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by Timaru_lad
Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:39 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
Replies: 17
Views: 28331

Re: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)

BMAONE23 wrote:Woo Hoo
Position 1259
2,954,021
3 planets and a Brown Dwarf
What, it actually gave a position other than number 1? That's strange. BTW I just got 37,276,051 in 500.2 years :-)
by Timaru_lad
Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:27 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
Replies: 17
Views: 28331

Re: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)

Hmmm, every score I register is number 1, so obviously it isn't :-( I did manage to get just over 28,000,000 in 500 years by adding only 1 planet, a dwarf star, which put the 1st planet into a stable tight elliptical orbit.
by Timaru_lad
Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:33 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: APOD assessment poll #8
Replies: 129
Views: 75055

Re: APOD assessment poll #8

Almost 12 years ago now, a friend sent me an amazing photo of the Earth at night. On that photo, which I still have to this day, it says "Astronomy picture of the day 2000 November 27" followed by the URL for the site. Being interested in astronomy I just had to check it out.
by Timaru_lad
Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:25 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
Replies: 338
Views: 56111

Re: Cause of Triple Sunrise (APOD 2009 August 4)

I see this effect all the time, and I can photograph it too. However it's cased by looking out through double glazed windows. It's even more stunning at night as you can get many relections....which I believe is cased by light bouncing back and forth between the layers of glass, and as there is a bl...
by Timaru_lad
Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:34 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Unusual Red Glow Over Minnesota (2009 Feb 17)
Replies: 201
Views: 49670

Re: Unusual Red Glow Over Minnesota (2009 February 17)

These would have to be clouds, but the unusual density is a mystery. The reason I say clouds is because if you look at the edges they are what you’d expect clouds to look like. I have seen many small red clouds at sunset, often mixed in with some darker gray clouds at the same altitude, so as far as...