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- Fri May 05, 2023 2:13 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: neufer Memorial
- Replies: 21
- Views: 49776
Re: neufer Memorial
I was MIA from this forum for several years and only just discovered this heartbreaking news. I used to come here and read the discussions every day, and always looked forward to whatever baffling tangent Neufer's brain would lead me down for the day. I signed the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt tha...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: ISON, Mars, Regulus (2013 Oct 17)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6072
Re: APOD: ISON, Mars, Regulus (2013 Oct 17)
I think it may be worth noting that some monitors might not be capable of seeing Leo I, for instance, at work I have a monitor used in conjunction with a laptop, and the monitor can't see it no matter how much I fiddle with the brightness/contrast/color, but the laptop screen shows it just fine. Fo...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: ISON, Mars, Regulus (2013 Oct 17)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6072
Re: APOD: ISON, Mars, Regulus (2013 Oct 17)
In the explanation to the image it states "Just above Regulus, the very faint smudge of light is actually the Leo I dwarf galaxy, 800,000 light-years away and almost lost in the glare of the bluish hued bright star.". It must be very faint as I cannot make it out, so I wonder if anybody e...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Venus, Zodiacal Light, and the... (2013 Oct 18)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2600
Re: APOD: Venus, Zodiacal Light, and the... (2013 Oct 18)
Woohoo! I don't have to click through 4 links to get to APOD anymore! Everyone else I know just seems to be glad the panda cam is back, glad that I'm not the only one who missed NASA. ![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Oh, and beautiful pic by the way, love these types of shots.
![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Oh, and beautiful pic by the way, love these types of shots.
- Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: X rays from Supernova Remnant SN 1006 (2013 Apr 23)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 14170
Re: APOD: X rays from Supernova Remnant SN 1006 (2013 Apr 23
This might be redundant, but I didn't see specific wavelength / energy clearly listed. To add some detail to the the above image link, I believe that red, green, and blue correspond to 0.5-0.8 keV (mostly, K lines of O), 0.8-2.0 keV (mostly, K lines of Ne, Mg, and Si), and 2.0-5.0 keV (mostly, sync...
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Moon's Saturn (2013 Apr 07)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4400
Re: APOD: The Moon's Saturn (2013 Apr 07)
I absolutely love this image! Quite happy that this one ended up as a repeat. ![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Waterfalls, Auroras, Comet: Iceland (2013 Mar 26)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2479
Re: APOD: Waterfalls, Auroras, Comet: Iceland (2013 Mar 26)
I found it! It's playing hide and seek. Could barely make it out in the high resolution image, didn't need to zoom though.
Beautiful APOD! Can't wait to go to Iceland some day... thank you for this!
Beautiful APOD! Can't wait to go to Iceland some day... thank you for this!
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:18 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning (2013 Mar 11)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3212
Re: APOD: Sakurajima Volcano with Lightning (2013 Mar 11)
No apod makes me happier than one with both lightning and a volcano... talk about a triple whammy when you throw in some stars.
My all-time favorite: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120730.html
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
My all-time favorite: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120730.html
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tardigrade in Moss (2013 Mar 06)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14752
Re: APOD: Tardigrade in Moss (2013 Mar 06)
In pictures of the small, it would be very helpful to have a scale. Please. A most enjoyable picture of a fascinating critter. The "pictured above" link has the magnification. (250 times when printed 10cm wide). http://images.sciencesource.com/preview/14006150/BS8236.html Fascinating crea...
- Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Gravitational Tractor (2013 Feb 21)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 51443
Re: APOD: Gravitational Tractor (2013 Feb 21)
It's important to note here that this tractor idea is by no means a solution to every asteroid. This COULD be the preferred solution to a larger asteroid (that would cause enough damage such that we should be worried), with a well known orbit, that we know is on a future collision path with earth, w...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Sweeping Through Southern Skies (2013 Feb 16)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2728
Re: APOD: Sweeping Through Southern Skies (2013 Feb 16)
Interesting comet-brightness graph I found today while looking for predicted brightness graphs of these two, looking forward to seeing something similar with Lemmon and PanSTARRS added, and maybe a comparison of predicted to actual magnitudes. :-) http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/perso/nicolas-biver/comets...
- Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 6822: Barnard's Galaxy (2013 Feb 08)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5296
Re: APOD: NGC 6822: Barnard's Galaxy (2013 Feb 08)
Do we know if NGC 6822 has a (super)massive central black hole? It doesn't appear to... Also, is it likely just a comparatively young but future elliptical galaxy? All the stars in this particular image look young and blue, but others it does seem to have an older appearing population of main sequen...
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex... (2012 Dec 19)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5571
Re: APOD: NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex... (2012 Dec 19)
I saw a splashing fish as well... and maybe a scorpion? And an angry face being punched in the eye?
- Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Sun Pillar Over Sweden (2012 Dec 18)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3566
Re: APOD: A Sun Pillar Over Sweden (2012 Dec 18)
I want to be a tourist in Sweden some day... what a lovely country. Sigh. Oh, also a lovely sun pillar.
- Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: 47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud (2012 Dec 06)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3035
Re: APOD: 47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud (2012 Dec 0
Love the colors of the stars and the SMC here, this image makes me long to see the southern hemisphere's night sky in person. Some day...
- Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:28 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: In the Center of Saturns North Polar... (2012 Dec 04)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5454
Re: APOD: In the Center of Saturns North Polar... (2012 Dec
Stunning image! Can't wait to see the official release... enjoyed that make-shift video quite a lot as well.
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Halo Around the Moon (2012 Nov 20)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9404
Re: APOD: A Halo Around the Moon (2012 Nov 20)
For some reason I was expecting one of those 2 last links to say something about this... http://discovermagazine.com/2012/apr/07-does-rain-come-from-life-in-the-clouds/?searchterm=cloud bacteria In any case, there it is. Lovely photo, I've always enjoyed a moon halo, I've seen a few nice ones in my ...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Our Story in One Minute (2012 Nov 14)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 16182
Re: APOD: Our Story in One Minute (2012 Nov 14)
That skyscraper is definitely in Dubai. I noticed a lake below that mountain, and I don't think Everest has a lake, although a helicopter HAS landed on Everest so the shot alone being aerial (likely from a helicopter) does not rule out Everest. Kind of looks like it though, but I don't know for sure...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Our Story in One Minute (2012 Nov 14)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 16182
Re: APOD: Our Story in One Minute (2012 Nov 14)
Humble Suggested Title Revision:
Our Story in One Minute (Except Creationists, since they didn't evolve with the rest of us)
Our Story in One Minute (Except Creationists, since they didn't evolve with the rest of us)
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:04 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Superstorm Sandy From Formation to... (2012 Nov 07)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 18040
Re: APOD: Superstorm Sandy From Formation to... (2012 Nov 07
How many more record breaking weather events do we need to witness before people stop denying global warming is happening all around us... and that all likely evidence points to us as the causal factor? Either we need to elect more knowlegable people, or else. This issue needs to be addressed immedi...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Saturns Moon Dione in Slight Color (2012 Nov 05)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9710
Re: APOD: Saturns Moon Dione in Slight Color (2012 Nov 05)
For anyone interested in a more visual/learning/fun aid to understanding orbits a bit better (and velocities at apoapses/periapses), the smart-phone game/app called Osmos is quite a lot of fun. I found myself visualizing the game while reading through these comments at least. ![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
- Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Black Hole in the Milky Way (2012 Nov 02)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8478
Re: APOD: The Black Hole in the Milky Way (2012 Nov 02)
So was this little flare caused by that infalling cloud of stuff I recall reading about not too long ago? A month or 2 ago maybe? I seem to recall reading something that mentioned we should be seeing a flare up at least but can't remember where I saw that. This dark energy star theory does sound qui...
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: VdB 152: A Ghost in Cepheus (2012 Oct 31)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3442
Re: APOD: VdB 152: A Ghost in Cepheus (2012 Oct 31)
could there be something like this preventing us from seeing beyond the 'edge' of the known universe? How far we can see is directly related to the speed of light and the age of the universe. We can only see as far as the light/photons have traveled since the Big Bang (the ones that travelled towar...
- Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A View from Next Door (2012 Oct 18)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15675
Re: APOD: A View from Next Door (2012 Oct 18)
The last sentence in the explanation is "Still, estimates indicate that planetary orbits would be stable within the habitable zone of Alpha Cen B, at about half the Earth-Sun distance ..." I wonder if there was intended to be more after "distance" but it got missed out? It just ...
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Goat Aurora Over Greenland (2012 Oct 03)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10592
Re: APOD: Goat Aurora Over Greenland (2012 Oct 03)
I couldn't see anything other than a Chinese dragon until an Irish setter was mentioned, that I can see as well. I don't think it looks anything like a goat though, funny how people see different things I suppose.
Finally a picture of Greenland where it's actually green though!![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
Finally a picture of Greenland where it's actually green though!
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)