Starship Asterisk*

Hello roberdj and vivian. Welcome to the forum. My best shot.....The tiger stripes are most likely cracks in the water ice surface caused by gravitational tidal forces. The cracking allows subsurface material, mainly water, to well up and reach the surface. Most liquid will evaporate quickly as it i...

Fair comments Chris, and very plausible. I'm delighted with the way you've added the sky representation to the image. Well done! Regards.

Art, could be city lights (though Thurso is rather small - population around 9000), except that the image's author specifically states "moon rays@Thurso Castle"; BTW image was uploaded to flickr on 11th April 2009. The Castle is about a mile NE of the Town centre. Based on Leo's orientatio...

Hi all. Although this is my first post on this forum, a forum covering what I consider to be the best astronomical image site on the web, I am not a newcomer to astronomy having enjoyed over 40 years of active "service". For a long time I've had a problem with art purporting to be truth. B...