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STS133 - Shuttle Discovery Stereoscopic "wiggle" Copyright: Daniel Herron http://www.danielandmisty.com/Photos/STS133-Rollout-Wiggle.gif I had the pleasure of going to the 1st last roll out (she had two that mission due to external tank issues)of the Space Shuttle Discovery for her last m...

Have loved this galaxy since, let's see -- Lincoln was President, I think. This comes from the moderately light polluted skies above Littleton, Colorado, and comprises about 8 hours of LRGB data through an 80mm Stellarvue refractor with an ST-8e on a Paramount ME. Many thanks for viewing; it is a tr...

When I make myself stop and think about space flight, to Earth orbit or the Moon, I simply can't comprehend the courage it takes to do that. Oh, it's easy for some of us to say, "Sure, I'd love to go to the Moon", or "Yeah, I'd've flown in a shuttle.", but when push came to shove...

Neighbor Of A Grand Design (M31 The Andromeda Galaxy) Copyright: Terry Hancock http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/7877892154/ http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8301/7877892154_0ec7c92f54_z.jpg My latest version of the Andromeda Galaxy was shot from my humble back yard observatory in Fremont MI u...

Neufer, you have to add at least a joke in your post! That beeping and jeeping joke is beyond my comprehension :( It's all neufer's fault :!: :!: I read a recent post of his, where Popeye the sailor was asking what a 'jeep' was.(i think it's in an APOD thread) Well, a jeep(vehicle)runs on the road,...

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6JOV26IbtZe24sAiuX7aoklYRD611ub8uen_ErZZzEbNb1AELrw This is a test and only a test. Do not attempt to adjust the horizontal. Do not attempt to adjust the vertical. I repeat… this is a test. Should this have been an actual emergency you would not have receiv...

The neutrino gag is too funny to be real. For a minute, I thought we were going down the road of " A proton orders a drink at a bar. The neutron bartender sets the drink down in front of the proton, who asks, "How much?" The neutron replies, "No charge." Glad we avoided that...

Hi Bob Anderson,
Beauty of an image, M-31. It's amazing what narrowband filtering can do for the brightest objects - brings out all the detail in the arms. Thanks for the submission.
Steve

Haze finally decreasing in Denver area -- maybe some imaging soon?? Time will tell -- been an interesting summer.

J-P -
That's the kind of imagery that keeps me up at night - a real beauty. Thanks for all the patient processing

Very tragic year for wildfires in the lower 48. For we westerners (Colorado), this translates into hazy skies all summer long. :( Glimpses of ANYTHING have been few and far between. Visited a friend In Kiowa (55 miles SE of Denver) a few weeks back and had the pleasure of a relatively cloudless dark...

Hi Astro-Folk, Steve from light polluted Littleton, CO here. Astronomy has dominated me since the fifth grade, when a great General Science teacher took his class to an old Nike missle sight in upstate Connecticut and showed them Orion - that was it -- hooked - BAM! :shock: 'Course, then came Lost i...