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- Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:26 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: In the Center of Saturns North Polar... (2012 Dec 04)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5449
Re: APOD: In the Center of Saturns North Polar... (2012 Dec
Anybody else see this guy?
- Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:18 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Time
- Replies: 72
- Views: 19013
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:40 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Time
- Replies: 72
- Views: 19013
- Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:38 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Mars and Orion Over Monument Valley (APOD 25 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5486
- Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Strange object (APOD 29 Nov 2005)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2132
- Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: whats this?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5942
- Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:52 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Flash at MK
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8003
- Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:25 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Siding Spring Black Blob
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6085
I would definitely say that it is a moth, judging by its shape, but what's this? http://nightskylive.net/sd/sd050401/sd050401ut120130a.jpg It seems moth-shaped, but it's not actually an object on the lens unless it's transluscent. Notice that there are also two similar dots above and to the right of...
- Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:53 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Cerro Pachon glint
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3875
Cerro Pachon glint
Something very strange popped up on a Cerro Pachon image at 4:32 am UT on the morning of April 2: http://nightskylive.net/cp/cp050402/cp050402ut043201a.jpg It's not an Iridium flare or a satellite pass (according to Heavens Above). Note how distinct and extremely bright the streak is. Meteors, even ...
- Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:03 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Voynich manuscript discussion: 2005 January 22 - NEW TOPIC
- Replies: 35
- Views: 32348
Face artistry?
Throughout art history, the drawing of human characteristics (such as faces) changed dramatically. If you look at the face on the Voynich Manuscript, you'll see that it's very unrealistic. This may suggest that - if drawn by a professional - the manuscript could've been made at some time between the...
- Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:05 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What is this black thing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5819
Looking over the images and movie again, I have found a few more minute details that could have something to do with uncovering the object's origin. Here's a list of what's been mentioned so far (plus my new discoveries), listed from most likely to most outlandish, starting with most likely. Click h...
- Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:00 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What is this black thing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5819
What is this black thing?
A "black beast" (quoting Boldra) made an appearance on the Siding Spring concam on Saturday the 19th. Here it is: http://nightskylive.net/sd/sd050319/sd050319ut174033a.jpg What is this? It seems to move slowly throughout the night, as seen in the movie. It looks like the shadow of somethin...
- Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:57 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Wise Observatory (WO) CONCAM status
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8157
Re: WO CONCAM
Good! Finally some light pollution awareness.nbrosch wrote:The local council also promised to add shielding to prevent light from being emitted skyward.
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- Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: What makes nebulae red?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9318
What makes nebulae red?
The 3/14/05 APOD and a multitude of other images have made me wonder: What makes so many nebulae red?
Does anyone know?
Does anyone know?
- Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:24 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Strange similarity...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14916
- Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:48 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Strange similarity...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14916
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:55 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Unidentified streak on NSL image
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4029
Unidentified streak on NSL image
I was searching the NSL image archive for Haleakala when I came across this strange image: http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl040911/hl040911ut074117a.jpg Notice the streak - which looks like a satellite streak - going along from north to east near the edge of the image. On heavens-above.com, there were n...
- Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: A color concam?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7768
- Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: A color concam?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7768
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Voynich manuscript discussion: 2005 January 22
- Replies: 280
- Views: 158214
Messy English or Latin?
I am thinking that the manuscript may be written in a decipherable language such as English or Latin, but in a messy or varied form. You can make out a few English letters, like a, c, e, d, and g. Also, some words that look like "and", "God", and "sun" can be seen. The ...
- Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: A color concam?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7768
A color concam?
Maybe for the new concam-3 in development, you could make the camera images in color instead of black and white. This way, you could see the different colors of the stars and other phenomena in the sky, like auroras. I think it would also help determine what the occasional U.F.O. is in the concam im...
- Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Jupiter's rings
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10024
Jupiter's rings
The 1/9/05 APOD made me think of a question that probably many people could benefit from. What magnification in a telescope do you need to see Jupiter's rings?
- Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Reflection, refraction, or something else? (UPDATED)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4710
Reflection, refraction, or something else? (UPDATED)
I was looking at the Haleakala concam when I noticed multiple strange streaks of light near the center of the image. It looks like something on the lens of the camera may be catching the light and refracting it, but I'm no camera expert. http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl050107/hl050107ut133606a.jpg Plea...
- Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:55 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Asteroid 2004 MN4 on collision course with earth in 2029
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3591
2029 impact ruled out by NASA
If you check the NASA Near Earth Object web page , it reads, Jeff Larsen and Anne Descour of the Spacewatch Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, were able to detect and measure very faint images of asteroid 2004 MN4 on archival images dating to 15 March 2004. These observations extended the observed ti...
- Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Siding Spring shut-down?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3807
Siding Spring shut-down?
:?: I am not an expert at determining the problems with concams, so I am asking - what has been going on with the Siding Spring concam? The images that I have looked at seem to be negative images and/or are washed out. Also, the camera seems to have completely shut down on the night of December 30, ...