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Many thanks, geckzilla, for showing how the Vimeo tag works. I looked at what you had done and it looked like what I had done, but then all that had shown up in the preview was the url. Might be that I am accessing via a mobile device, so perhaps needed to delete the /m/ part of the URL? Who knows! ...

Hi all, the photographer speaking (writing) Thank you for the comments and thank you to the editors for liking my photo, it's a great honor to me. Nice image. Someday I'll have to travel south of the equator for a view of the sky there. One question though, Is the Hard Line at the bottom of the ima...

I came across this video whilst looking at a past Apod on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/m/23205323 http://vimeo.com/23205323 It has marvellous images of clouds seen from above and also of Mount Teide. Margarita PS This is pretty obvious, but 'El Cielo de Canarias' means The Canarian Sky. PPS. Does anyone ...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080919.html Nice catch, Harry! Should be in Discuss an APOD. I do realise that this thread is a little old... But has anyone got more information about this Apod? Robert Nemiroff mentioned it in the Astronomy course on YouTube that I'm working my way through, saying that...

Thank you, Chris and Ann. What a fund of knowledge you are! Chris, you wrote It only appears dramatic in this image because the long exposure required to capture the galaxy totally overexposed the comparatively bright star. In general, when you see bright objects in deep sky images that show diffrac...

This actually is something that resulted from following links from today's Apod, but the query I have is so tangential that I thought it best to post it here. The link is to http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010510.html which is entitled 'Spirals on Edge'. All the galaxies are named, so I looked them up f...

CRW_6565p.jpg And here we are just a couple of hours later when Jupiter and the Moon were at their closest- under a degree as seen from Colorado (and just over a half degree from Jupiter to the limb of the Moon). OH! Thank you for posting that, Chris! I had this conjunction noted in my diary so tha...

Or if Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are missing. The fact that you are here, Margarita, tells me that you are not one of the PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) or Arts graduates, who think that they dirty their minds with an understanding of any science based subject. The T...

Margarita, you are absolutely correct. Makes for a well rounded person with enough breadth to be invited to a lot of parties ( interesting people get to go to a lot of places ) This isn't at all relevant, but I keep thinking of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio; Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,...

bystander wrote:

MargaritaMc wrote:What does STEM mean in this context?

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Many thanks. How very grim and limiting education must be if there is no music, poetry, art, history...

Margarita

Well said, John. Thanks for the origin of "epicyclic". I learned something today! Throughout recorded history, people have usually assumed that we stand at the pinnacle of human knowledge, wisdom, and accomplishment, and that our forebears were ignorant and clumsy. This is one of the most...

FLPhotoCatcher wrote:Here's a video (almost 50 min. long) about the Antikythera Mechanism.

Many thanks for posting this YouTube video! I've only just now had time to sit and watch it through and have been absolutely enthralled.
Margarita

too bad the library in Alexandria burned to a crisp. What would the science community give to have the books back My jaw is still dropping. I knew, from reading Charles Freeman's The Closure of The Western Mind , that the ancient world was masses more advanced than I had hitherto assumed. But to ha...

bystander wrote:

MargaritaMc wrote:
I am doing this post simply to see if my new Avatar works!

All you really needed to do was look at a previous post. Just sayin'

Cooo, lumme! I Didn't Know That Ain't this modern techologgy wundrrfull?

And again!
I am doing this post simply to see if my new Avatar works! So the only tentative link I can make to the thread title is that I didn't know that I could use this photo of Syd licking his lips as my avatar. But it's a bit weak...
Margarita

I saw first what I assume is the intended video, but then what I presume is a YouTube selection of videos came up on the screen. Some of them were also magnificent -but to get back to the original Apod I had to close the browser and reopen it. Margarita PS, one of the extra videos (from the Universi...

Fantastic shirt!
We call Sam (that is the Senior Cat in.the photo) THE BOSS, cos he is.

Margarita (does an ensign serve up cat dinners?)

Yesterday, Ann wrote "Also, the fact that this is a V-Ha-I image, taken through green (555 nm), Ha + N II (658 nm) and infrared (814 nm) filters," I probably don't need to understand this - but I would like to! Is this feasible for a non-photographer? And - many thanks for all the info on ...

Yup, like that! Congrats, and nice cat! Yes, a very nice cat indeed! (Wasn't that Dr Johnson on his cat, Hodge?) Sadly, Syd has gone to the Great Cat Basket in the Sky, elderly, well-loved and well-fed. We were missing him deeply (still do - he died November 7th last) when a stray starving orphaned...

Firstly - I know that I am not using the quote function! I am having to access the forum via my mobile phone at present and that does make posting interesting ... Chris Peterson wrote, on Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:21 am, "To upload an image, use the Upload attachment tab found below the text box used ...

I can do smileys - But HOW do you post pictures?
Is there a beginners' guide to this Advanced Stuff?
Bemused of Tenerife
aka Margarita


ps. Hey look! I've been promoted! I'M AN ENSIGN ALREADY!

Re Dark skies. Wikipedia again: (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_Observatory) "The Observatorio del Teide (Teide Observatory) is an astronomical observatory on Tenerife operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Opened in 1964, it became one of the first major international obse...

Gold star (or galaxy) for knowing that Tenerife is one of the Canary Isles! Lots of birds, including local subspecies, but I've not seen canaries. Wikipedia says: "Contrary to its name, the islands have little to nothing to do with the canary bird. Rather, it is the bird that is named after the...

"(Aren't you glad you asked. )" Yes, I am! It led to my learning about wikisky, and to my searching for what USNOA2 stands for and discovered that "USNO-A2.0 is a catalog of 526,280,881 stars," (http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/ua2.html) It is the final 1 that delights me - no...

Does anyone know anything about the spiral galaxy that is like a catherine wheel in the bottom left hand quadrant of this photo? Regarding the photo as a whole - my husband came into the room this morning to see me with eyes wide open (and mouth) as I was murmuring, "Oh! I'm in love!" He b...