Here's my updated version as to how "Starry Night" might have been
painted after corporations launch tens of thousands of Low Earth Orbit
satellites.
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- Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (2019 Oct 23)
- Replies: 16
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Re: APOD: Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (2019 Oct 23)
Here's my updated version as to how "Starry Night" might have been
painted after corporations launch tens of thousands of Low Earth Orbit
satellites.
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:40 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: 1901 Photograph: The Orion Nebula (2019 Aug 17)
- Replies: 25
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Re: APOD: 1901 Photograph: The Orion Nebula (2019 Aug 17)
I also compared the 1901 image of Orion to one of my recent ones. Full details at: https://calgary.rasc.ca/orion_star_movement.htm I found: 9 stars (circled in red) that had moved more than any others (the "brighter" star image is the position in 2019, and the "darker" is from 19...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:59 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: What do you think the bright spots on Ceres are?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 276270
Re: What do you think the bright spots on Ceres are?
Neon - definitely lots of bright Neon light pollution.
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:35 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Great Comet of 1680 Over Rotterdam (2013 Oct 28)
- Replies: 54
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Re: APOD: The Great Comet of 1680 Over Rotterdam (2013 Oct 2
I'm pretty sure Anthony Barreiro got it right. Given the angle the comet's tail makes with the horizon, I'd say it's a view to the west-southwest after sunset on approximately Christmas Eve 1680 (Gregorian calendar). The only time the Moon was to the "left" of the 1680 comet was after peri...
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:36 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Strange LASCO C3 image from 2005/02/02 15:18
- Replies: 0
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Strange LASCO C3 image from 2005/02/02 15:18
Here's one for the "What the heck is this?" APOD category. This LASCO C3 image from 2005/02/02 15:18 : http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_small/20050202_1518_c3.gif http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_small/20050202_1518_c3.gif has a strange swa...