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- Thu May 10, 2012 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Green Flash and Super Moon (2012 May 10)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5042
Re: APOD: Green Flash and Super Moon (2012 May 10)
Can anyone explain why the APOD website features so few actual astronomical images (as in, taken by a research telescope) these days? There's a lot of moon photography, scenic pictures of conjunctions, montages, space shuttle nostalgia... Would it be possible to get back to actual images taken by t...
- Wed May 09, 2012 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shuttle Enterprise Over New York (2012 May 09)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6422
Re: APOD: Shuttle Enterprise Over New York (2012 May 09)
Very nice work. Thank you, Bill Ingalls.
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 (2012 Mar 25)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4947
Re: APOD: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 (2012 Mar 25)
And thanks, Chris.
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 (2012 Mar 25)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4947
Re: APOD: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 (2012 Mar 25)
Thanks Art, it's not exactly point and shoot then. I'm glad that we have scientist and astronomers on earth smart enough to figure all this stuff out. I never could even find anything on purpose with a small telescope using alt and az settings.
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 (2012 Mar 25)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4947
Re: APOD: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 (2012 Mar 25)
Another amazing Hubble image. Does anyone know how they aim the Hubble in all different directions to zero in on an image? Is someone on earth looking at a monitor and say ahh there's something "click"? Or does it automatically know how to find things by the light the images are transmitti...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Scale of the Universe Interactive (2012 Mar 12)
- Replies: 82
- Views: 437732
Re: APOD: The Scale of the Universe Interactive (2012 Mar 12
Wow!! What a trip.
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night (2012 Mar 05)
- Replies: 92
- Views: 69040
Re: APOD: Flying Over the Earth at Night (2012 Mar 05)
Wow! That's cool. Around the word in two and a half minutes. Thanks, APOD guys and of course the Astronauts
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Blue Marble Earth from Suomi NPP (2012 Jan 30)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9412
Re: APOD: Blue Marble Earth from Suomi NPP (2012 Jan 30)
Why do all Earth pictures that APOD posts must invariably be centered on the US? Is that a government requirement or something? http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030426.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020212.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010204.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960819.html http://apod...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands (2012 Jan 23)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5261
Re: APOD: Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands (2012 Jan 23)
I kinda rest my case
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands (2012 Jan 23)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5261
Re: APOD: Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands (2012 Jan 23)
A beautiful picture. I often wonder what kind of imagination our ancestors had that could see all these constellations and give them names that I suppose are used all around the world. They sure couldn't communicate like we do today. I suppose the earliest ones only had a stone tablet
- Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Wolf's Moon (2012 Jan 20)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5471
Re: APOD: The Wolf's Moon (2012 Jan 20)
Thanks Owlice for posting the link with all the moon names. I had no idea. In fact I was....er...moonstruck
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 (2012 Jan 07)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3550
Re: APOD: Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 (2012 Jan 07)
Thanks for the info and the link Ann. You da woMAN.
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 (2012 Jan 07)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3550
Re: APOD: Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 (2012 Jan 07)
What are the small orange dots scattered all over the page? I suppose galaxies far, far away?
- Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Full Sky Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 03)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3820
Re: APOD: A Full Sky Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 03)
I'll bet that was spooky back in the olden days when they thought God was coming down on them.
- Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Spot the Moon (2012 Jan 02)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5381
- Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: To Fly Free in Space (2012 Jan 01)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5785
Re: APOD: To Fly Free in Space (2012 Jan 01)
Wow! That's amazing. Just curious, if he threw a ball straight out would it go a few hundred yards and just stop or would it come back around in an hour and a half or so, and hit him in the back of the head? I know this is a silly question, but my curious mind would really like to know.
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy (2011 Dec 30)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 6560
Re: APOD: The Diner at the Center of the Galaxy (2011 Dec 30
Well, I guess it's a picture of an illustration. It's mind boggling whatever it is.
- Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Comet Lovejoy over Paranal (2011 Dec 28)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6093
Re: APOD: Comet Lovejoy over Paranal (2011 Dec 28)
Wow, thanks Guillaume for such a great picture and thanks Ann for the great lesson.
- Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Eclipsed Moon in the Morning (2011 Dec 24)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2132
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Red Moon Rising (2011 Dec 16)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3048
Re: APOD: Red Moon Rising (2011 Dec 16)
Very nice. Thanks, Oshin.
- Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Vesta Rocks (2011 Dec 10)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2211
Re: APOD: Vesta Rocks (2011 Dec 10)
I just love this site. You don't just see thin slices of meteorite through a polarized microscope everyday.
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Light Echoes from V838 Mon (2011 Dec 04)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3768
Re: APOD: Light Echoes from V838 Mon (2011 Dec 04)
The Lord worketh in strange ways
- Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: As Above, So Below (2011 Dec 03)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1726
Re: APOD: As Above, So Below (2011 Dec 03)
Very nice. Thanks, Boris.
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 7822 in Cepheus (2011 Nov 16)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4329
Re: APOD: NGC 7822 in Cepheus (2011 Nov 16)
How about just going outside in real life and looking up at itdon.s wrote:How about showing some if these pic's in absolute real color as they appear in real life?
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: In Through and Beyond Saturns Rings (2011 Oct 26)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3928
Re: APOD: In Through and Beyond Saturns Rings (2011 Oct 26)
Just simply WOW! Thanks Cassini Team.