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- Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Everest Panorama from Mars (2013 Dec 08)
- Replies: 29
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Re: APOD: Everest Panorama from Mars (2013 Dec 08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncpCTFI-d9E Two things strike me about this landscape panorama. One....it appears utterly lifeless and its starkness stands in contrast to the lush and biologically rich planet we live on. Two....what an incredible engineering feat it is to launch, land and sustain th...
- Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Everest Panorama from Mars (2013 Dec 08)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 20792
Re: APOD: Everest Panorama from Mars (2013 Dec 08)
Two things strike me about this landscape panorama. One....it appears utterly lifeless and its starkness stands in contrast to the lush and biologically rich planet we live on. Two....what an incredible engineering feat it is to launch, land and sustain these probes. I'm in awe. Regarding its lifele...
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 1999: South of Orion (2013 Nov 28)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2271
Re: APOD: NGC 1999: South of Orion (2013 Nov 28)
An absolutely incredible image of one of my favourite deep sky treasures of Orion! I'm also a big fan of Herbig Haro objects and nebulous YSO's, so the detail provided by the Subaru narrowband data is crazy epic! The only aspect of the image I don't like are the fake diffraction spikes, they look w...
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 1999: South of Orion (2013 Nov 28)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2271
Re: APOD: NGC 1999: South of Orion (2013 Nov 28)
BTW...thank you for all the nice comments above!
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 1999: South of Orion (2013 Nov 28)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2271
Re: APOD: NGC 1999: South of Orion (2013 Nov 28)
Nice one. The HH object looks like a bipolar flamethrower with these colors. Maybe that's not such a bad analogy for them, anyway. If Rob pokes his head in here, question for him: Was this already in the pipeline or did you feel the need to revisit it after we put your older image of NGC 1999 in th...
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:10 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M57: The Ring Nebula (2012 Apr 20)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4109
Re: APOD: M57: The Ring Nebula (2012 Apr 20)
People who are familiar with M57 will understand that the attempt here was "not" to produce a "soft" version but rather an extraordinarily deep and detailed version which requires aggressive and careful processing. There are many "softer" versions available on the web. ...