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- Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:36 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Perseid Meteors Over China (2013 Aug 21)
- Replies: 13
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Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors Over China (2013 Aug 21)
I suppose this is a similar technique to get an analemma. Is it ok?
- Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:31 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Perseid Meteors Over China (2013 Aug 21)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2909
Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors Over China (2013 Aug 21)
Let's see, over four hours the earth rotates by sixty degrees; therefore, each of the 68 frames that were combined was rotated as needed to compensate for earth's rotation, so that the patterns of stars from different frames overlapped correctly. That leaves a puzzle: Why is the silhouette of a tre...
- Mon Aug 19, 2013 1:39 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Skylab Over Earth (2013 Aug 18)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6729
Re: APOD: Skylab Over Earth (2013 Aug 18)
If I've understood well, today's APOD image should have had these fiducials, and actually it doesn't, so one's not able to discriminate sizes - I mean dimensions - and distance. fid.jpg This image does have fiducial marks, as we'd expect for an image from that time, made on film. And the film is ce...
- Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Skylab Over Earth (2013 Aug 18)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6729
Re: APOD: Skylab Over Earth (2013 Aug 18)
I must say that this discussion has been the most interesting for me. In fact, I've learned a lot. Fido's history has touched my heart almost to tears. If I've understood well, today's APOD image should have had these fiducials, and actually it doesn't, so one's not able to discriminate sizes - I me...
- Sat Aug 17, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M8: The Lagoon Nebula (2013 Aug 17)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4515
Re: APOD: M8: The Lagoon Nebula (2013 Aug 17)
It's really a interesting image what you've posted. But, what means this image slipping to right and left?
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Perseid Meteors Over Ontario (2013 Aug 13)
- Replies: 17
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Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors Over Ontario (2013 Aug 13)
The meteor running under Triangulum goes toward Constellation Perseus and not in the opposite direction as I would expected. Is this ok? All these annotations on the image are important for me; I'm just learning from all of you, guys. I think the meteors not having the "normal" shape were ...
- Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:45 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Orbits of Potentially Hazardous... (2013 Aug 12)
- Replies: 95
- Views: 9161
Re: APOD: Orbits of Potentially Hazardous... (2013 Aug 12)
All of us know Earth has been hit by many "potentially hazardous asteroids". As far as I know, Rusia has had "very close encounters" at least two times: one at the very beginning of XX century and the last one Russians had this year and caused serious damages in buildings and per...