by Ann » Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:30 am
johnnydeep wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:31 pm
Granted, it's the day after Christmas, but where has everyone gone?
I'm very sad to say that Orin Stepanek seems to be gone. He used to post faithfully on every APOD, but he hasn't been heard from since December 2. I made
a thread for him in the Open Space forum, which unfortunately got very little traffic.
As for myself, I comment much more rarely than I used to, because nowadays the APODs focus on cosmic phenomena that don't interest me all that much. I love galaxies, and I'm very happy to see other galaxies than the Milky Way, and I like blue star clusters (obviously). I also love stunningly beautiful and colorful RGB images in general. Well, the only galaxy images that have been featured recently are the ones from December 21, December 01, November 22, November 13, November 10 and November 02. And the only recent blue cluster APOD was the one from December 09. As for beautiful colorful images, the loveliest picture I have seen at Starship Asterisk* was this one by Robert G. Lyons/Telescope Live:
I have, of course, commented on these APODs and a few others, but I haven't commented as much as I used to.
I hope that the rest of you, those of you who love the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, asteroids, auroras, closeups of meteorites, Hubble palette nebulas, JWST weird color galaxy cluster images and pictures of spacecraft, take it upon yourselves to comment on these images! Please?
Ann
[quote=johnnydeep post_id=335902 time=1703622686 user_id=132061]
Granted, it's the day after Christmas, but where has everyone gone?
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I'm very sad to say that Orin Stepanek seems to be gone. He used to post faithfully on every APOD, but he hasn't been heard from since December 2. I made [url=https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=43486]a thread for him[/url] in the Open Space forum, which unfortunately got very little traffic.
As for myself, I comment much more rarely than I used to, because nowadays the APODs focus on cosmic phenomena that don't interest me all that much. I love galaxies, and I'm very happy to see other galaxies than the Milky Way, and I like blue star clusters (obviously). I also love stunningly beautiful and colorful RGB images in general. Well, the only galaxy images that have been featured recently are the ones from December 21, December 01, November 22, November 13, November 10 and November 02. And the only recent blue cluster APOD was the one from December 09. As for beautiful colorful images, the loveliest picture I have seen at Starship Asterisk* was this one by Robert G. Lyons/Telescope Live:
[attachment=0]Christmas Tree Cluster Cone Nebula and Fox Fur Nebula Robert G Lyons Telescope Live.png[/attachment]
I have, of course, commented on these APODs and a few others, but I haven't commented as much as I used to.
I hope that the rest of you, those of you who love the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, asteroids, auroras, closeups of meteorites, Hubble palette nebulas, JWST weird color galaxy cluster images and pictures of spacecraft, take it upon yourselves to comment on these images! Please?
Ann