Starship Asterisk*

It’s also really amazing that this image is still up as an APOD, even after a dozen or so of the worlds best Astrophotographers (who have all been featured here before), have come out to say how utterly disgusted they are and dismayed that this website would publish such a fakery as this image.

this is pretty much the most absurdly fake APOD ever published. It’s even worse than that ridiculous Saturn ISS transit from a couple years ago. I get that they want likes and distribution etc. but this nonsense has just gone way too far. “sure it’s fake but, who cares, it’s a beautiful image” from ...

I just can’t believe they didn’t throw in an ISS transit. Afterall, it’s an APOD, right?

I have no history with whoever Robert Gendler is except blocking him from my social media accounts. I have edited my post and apologize for referencing him in my post.

Anyone interested; I neither exposed this fraud nor the last obvious fraud from Julian Wessel. I was notified in both cases by Christopher Go, Damian Peach and about 20 other experienced imagers to post this because they knew I had tens of thousands of social media followers and could get the word o...

as always when a fake is pointed out, the people that constantly seek APODs or have gotten a few in the past defend these indefensible frauds with statements like this. Chris Peterson ,with all due respect to your prestigious and well earned academic position, you have "won" APODs in the p...

There is little doubt among the astrophotography community that this is some of Jesus' data highly augemented by HST data to create a static surface map image and then wrapped around a 3D globe using software. The imagers youtube channel has several examples of this including a full rotation of URAN...