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by astrokareny
Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:52 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Dueling Bands in the Night (2018 Feb 27)
Replies: 15
Views: 30964

Re: APOD: Dueling Bands in the Night (2018 Feb 27)

The sky portion of the image is beautiful, but I had the same issue with the star reflections in the water. There is nothing in the water that appears to correspond to the star patterns in the sky, star brightness notwithstanding. What am I missing about the principle of reflection? Maybe the "...
by astrokareny
Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Solar Eclipse from the Moon (2014 Apr 07)
Replies: 19
Views: 6375

Re: APOD: A Solar Eclipse from the Moon (2014 Apr 07)

What am I missing? I expected the earth covering the sun to look a lot bigger than the moon covering the sun. The earth in this set of images looks the same curvature and size to me as the moon does in a solar eclipse as viewed from earth.