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That's a truly awesome timelapse!

I voted 'No' but maybe I have seen it before and simply forgotten, given that I've been a regular APOD visitor since the late '90's.

Another really nice capture Alex - well done!
Hope to see you down at The Briars again one day soon.

Cheers,
Rohan

Never seen Andromeda, but it is my #1 on my bucket list of deep sky targets.
I live right down the 'bottom' of Australia, so M31 is below our northern horizon, so I always love seeing pictures of our 'cosmic neighbor'.

My first thought was that it looks like a pillow, so I'll say Pillow Nebula.
But I'm sure with different filters etc., it could be seen as something else entirely.

Quite a humbling image when you think about it - to me even more so than other earth images such as the famous Blue Marble, I think because of the immense distance away from us that this images has been taken.

More interested in science in general - possibly not.
But more interested in astronomy specifically - without a doubt!
Keep up the good work.

terrastro wrote:I use these two web pages as a guide:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/forecast.html
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/OverviewS.html

Thank you!

Cheers,
Rohan

It was my first visual Aurora and I was overwhelmed with emotions. Alex Cherney Awesome imagery Alex, congratulations! Oh man, I wish I had have known about this. I've always wanted to see an aurora (it's #1 on my 'bucket list') and I only live a few kilometres away from Flinders in the outer SE su...

Thanks for that explanation - I can now see some semblance of a witch's head... just!

G'day all.
Pardon my ignorance here but I cannot, for the life of me, identify the "witches head" in this APOD?
Should I be standing on my head to see it, or perhaps on my left ear (yes, I've tried both!) but still can't seem to see anything resembling a witch...
Thanks in advance.

After the mention of a USA flag (be it on the spacesuit or elsewhere) I went back and had another look... but couldn't find anything.
So I'll stick by my original count: 4x Canadian flags and 1x Japanese flag.

Cheers!

I didn't notice those bad pixels till I had already sent in my image... Ahh, thanks for the confirmation Chris - thought it may have been special indicators of some sort! As for the rotation, my bad...I connected the camera and forgot to rotate it back into a proper position...blame it on the late ...

owlice wrote:Are these what you see?

I'm sure one of those dots is a small cross - but yes, this is what I am referring to.
Any ideas why they might be there?

It is an extraordinary picture of the eclipse. Agreed - my compliments to the photographer. :) When I clicked on the image to view the largest resolution version, I noticed some small dots and an 'x' above and to the right of the centre of the moon. I would be interested to know what these markings...

15,000 years - wow!
Thanks for the responses.

I'm just curious to know...
If a manned space flight were launched into outer space, how long would it take the rocket/capsule/module (sorry, not sure of the correct terminology) to travel one light year?