Starship Asterisk*

At the top of the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" page it says "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer". Today's picture is by a "Ben Cooper" who according to t...

When a terrestrial feature gets in the way of an astronomical view, is it not possible to remove said terrestrial feature using Photoshop? Alternatively, as in this case, the photographer should really have noticed that there was a volcano in the way and chosen a different position from which to tak...

We seem to be moving towards TPOD (Terrestrial Picture of the Day) again. What exactly does this picture have to do with Astronomy?

Clicking on the main image goes to http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/im ... _block.jpg which does not exist!

It seems that the number of terrestrial scenes with some astronomical scenes in the background are increasing on APOD and today we have a scene with no astronomical details at all. What do others think about this? Personally, I prefer pure astronomical pictures. There are dozens of sites on which I ...