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by RBA
Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:06 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Pleïades and California (2009 Nov 3)
Replies: 12
Views: 2219

Re: Pleïades and California (2009 Nov 3)

Well, first, there's 13 years between both images. The astrophoto gear amateurs use today has improved quite a bit from what they used 13 years ago. The first image was likely taken with a camera lens and film. The nebulosity was obviously already there but the film simply didn't capture it. It also...
by RBA
Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:51 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Pleïades and California (2009 Nov 3)
Replies: 12
Views: 2219

Re: Pleïades and California

250 moons is about what takes to fill the entire space in the image between the two objects, not 250 moons one after another forming a single line.
by RBA
Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:28 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: New APOD-based page (RSS, comments, votes, favorites, etc)
Replies: 9
Views: 3338

Interesting, just today an "RSS Feed" link appeared in the menu at the bottom of APOD. Maybe it was a wake up call! (whether it was, I'd love to think that way :-) Ah, that would have saved me some time to fetch the info instead of going the not so foolproof page-scrapping way. But I noti...
by RBA
Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:30 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: New APOD-based page (RSS, comments, votes, favorites, etc)
Replies: 9
Views: 3338

geckzilla wrote:I think the search function could use some improvements... for instance I searched for "mars" and it turned up zilch.
The search function had a glitch. It's (should be) fixed by now.
Thanks!
by RBA
Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:20 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: New APOD-based page (RSS, comments, votes, favorites, etc)
Replies: 9
Views: 3338

Hi RBA, don't let craterchains bug you. He probably thought you were a spammer of sorts. It's a nice app. Good work. :) Thanks. It's ok. Or perhaps it was the black background :-) As I mentioned, I asked Rob and Jerry first whether it would be ok to build this app, and since many people have been a...
by RBA
Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:54 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: New APOD-based page (RSS, comments, votes, favorites, etc)
Replies: 9
Views: 3338

New APOD-based page (RSS, comments, votes, favorites, etc)

Hi all, I'd like to let you know about APOD@coRank ( http://apod.corank.com/ ), a new service that basically adds to the APOD page a few nice features: - Each entry has its own page where you see a photo preview + full description, post comments, etc.. - Vote "up" the entries you like most...