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- Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 253 Close-Up (2008 Oct 02)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3994
Welcome, bentsn! :) I downloaded and viewed the large - 14 MB - file, and the blurred areas are evident in that image as well. Maybe it's something to do with the lens, or perhaps when the images were put together..? The link I used was this one: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/200...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 253 Close-Up (2008 Oct 02)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3994
APOD: NGC 253 Close-Up (2008 Oct 02)
NGC 253 fuzzy areas? (APOD 02 Oct 2008)
Images like today's:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081002.html
almost make me want to sign up for a 'Digg' account.....
Breathtaking! 8)
Images like today's:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081002.html
almost make me want to sign up for a 'Digg' account.....
Breathtaking! 8)
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:59 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Eggs standing straight up... (APOD 21 Sep 2008)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13909
Anyone else find it ironic that while dispelling one myth bout eggs APOD promotes another- namely that day and night are equal on September 22nd? Check out your ephemeris and then the USNO site (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/equinoxes.php) about the equinoxes. And here's an expansion of that: Th...
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:47 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Best place? (APOD 22 Sep 2008)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3185
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn's Anthe Arc (Background stars) (APOD 10 Sep 2008)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3843
Re: anthe arc
i understand the long duration (32 sec) exposure causing the star streaks, but that doesn't explain the streaks going in different directions. the streaks should be either all going in the same direction or no streak at all if the camera is moving toward those stars... tom Out of curiosity, have yo...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:44 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn's Anthe Arc (Background stars) (APOD 10 Sep 2008)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3843
Taken from here The general brightness of the image (along with the faint horizontal banding pattern) results from the long exposure time of 32 seconds required to capture the extremely faint ring arc and the processing needed to enhance its visibility (which also enhances the digital background noi...
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: A small complaint about APOD
- Replies: 51
- Views: 17012
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: A small complaint about APOD
- Replies: 51
- Views: 17012
FYI, PaulM: (this is a post by one of the maintainers of the APOD) I posted that video to APOD. About once a month or so, APOD posts an image that is not strictly related to the classical definition of astronomy or space science. Reasons for this are several, including broadening APOD's reader base...
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:35 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Sorry for our outage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3465
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:52 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: total solar elcipse
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5589
Just because it's hard to believe, doesn't make it any less authentic of an image. See here:I dont believe the Saturn total eclipse...
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329
and here:
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230
Extremely cool! 8)
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:32 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: total solar elcipse
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5589
Try this: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros.html It's not the exact link I was looking for, but it does have some good info. IIRC, the moon doesn't cover the sun fully during every eclipse. There are what are known as 'annular eclipses', which the sun looks like a thick-ish band or ring a...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:09 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Is the death of 'baby red' so unusual? (APOD 24 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5469
Astrolabe - that wikipedia video link is pretty amazing! Earlier this month, when the spots were going to merge/collide/whatnot, I had tried to find some video of the motion of Jupiter's clouds, and the search results that google gave me were rather dated, contained broken links, and several sites w...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:04 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
I guess I'm lucky I can't view the flash image since our work computer wont allow us to upgrage to version 9 without Admin permission..... =D hehehehe INDIGO SUNRISE : You have some pretty GREAT comebacks... those are funny to read though. =b And APOD will never ever have a shortage of space images...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:02 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
And as for the 'whiners' comment from Indigo Sunrise. How very dare you.... I dare very well, thank you much. You can't say it's not true. People whine about the silliest stuff. Is it going to matter tomorrow what the APoD was for today? Or a week from now? A year? 100 yrs from now? Is it really go...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
I'd rather have an old star picture..... Sure you would. Then you - or someone - would start (another) thread that talks about how 'we've all seen that image before' and 'why can't TPTB at APoD find something new, that we haven't seen 100x before', etc., and the whining would continue ...... Lord.....
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
While the video may be appealing, and interesting, it has nothing to do with Astronomy. Not even a little bit. Not an ounce. Not an iota. Nothing. It was disappointing to come to the site and see something totally irrelevant. It doesn't make me angry, or cause me to want to throw things, but it did...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
What a waste of a day it has been on APOD today. That is your opinion; you're entitled to it. But you know what they say about opinions.... Admittedly, some left-wingers might consider it good day.... Please, spare us all your politically-minded assessment. There is no place for it here. Realistica...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34829
Y'all are a bunch of whiners. :lol: (Except geonuc and Astrokeener) What does it matter if for ONE DAY the APoD isn't exactly astronomy-related? Sure, I can see the point that y'all come here for astronomy items and learning and all else, but to be fair, there are a LOT more astronomy sites that'll ...
- Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Southern Cross, southern sky, Gacrux (APOD 07 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5133
- Wed May 28, 2008 11:02 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Carina Nebula Dark Clouds, GHOSTLY&SPOOKY (28 May 2008)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9201
- Mon May 12, 2008 2:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Retrograde Mars - the scale (APOD 11 May 2008)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3733
- Mon May 12, 2008 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The photo for May 12, 2008 is not visible
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6945
Indigo_Sunrise wrote: Confused - Case most likely went to the link that is positioned beneath the image - if it had been there..? Case indicated that the page was working for Case. Are you agreeing with Case that the page is working for you? If so, then that contradicts your other comment(s). If th...
- Mon May 12, 2008 10:53 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The photo for May 12, 2008 is not visible
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6945
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that the image didn't seem to appear for. Hopefully TPTB will see these comments and correct the problem. Confused - Case most likely went to the link that is positioned beneath the image - if it had been there..? (Case, care to share how you found the image link?)
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: IC 2948: The Running Chicken Nebula (APOD 18 Apr 2008)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3807
Sounds like golbules are part of starforming regions Right, I got that they are both most likely star-forming regions, but was curious whether there were multiple names for the same thing, or if they were slightly or majorly different. Thank you both for the links. Wikipedia is where I started look...