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by daedalus
Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:18 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: light pollution
Replies: 12
Views: 3944

AZJames wrote:The most extraordinary sight, however, would be the 'nearby' galaxy. It would be like that scene near the end of the movie, Star Wars, where a spiral galaxy takes up much of night sky. :!:
Umm... isn't that what our Milky Way does, and we can barely see it?
by daedalus
Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:15 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Eggs standing straight up... (APOD 21 Sep 2008)
Replies: 27
Views: 14088

Too bad you folks can't get more amateur contributions. That recent solar eclipse photo was great. Shoot, I wish I had the equipment and skills to contribute something.
by daedalus
Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:08 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Eggs standing straight up... (APOD 21 Sep 2008)
Replies: 27
Views: 14088

Eggs standing straight up... (APOD 21 Sep 2008)

Sorry guys, but this just ain't cutting it for me. Slow day at the web site?

I don't mean to be obnoxious as I really dig the site and usually check in every day. But sometimes you folks put things up that look like you had a really hard time finding something that day.