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by Quae
Sun Jan 05, 2020 4:55 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Bugs? Problems? Report them here!
Replies: 386
Views: 2394756

Re: Bugs? Problems? Report them here!

Can you please specify the text encoding in the APOD HTML? Today's (January 5, 2020) APOD ("A Starry Night of Iceland") mentions the name of the location where the picture was taken and that name includes non-ASCII characters. The page's HTML does not indicate the text encoding, so my brow...
by Quae
Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:26 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico (2016 Aug 31)
Replies: 12
Views: 4407

Re: APOD: Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico (2016 Aug 31)

The diameter of the Sun in the picture is about 3 times the height of the person. Given that the distance to the Sun is just over 100 times its diameter, this means that the distance between the person and the camera is about 300 times the person's height. Assuming the person's height is 1.7 m = 5.5...