Starship Asterisk*

Really a cool picture. I wish the description had mentioned the seconds per pixel, so I calculated it with TimeAndDate.com Between 19:04 and 06:35, I got 11 hours, 31 minutes and 0 seconds. At 3600 seconds/hour and 60 seconds/minute, that makes 41,460 total seconds With a width of 3296 pixels, I cal...

Isn't that image upside down? There is no such thing as upside down in astrophotography. But chirality is a thing, and this photo appears to be mirror-reversed. The photo’s orientation can be found in the copyright link to the photographer. Cousin Ricky: You're right, I misstated my observation, an...

Notice that in today's APOD picture, there is a black cloud to the right of M78 and it extends into a thin arm cupping beneath M78
If you look at other photos of M78, the black cloud is to the right, but that thin arm arches above M78. I think the APOD image is flipped horizontally. Right?

Isn't that image upside down?

What is that huge brown dimly-lit patch in the middle of the screen at 0:34?