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- Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:46 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn's Rings from the Other Side (APOD 09 Jun 2008)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2272
Saturn's Rings from the Other Side (APOD 09 Jun 2008)
Re the APOD of June 9 2008 'Saturn's Rings from the Other Side' http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080609.html It's a very nice image but the full image that is brought up when clicking a cursor over the APOD (or through the above picture link in the explanation to the APOD) is even better. Even tho...
- Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:31 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Mars Soil Sample Ready to Analyze (APOD 08 Jun 2008)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7241
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Dark River of Antares (APOD 03 Jun 2008)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9275
If it had not been for the Pipe Nebula link in the explanation I don't think I would have guessed that the Pipe Nebula is the brownish area with black strips that runs along and just in from the left edge. Thanks Case for noting that the very bright object is Jupiter. I wondered what it was (I first...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Yuri's Planet (APOD 12 Apr 2008)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8251
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Yuri's Planet (APOD 12 Apr 2008)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8251
Re: Yuri's Planet
When was it taken and from what spacecraft? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080412.html Image Credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew. Yuri I. Malenchenko (commander) and Edward T. Lu (flight engineer). Launch: April 25, 2003, 10:54 p.m. CDT (Houston time, not Baikonur time) Docking: April 28, 2003, 12:56...
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:53 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Horsehead history, fusion, orientation, repeat (06 Apr 2008)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7481
Re: Why repeat APODs?
I have been looking at the APOD for many years now and have no problem with images being shown again. There will also be viewers that have never seen them. I think good images are worth repeating.
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: When Particles Collide (APOD 25 Feb 2008)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 19919
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Lunar eclipse tonight (APOD 20 Feb 2008)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5899
Re: No eclipse visible
Nothing here in Yorkshire, England. It was well overcast last night and raining this morning. :cry: It's a great shame as we've just had a string of cold clear nights. It will have to be 2015 then! :) Yes it was just typical that it was cloudy for the eclipse night here in West Yorkshire! It also a...
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Light Echoes from V838 Mon, diameter? (APOD 03 Feb 2008)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 25221
Re: diameter of light echo
Shouldn't the diameter be twelve light years? The light will have traveled six light years in each direction from the star since six years ago. Unless the picture is three years old - it doesn't say - but it usually says the picture is old when that's the case. Cool picture. Looks like fur! The ima...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Mercury / MESSENGER APOD of 2008 January 16 Updated
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14365
- Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth at Twilight (APOD 27 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5406
- Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Pillars in Triffid Nebula (APOD 26 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2060
I am also confused with the mention in the explanation that the star at the end of the jet is being stripped of its gas by radiation from a tremendously bright star off screen to the upper right. In the information that is brought up when clicking on both of the 'above picture' links in the explanat...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Stars and Dust through Baade's Window (APOD 19 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4124
I am also very confused as to what is Baade's Window in the image. Is it the small dark area just below a bright object in the centre about a quarter of the way in from the right edge? The description with the image in Stephane Guisard's website however only adds to my confusion. This APOD is a good...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Holographic Principle (APOD 16 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7228
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula (APOD 31 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1354
Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula (APOD 31 Oct 2007)
The "above-pictured Ghost Head Nebula" link in the explanation brings up image PIA04226 in the JPL Photojournal website. In the information to PIA04226 it states that image was produced from 3 images taken on March 28 2000. However, elsewhere in the Photojournal website it states that PIA0...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:40 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Noctilucent Clouds Over Sweden (2007 Oct 28)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3411
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Crescent Saturn, listen to rings; Pandora AWOL? (23 Oct 07)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8513
I could not make out Janus nor Pandora in the APOD image and was only able to see them in the 572.6kB version of PIA08388 in the JPL Photojournal website that was brought up through a link in the explanation(I did not even attempt to try the 44.11MB version). To say Pandora is faint is an understate...
- Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Iapetus ooopppsss! (4000 km above) (APOD 15 Sep 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1913
Re: Too 3-D
The two images are too far apart to be seen as one clearly (using 3-D glasses), at least for me. The 3D effect did work for me using red/blue glasses but it was not one of the best 3D images that I've seen on an APOD as there seemed to be too much red to the left. However, on clicking Patrick Vantu...
- Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula (APOD 22 Aug 2007)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3849
I'm still unsure which is R136. However, a little to the left of center there is a bright star with image spikes (presumably a foreground star) and immediately to its left is what looks like a small cluster of bright stars. On using the zoom facility that group then looks much more impressive and so...
- Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Tentacles of the Tarantula Nebula (APOD 22 Aug 2007)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3849
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:33 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Request for metric values in explanations.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11059
Inches, feet, yards, metres (meters in the US), light years, parsecs.... It seems that nobody uses such as perches/poles, furlongs, chains anymore. :lol: Ah well, a flagon of ale will do me nicely right now. Cheers all. :D Incidentally, what happens to all the light when it meets the edge of the Uni...
- Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Monitoring M2-9 (APOD 18 June 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2210
- Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:46 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Monitoring M2-9 (APOD 18 June 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2210
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: '3D Full Moon' (APOD 02 June 2007)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3296
'3D Full Moon' (APOD 02 June 2007)
Using red and blue glasses the 3D effect of this APOD is superb. It is probably the best such 3D effect I've ever seen. Thanks to Laurent Laveder for an excellent APOD.
I tried the cross eyed method but I find that very hard to do and achieve a result.
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I tried the cross eyed method but I find that very hard to do and achieve a result.
- Thu May 24, 2007 11:50 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Orange Sun Oozing (APOD 22 May 2007)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2959
Thanks Qev and BMAONE23. I tried the suggestion of opening Internet Explorer (when I was already signed onto AOL) and, after doing a search to find the APOD, I was then able to see the movie through both the AVI and Quick Time version links (both were exactly the same in all respects, so perhaps Rea...