Starship Asterisk*

Doum wrote:It may be better to ask cats for their opinions. Then we will know.

I somehow doubt that cats are any better equipped to definitively answer these questions about themselves than we are about ourselves.

My apologies. I see this question was already answered further down the list.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080910.html

I was wondering if some of the imaging experts in the fourm might be able to explain why some of the stars in the background show streaking from exposure times while others do not?

Bill Carney

I contacted Joel Hartman and with his kind permission I am posting his explanantion: <<Hi Bill, Thanks for your interest in the animation. The anomoly that you refer to is in fact an image artifact. It's caused by the way the images are matched before combining them into an animation. Because the im...

Please see the following APOD: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070415.html I have seen this APOD posted before but never seen anyone comment about the anomoly or image artifact or...?? affecting the star to the left of and below center. As the movie loops there a dark figure appears within the di...