictures is becoming available over the WWW. The text and links for rerun pictures will make use of this newly available information. So although the picture might be old, some of the text and links of each APOD will be new. Also, more web surfers have larger bandwidth connections, which allows us to post higher-resolution image files that can be transferred conveniently. Software to handle more sophisticated image file formats has also become more common, so the picture's size and/or format might be new. Lastly, rerunning APODs saves us time and helps us update our archive. In general, our rerun policy currently is to only rerun APODs more than one year old to keep the pictures relatively "new" to new APOD viewers. We will almost never rerun more than two pictures in any given week. So when you load the current APOD,it is still, most probably, a new picture.

RonDavis wrote:"photographed in July" but it doesn't say July of which year. I have had this exact same picture, with the exact same description, in my Webshots wallpaper collection for at least 4 years. Much though I like this picture, I hope APOD does not degenerate to reruns.