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This is interesting: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~dbl/cfdsdisk/ ... countries/

Hi Forty,

I never implied that it was a real image of the earth. Thanks for the info anyway.

Cheers,

Paul

Here's another attempt at creating a new earthlights image. This one's a little larger and almost totally night. I'll add the final dark strip when I get the opportunity to capture it. All sections of the image are from the past couple of weeks. Of course, it will never be perfect because the cloud ...

RonDavis wrote:Fascinating though this picture is, I hope APOD is not going to fall into nothing but recycling old pictures.

I agree.

Sorry about that, Andy. Darned dot! Thanks for sorting it out, Case. I see you're from Yorkshire, Andy. Lovely place; lovely people. I'm from the north east, myself, but I studied in Leeds back in the early 70s, then lived in Headingley for 4 years before leaving the UK to teach at universities in G...

You are right, Jose. This is a wonderful, yet extremely outdated, image. 6 years ago, the population of the earth was a little over 6 billion. Today it is approaching the 6.8 billion mark. An updated image would look quite different. While we're waiting for one, you might like to take a look at this...

What the hell!

No worries, Doum. My sense of humor will always remain intact 8)

I just want to say that recent pictures of the day have been truly excellent. Today's close-up of NGC 253 is superb. Thank you

Paul

emc ... looks like I'm not one of those light bulbs. Sorry to disappoint you. Andy ... thanks for your support. I love APOD and will continue to visit everyday, even if the moderators and their minions go on the defensive when someone complains. No matter what anyone says, this is not a good thing. ...

Thanks, Pat. You are the first person who has provided a constructive and civilized response to my original criticism, and the first person who has asked me to stay rather than hint that I should leave. Most of the others have been condescendingly rude. Talk about freedom of speech! The past two day...

"a tiny individual beating that slightly less tiny upside down horse"? Hum ... I don't know that one. Please explain what it means.

Paul

Oh boy! ... I feel so sorry for you guys. Can't any of you take constructive criticism without getting touchy and defensive? I hate to bring you all back down to earth, but have you ever heard of parameters? I'll continue to visit and enjoy the APOD website, but I have no interest whatsoever in watc...

At least you stayed on topic this time. Thanks for that. Unfortunately, Art felt the need to be rude again. I have no use for that. Once again, I find myself amongst a group of people who are either incapable of handling constructive criticism or are too blinkered to notice when something needs to b...

Well done, Art! That was a nice piece of self-promoting and a good attempt at distracting from the original point of this thread. With respect, if you think a video of people dancing is connected with astronomy, then maybe it is you who is missing something and not I. I think you know full well what...

Thank you, BMAONE23. Do you have any idea how I can contact the people who run APOD so that I can explain my feelings to them?

Regards,

Paul

I accept that some members have posed the question, but I disagree that the 'bird' picture is necessarily what the sky would look like if the earth were located around a star in the middle of a large globular cluster. The objects in the photo are birds, not stars. If the earth were located around a ...

I visit the APOD website everyday and regularly access the archives. Recently, however, I have noticed that more and more non-astronomy-releated pictures are appearing on AOPD, and this, in my opinion, is inappropriate. Granted, artistic photos of mountains and birds and clouds etc are all very nice...