Starship Asterisk*

by **orin stepanek** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:28 pm

zwonky wrote:Hi! i found more info here http://loadingvault.com/search.php?q=Horsehead+Nebula

Hi! Your link is not coming in.

Orin

by **zwonky** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:40 pm

Hi! i found more info here http://loadingvault.com/search.php?q=Horsehead+Nebula

by **Martin** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:25 pm

LOL ---

by **ckam** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:09 am

BMAONE23 wrote:Well ckam (makc) the search "Black Hole" could also be utilized for locating porn sites if you think about it.

Wow, it's surprizing

by **Martin** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:51 pm

Ahhh…makc is incognito. Tricky, tricky, tricky 8)

by **BMAONE23** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:45 pm

Well ckam (makc) the search "Black Hole" could also be utilized for locating porn sites if you think about it.

by **ckam** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:30 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:Perhaps it is the "Black Hole" text

Yes, this search pinpoints this thread. But... 11k people typing this query in google? I don't think so.

by **ckam** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:50 am

see I posted a link in this thread, and now their view count is over 14k. people, why don't you leave a message about where did you came from?

by **BMAONE23** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:30 pm

Perhaps it is the "Black Hole" text

by **Martin** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:10 pm

Perhaps the subject and add'l picture can

by **ckam** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:29 pm

I did, and my best find is http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=760 with 13k, but hey look at its title. The title of this thread cannot explain its view number.

by **Martin** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:16 pm

Scroll down and there is another thread with 14,000 views.

by **ckam** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:27 pm

naaah, I think some of you has dropped a link to his post somewhere. what else? can you guess a general query that pops this thread up in top 10 google results?

by **BMAONE23** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:43 pm

Perhaps It's just popular imagry, or the counter might be off???

I think Orion is a popular attraction because it's easily recognizable in the night sky.

I like to see any image of the area that might capture more light than my eyes allow.

by **Martin** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:41 pm

Well, it has that many views because that’s how many people have viewed it.

Do you want to see the 2nd image that was passed on to me from Rick w/SSRO? I did dl to a host site but it has since expired. I suppose I could do it again if you would like to see it

by **orin stepanek** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:32 pm

It keeps finding it's way back.

Orin

by **ckam** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:55 am

does anybody know how this thread got 10503 views? I can't find what links here.

by **BMAONE23** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:24 pm

I believe the original posted image:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060221.html
is oriented with a 90deg top to left rotation (counterclockwise).

The horsehead at the bottom middle has a small star below and left of it and another star left and slightly above it. The star that is left and slightly above the horsehead is the left most star in Orions belt. The brightest star above and left of the one by the horsehead is the center belt star. The area in question, on the right side of the original image, sits below the belt stars in the full image of Orion, in the knife.

by **Martin** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:22 pm

I see it now -thank you for remembering the discussion and my request for more images.

How do these images compare to the original? I can't seem to match these up to the original posted image:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060221.html

I am navigationally lost!!!

by **BMAONE23** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:48 pm

Here is another great Orion image. It really shows what can only be seen with photography.

http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-16e.jpg

by **BMAONE23** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:46 pm

The image has two different sides, both showing the same exact region of space at the same scale. On the right side image, the Visible light image, You will notice a bright blue star at the 12:00 position. Then below and left @ 11:00, there is a group of 3 stars. The star on the right of this small group has a lens flare that is traveling towards the southeast. The flare crosses a black area. That is the area in the image of the original post that appears to resemble a hole.

If you view the largest available image attached

http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-16c.jpg

and pan between the Visible image and the Infrared image you will notice that those bright blue stars now appear to be almost green and the black cloud is not visible with heat imaging so it must be cold dust.

by **Martin** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:26 pm

BMAONE23 nice update -ty

I can't seem to locate area in question -is it me or is it not captured in this photo?

by **BMAONE23** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:08 pm

Here is a good image showing what is there

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/re ... -16c.shtml

by **Martin** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:09 pm

by **Martin** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:10 pm

Your right Orin it doesn't clear much up. However, it does confirm something that resembles a "clearing" of material is present -I think

It is a very nice picture. I thank Rick w/SSRO for sharing it with us. I will save for later desktop image

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Environs of Horsehead Nebula (APOD 21 Feb 2006)

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