APOD of June 16, 2005, Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer

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by BMAONE23 » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:01 pm

BOLDRA,
I agree with you. I find it to be a breath taking image too. I especially like the conjoined galaxy pair in the lower left corner
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sombrero

by Boldra » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:54 pm

If I'd seen this thread earlier I'm sure I'd have picked the non-rings picture! After all it's been my background image since it appeared on APOD...

Boldra

by deep-turtle » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:30 am

I guess that would be Robert J. Nemiroff, one of the two persons that take care of APOD...

by Kid » Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:38 am

Who is RJN anyway :?: i don't get it...

by deep-turtle » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:49 am

It's only a joke... Maybe for the 20th birthday of APOD the faces will be photoshopped/gimpped (or whatever is fashionable then) as well. ;)

I go on with the "revelations" about this picture : maybe the reason why Saturn was confused for Jupiterr is that we don't see the rings. Here is the source :

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050504.html

Something I found funny is that if you look close enough at the structure that support the globe in the Vermeer picture, there is a horizontal wooden circular part that looks very much like a ring!! That's why I decided to put Saturn in there. :)

by makc » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:44 am

Could someone please enlight me?
In [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050616.html]that APOD[/url] explanation RJN wrote:industrious Robert Nemiroff (left) and persistent Jerry Bonnell (right)
But I don't see any difference from original images posted by cherlin.

:?:

by BMAONE23 » Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:01 pm

I think everyone was confusing the image of the sombrero galaxy as the rings of Saturn due to the orientation. A great hide if you ask me :wink:

by deep-turtle » Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:25 am

OK, nobody want to play... :(

Here is one of the answers anyway ! :wink:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050511.html

Good day everybody !

by deep-turtle » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:32 pm

cherlin wrote:Congratulations to your Photoshopper.
Thanks... Actually you should have said a Gimpper ;)

As for the funny game of recognizing the pictures you're almost there... Somebody already corrected for Saturn instead of Jupiter and for the CMBR patterns, but there is another mistake :
Saturn's rings twice, in visible and infrared light?
One of the picture is not saturn's rings...

by pinot » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:05 pm

Whoops! 0 for 2 - it is indeed Saturn, and I will concede the other to be cosmic background radiation also...

by makc » Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:52 am

:arrow: Here is another part of very same discussion. Folks, try to keep it in one thread, 'kay?

wrong planet

by bswift » Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:02 am

and I do believe that the globe is of Saturn, not Jupiter.

another item

by bswift » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:59 pm

I'd like to know what the histogram-like feature is on the wall next to the HST portrait. Any guesses?

by carylsue » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:56 pm

I just knew the art history classes would come in handy. I got a huge kick out of the double Vermeer and especially the Jupiter globe, the first anachronism I noticed.

APOD of June 16, 2005, Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer

by cherlin » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:39 pm

Congratulations to your Photoshopper.

I looked up the originals on Google Images. I recommend
http://www.wga.hu/art/v/vermeer/03d/28astro.jpg
827x930 pixels
http://www.wga.hu/art/v/vermeer/03d/29geogr.jpg
988x1123 pixels

Both figures are clearly the same person. "...it has been suggested that the scientist portrayed here is none other than Anthony van Leeuwenhoek."
http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/cat_abo ... rapher.htm
I don't see much resemblance, myself.

I mostly recognize the APOD images stuck in the picture.

globes
cosmic background radiation replacing sky globe
Jupiter replacing Earth globe

cabinet
Eskimo Nebula

On the right
Hubble Space Telescope in orbit
Saturn's rings twice, in visible and infrared light?
Surface of Mars?
Sun in emission from 11 times ionized Iron

but I can't match them all with their dates or the point of scientific interest described at the time.

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