Starship Asterisk*

Thank you very much Ann, that's most gracious of you! I'm just a novice at AP, and I'm nowhere near Tunç Tezel's or Thierry Legault's (or bladerunner's!) calibre, but having my very first submission so well received by folks who know their business really means the world to me! (I am stoked!) Thanks...

neufer wrote: I really think that you need to get some professional help, Voyager3

Don't we all(!)

Thanks bystander!
It'a a pleasure to be aboard!

Hello, Here is my first submission. I hope you like it. Shot from Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday Aug. 2nd 2011, around 20:00 EST SW 102mm refractor; EQ3-2 mount; Orion SSPIAG (3 image mosaic. 500 shots per image); Registax 5; PhotoShop7 (For assembling the mosaic only. No other processing). m125 copy2...

"Nepalese night" look like old-school cover art for 1970's sci-fi novels, like Heinlein's or Asimov's!
I can't belive it's not airbrushed!
Outstandind!

The nature of the universe being what it is, I'm surprised there aren't more perfect spheres/circles out there.
Very nice pictures.

These images are truly spectacular!
Thnak you very much.

Woo hoo!
Thanks guys!
This page is book marked in my favorites' list.
You've just saved me (years?) of googling!

Thanks again!

Walt Disney Crater?

Oh wait, he's not technically dead, is he?

To neufer:
Posting a Victor Borge routine after a discertation about the flatness of the universe (sorry, "nowverse...?)
strangely makes absolute sense to me.
(It was a treat to see the old fellow again!).

This is the strangest, and the most delightful forum I've ever participated in.

When I was a kid, everybody knew the Universe was expanding. Then when I was in high school, they said the Big Crunch would come. Then a few years ago, they discovered that the expansion of the universe was not slowing down but speeding up, and it would lead to the Big Freeze. Now we're back to the ...

Congratulations to the Russian Space Agency! We need all the telescopes we can get, and Speker-R looks very promising indeed. On the day of the launch, I posted the news on another astronomy forum (which shall remain nameless), and not one word in reply! I'm happy to have come aboard Starship Asteri...

I absolutely love everything about this mission. The physics, the chemistry, the astronomy, the mythology, the tribute to Galileo, and even the little Lego figurines! (IMHO If putting mission-related toys on the spacecraft can make just one kid sit up and take notice, the few grams of weight will ha...

I loved Neil DeGrasse Tyson in some of the early episodes of History Channel's "The Universe". He dissapeared from later episodes, and I always wondered if it was because that show started going down the road of populist sensationalism ("The 10 Worst Storms in the Universe!", &qu...