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- Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Protostellar Outflows in Serpens (2024 Jun 27)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3015
Re: APOD: Protostellar Outflows in Serpens (2024 Jun 27)
It would have helped to label this image, as I can't tell from the text exactly what I'm looking at—confusing at best. I really like when APOD does "mouse-over" annotated images, that's a good compromise between clarity and the beautiful view without text labels. Haha, and I know you mean...
- Sun Jun 23, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Colors of Saturn from Cassini (2024 Jun 23)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10887
Re: APOD: The Colors of Saturn from Cassini (2024 Jun 23)
Beautiful! So we only get to see Titan's shadow on Saturn about once every 15 years, right? I was looking up in Stellarium and it looks like there will be several visible passes around this time next year.
- Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Gigantic Jets over Himalayan Mountains (2024 Jun 18)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12644
Re: APOD: Gigantic Jets over Himalayan Mountains (2024 Jun 18)
The image is striking (pun intended). The number of Jets is a good question. It appears that there are 5 with 2 converging and one (on the right) diverging. But, I am wondering what is the bright object in the middle of the frame? to answer that we need to recognize the star field. Is there a star ...
- Sun Jun 16, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star (2024 Jun 16)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8136
Re: APOD: Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star (2024 Jun 16)
Maybe I'm wrong, but that "jet" of material looks exactly like a low Reynolds number smoke simulation. I happen to have more than a decade of painful experience with numerical simulations of turbulence. The rule of thumb for analysis via Reynolds number is that you measure the characterist...
- Sun Jun 16, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Prominences and Filaments on the Sun... (2024 Jun 15)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6892
Re: APOD: Prominences and Filaments on the Sun... (2024 Jun 15)
"a multitude of planet-dwarfing active regions"
Since dwarf planets are dwarfed by planets, by the transitive property, these planet-dwarfing regions must be dwarf-planet-dwarfing!
Since dwarf planets are dwarfed by planets, by the transitive property, these planet-dwarfing regions must be dwarf-planet-dwarfing!
- Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2024 Jun 09)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5683
Re: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2024 Jun 09)
Another one: If it's blinking but appears too high to be an aircraft, or even more mystifying, if the blinking is irregular! - it's a tumbling satellite. Yep, and slow but steady brightness changes would likely be the giant tumbling rocket body stage left in orbit after releasing a satellite, I saw...
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6643
Re: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
I was thinking what Ann has labeled object 8 is a dusty galaxy, and I thought I saw several dusty looking galaxies while zoomed into this image... but this is NIRCam, and when it takes pictures around the local milky way, it makes dust look transparent. So is this light really so distant that it use...
- Thu May 30, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Lunar Corona over Paris (2024 May 30)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1980
Re: APOD: A Lunar Corona over Paris (2024 May 30)
In a nearby alternate universe, this image shows the Olympic torch being lit at the top of the Eiffel Tower by orbital laser! Haha, I wonder what they will actually do, the 2024 summer games in Paris are just a month or two away.
- Sun May 26, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Solar Filament Erupts (2024 May 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1436
Re: APOD: A Solar Filament Erupts (2024 May 26)
If one is going to map grayscale to a color scale, why limit ourselves to just purple or orange, when we could have both? The perceptually uniform colormap "plasma" or "inferno" freely available from matplotlib might look really good, and they seem appropriately named.
- Sat May 25, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Manicouagan Impact Crater from Space (2024 May 25)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3157
Re: APOD: Manicouagan Impact Crater from Space (2024 May 25)
"When's your birthday?"
"April 11th"
"What year?"
"Every year!"
"April 11th"
"What year?"
"Every year!"
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Jupiter Diving (2024 May 19)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2470
Re: APOD: Jupiter Diving (2024 May 19)
Haha I agree it might be a little too close up. I used to do Jupiter sketching when I had access to an 8" refractor, always in black and white though, never attempted color. Sketching really adds to the observing experience, I think. Remember that blue storm that blew up briefly on Saturn? I th...
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The 37 Cluster (2024 May 14)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3036
Re: APOD: The 37 Cluster (2024 May 14)
Imagine if it started ticking down: "Astronomers report giant 37 in the sky is now a 36 - wait - this just in, it's 35!" Haha, feels like something that could've been in Clarke's "Nine Billion Names of God"
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Total Eclipse and Comets (2024 Apr 17)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2248
Re: APOD: Total Eclipse and Comets (2024 Apr 17)
You missed the "Of these" reference at the start of the sentence. I think the writer was just trying to point out that the comets and Mercury were not visible to the unaided eye. But yes, Jupiter was bright! It must be just out of frame in this image.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:22 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Total Totality (2024 Apr 12)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1699
Re: APOD: Total Totality (2024 Apr 12)
I saw this eclipse and the bright pink prominences were stunning, and it got me reading about H alpha emission. And after some reading, I feel betrayed by every "H alpha" filtered photo of the sun I have seen. Because the prominences appeared obviously PINK to human eyes, doesn't that mean...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:44 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Eclipse in Seven (2024 Apr 11)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1060
Re: APOD: Eclipse in Seven (2024 Apr 11)
I was also near Indianapolis, the thin cirrus blanketing the entire multi-state area made comet viewing likelihood near zero. The comet's position was about at 10 o'clock with respect to the sun from that location. Venus was bright, Jupiter was visible, and the prominences and corona were still stun...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon (2024 Feb 11)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1806
Re: APOD: Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon (2024 Feb 11)
I've always loved this image, but I feel compelled to make a "well, actually" comment, please forgive me, but I don't think the word "coincidence" is appropriate and instead one could conceivably substitute "inevitable" because of the caveat that we have a Full Moon, no...
- Thu Jun 09, 2022 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Ship Tracks over the Pacific Ocean (2022 Jun 08)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2604
Re: APOD: Ship Tracks over the Pacific Ocean (2022 Jun 08)
A key phrase here is "aerosol susceptibility" because broadly speaking, there is a large contrast from land to ocean for the amount of particulate matter floating in the air - aka the aerosol concentration is much higher over land than over the ocean. So running your SUV does not cause thi...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Great Conjunction: Saturn and... (2020 Dec 15)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11024
Re: APOD: Great Conjunction: Saturn and... (2020 Dec 15)
I plan on shooting images around local noon on the 21st, which for me will put them in the southeastern sky just past their point of being closest (which is slightly before they rise for me). Both of these objects are plenty bright to be telescopic objects in full daylight. I'll go for wider field ...
- Fri May 24, 2019 12:19 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moons Near Jupiter (2019 May 23)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8984
Re: APOD: Moons Near Jupiter (2019 May 23)
Has anyone ever been able to take a shot capturing all six of our system's largest moons (plus Jupiter and Saturn of course) in the same frame? Such a photo opp might have been possible back in April. If you're up late in the coming nights, you may want to pay attention to the waning gibbous moon —...
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula (2019 Mar 02)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3084
Re: APOD: NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula (2019 Mar 02)
+100 points to whoever came up with "arachnologically correct" ![Laughing :lol2:](./images/smilies/asterisk_laugh.gif)
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- Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4479
Re: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
The majority, perhaps all researchers who study weather and climate phenomena on other planets and moons were either conventionally trained meteorologists who transtitioned to this type of planetary science, or atmospheric physicists who did so. Of course, some of them now have students who are ent...
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4479
Re: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
I would like to defend the position that meteorology and astronomy (and history!) are different fields. Of course they are (well, history doesn't fit here simply because it's not a branch of science). Meteorology is a subdiscipline of atmospheric and oceanic physics, which is also a subdiscipline o...
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4479
Re: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
If I find a flint arrowhead, I assume the ancient archer is not nearby. If I decipher a neutrino in Sudbury, I assume the generating entity is not in the mine. In other words, because one perceives astronomical evidence does not allow one to classify it a s current events. That is why I disregard t...
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4479
Re: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over Kununurra (2019 Feb 25)
I would like to defend the position that meteorology and astronomy (and history!) are different fields. Perhaps we are all trying to express the importance of the history of the separation of scientific fields. I am a meteorologist and I appreciate APOD's expression of the fuzziness between these fi...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 4:00 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Comet Iwamoto and the Sombrero Galaxy (2019 Feb 09)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2676
Re: APOD: Comet Iwamoto and the Sombrero Galaxy (2019 Feb 09)
That's a fun picture. This is a fun one! There's an element here of the photographer "playing" with the light, and I think it's lovely! Seeing this comet and solar system light in the presence of such ancient light; it's like hearing a quick flute melody fitting perfectly with the deep no...