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- Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:24 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon Meets Morning Star (2012 Aug 24)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3428
Re: APOD: Moon Meets Morning Star (2012 Aug 24)
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about that in this case, Chris. Thanks for replying though.
- Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon Meets Morning Star (2012 Aug 24)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3428
Re: APOD: Moon Meets Morning Star (2012 Aug 24)
Chris: I get it, but the photo was of a particular perspective from South Korea (and could be seen in Eastern Asia), which was on the 24th for the locals. Just seems respectful when talking about that particular event, which was location specific, to use the local date.
- Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon Meets Morning Star (2012 Aug 24)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3428
Re: APOD: Moon Meets Morning Star (2012 Aug 24)
Actually, the Moon-Venus occultation took place on the morning of August 14th, by Korean time.
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:30 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: APOD assessment poll #5
- Replies: 105
- Views: 112429
Re: APOD assessment poll #5
It's one of my home pages that come up every time I open my browser. I don't want to miss any of them!
- Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Around the World in 90 Minutes (2011 Nov 21)
- Replies: 82
- Views: 21440
Re: APOD: Around the World in 90 Minutes (2011 Nov 21)
There is something similar around 3:50 that I mentioned earlier. It is very strange because it really seems like it is some kind of water/cloud reflection, but I don't know how it could track the ground like that. Yes, it's the same kind of thing. I hadn't caught that one. My only explanation is so...
- Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Around the World in 90 Minutes (2011 Nov 21)
- Replies: 82
- Views: 21440
Re: APOD: Around the World in 90 Minutes (2011 Nov 21)
What is the circular light in the upper left of the screen from about 3:20 to 3:25? It can't be something on the Earth itself, since it's keeping pace with the ISS. It almost looks like a spotlight shining from the ISS but I can't imagine that's what it would be. Anyone know?
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Time Lapse Auroras Over Norway (2011 Mar 28)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7258
Re: APOD: Time Lapse Auroras Over Norway (2011 Mar 28)
Thanks bystander, I was able to find and see the amazingly beautiful video. It's just that that's not what shows up on the APOD page, yet no one else seems to be having this problem. Weird!
Edited: Figured it out! "Old tab fatigue." Opening a fresh tab did the trick. Thx bystander!
Edited: Figured it out! "Old tab fatigue." Opening a fresh tab did the trick. Thx bystander!
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Time Lapse Auroras Over Norway (2011 Mar 28)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7258
Re: APOD: Time Lapse Auroras Over Norway (2011 Mar 28)
Am I the only one who's getting the Cassini fly-by time-lapse movie on today's page instead of the Norway aurora?? The text description below it describes the Norway clips but the movie itself is the Cassini-Saturn fly-by that was posted a few weeks back.
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Where to get large hires NASA images
- Replies: 6
- Views: 845
Re: Where to get large hires NASA images
I was finally able to find all of these and more! And they have thumbnail browsing and hires formats, too. It takes a while to find what you're looking for, but they've got a huge library of images here: http://nasaimages.org Many thanks to the people who replied. Maybe this thread will help someone...
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Where to get large hires NASA images
- Replies: 6
- Views: 845
Re: Where to get large hires NASA images
If you have the ability to print in large size color yourself Like an HP4000 printer then here are many large size images http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/katalogos.php and contains 820+ pages with 16000+ images BMAONE23, thank you for the link. Their images all seem to be close-ups that focus on spec...
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Where to get large hires NASA images
- Replies: 6
- Views: 845
Re: Where to get large hires NASA images
Thank you, bystander. Much appreciated. I was only aware of one of those sites. They look promising for many images that can be helpful to my project. Unfortunately, Hubble doesn't seem to "do" Earth or the Moon. So I still need sources of high quality pics of the Earth and our Moon, if an...
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:29 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Where to get large hires NASA images
- Replies: 6
- Views: 845
Where to get large hires NASA images
I have been using NASA's public domain images on the web for a while. I now want to use them for some printed material (for a project that I believe is within NASA's usage guidelines). However, I'm having trouble finding many of the NASA images that I already have in lowres or small size images. I n...
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:01 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Lunar eclipse tonight (APOD 20 Feb 2008)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6064
Hi Bystander, Yes, I watched from around 9:15 until around 11:00 (maybe ever so slightly sooner), when I finally had to go inside and thaw out. Judging by the symmetry of the slightly brighter bottom edge, I probably went in when it was near or just after its closest to the midpoint of its journey t...
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Lunar eclipse tonight (APOD 20 Feb 2008)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6064
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Suggestion for APOD
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14659
Kjardine, I've often wondered why the folks behind various scifi series never thought of that. I think you're probably right about the special viewing ability on a starship bridge. We'll probably have individual ocular instruments (like Geordi on ST-TNG) that will do the same thing, too. I see what ...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Suggestion for APOD
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14659
Hmm... Not exactly your days of Polaroid snapshots, is it? :wink: Although... in terms of what's involved in putting the image together, it's probably not that far off! Fascinating stuff. I guess what I'm left still puzzled about is what that nebula would look like if I took the local space bus and ...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Suggestion for APOD
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14659
Thanks for replying, Bystander. It sounds like what I was hoping APOD would do would still have to be approximated manually (if that's a good word for it). From what you're saying, it seems there are very few actual raw color images. Would that not have changed with digital photography, though? I ca...
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:24 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Suggestion for APOD
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14659
Re: Suggestion for APOD
BMAONE23, you've got the idea. APOD did something similar not long ago (can't find it now) where there were 4 pics of the same thing, each showing a different colour and then the 3 colours put together to form a full colour picture. It was interesting but not quite what I was referring to. Hello Peg...
- Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Suggestion for APOD
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14659
Suggestion for APOD
I don't know if this will get back to the folks who decide what to choose for the APOD, but I'll post it here anyway. :D I would love to see an APOD that shows the difference between an untouched versus touched up pic of a galaxy or nebula, for example. So often we see that the pic is a "false ...
- Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Question about black holes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5417
Thanks very much for all your replies! :D Wow, I guess that sun must really be whipping around that black hole, to create enough motion to counterbalance the gravitational pull. Do all the stars near the centre of a spiral galaxy move that fast around the centre? I guess they must be or else they'd ...
- Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Question about black holes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5417
Question about black holes
I was left confused by the 23-Oct-05 APOD and its explanation. I was referred to this BB to find an answer. (Thanks Robert!) The APOD explanation talks about confirming the existence of a black hole at the centre of our galaxy by measuring the effect on a star that recently came within 17 light-hour...