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Cool. What kind of telescope do you have access to, if any? ( And PS, that should be "better than mine " - 😠 ) Yeah, my bad. Thanks for the correction! We got a Celestron CPC 1100, and a Sky-Watcher Dobsonian 8". Nice scopes both! Yeah, I love the Celestron. But unfortunately due to ...

Fascinating, Rauf. If you don't mind my asking, are you Iranian? You speak (or write) excellent English. But then, I do my best to write good English, and I'm Swedish. I used to belong to an astronomy club that I for different reasons lost interest in, but once, perhaps twenty years ago, we were vi...

JimB wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:18 am I have only experienced a total solar eclipse under a cloudy sky on a hill top in Dartmoor but it something that I will never forget. If you get the chance this year, than take it.

Was it the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999?

Yeah, I live there. I live in a small town called Borazjan in southern Iran. https://www.iraniantours.com/city/borazjan/ Scorching hot summers though! Ain't the best place to live. Fascinating, Rauf. If you don't mind my asking, are you Iranian? You speak (or write) excellent English. But then, I d...

Where I live, leap days is on a different date. Even leap years are calculated differently. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/iran-leap-year.html The Solar Hijri calendar year begins and ends with the vernal equinox. Like in the Gregorian calendar, there are common years with 365 days and leap years...

Where I live, leap days is on a different date. Even leap years are calculated differently. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/iran-leap-year.html The Solar Hijri calendar year begins and ends with the vernal equinox. Like in the Gregorian calendar, there are common years with 365 days and leap years ...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240302.jpg Odysseus on the Moon Donated by NASA, the American flag seen on the lander's central panel is 1970 Apollo program flight hardware. << Previous APOD This Day in APOD Next APOD >> 1970 Apollo program flight hardware? What does that mean?

APOD: The Leap Day tradition, this silver coin, I like it. :ssmile: Tunç Tezel Except in 2012 and 2008 which different pictures were featured! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120229.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080229.html I see that 2008 picture is yours :) Have you added any more lunar eclipses...

Sorry, this picture does not seem to be genuine, the "phoenix" may have been stamped together, see the discussion here: https://forum.meteoros.de/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=244257#p244257 This picture has been posted on APOD before, and discussed here in Asterisk. https://asterisk.apod.com/v...

The "phone booth sized" reference is likely to be meaningless to most younger people. I work at AT&T and, in our museum, we have a beautiful phone booth from the 1950's with a working pay phone in it. But I have not seen one outside of a museum in decades. We need to come up with an e...

What is the distance of the Seagull Nebula from earth? https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090327.html Well, an old APOD mentioned this. Dominated by the reddish glow of atomic hydrogen, the complex of cosmic gas and dust clouds with bright young stars spans over 250 light-years at an estimated 3,800 ligh...

Hoag's Object is, of course, so incredibly strange and fascinating. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2402/Hoag_HubbleBlanco_1080.jpg APOD 18 February 2024 annotated.png I do think I can see orbital motion in the ring. To see what makes Hoag's Object so strange, let's compare it with a few other rin...

userloser wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:56 am Quite obviously a boar and not a "dragon", whatever this "dragon" of yours is.

https://imgur.com/a/kFqhVd8

Can you prove it doesn't look like a dragon then?

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/ NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright...

https://www.r3gdigital.com/neb-d-details-01/ain Teleskop-Service ONTC 254mm Teleskop-Service GPU Coma Corrector IMX571, Antlia V-Pro LRGB iOptron CEM70 L: 22.87 R: 5.95 G: 5.33 B: 5.59 Total: 39.74 hrs This is the equipment that the astrophotographer used, according to his website. Does these possib...

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:11 pm This is actually pretty cool. Here's a side by side of the "light pillar sky roadmap" and the real map:


light pillar sky road ap of Jyväskylä finland.jpg

Thanks a lot. I stared at today's APOD for a couple of minutes but saw no resemblance, but this helped

Found a typo in annotations: AldebEran. :) But AldebAran is the right spelling.. The traditional name Aldebaran derives from the Arabic al Dabarān (الدبران), meaning 'the follower', because it seems to follow the Pleiades. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union Working Group on Star Names (W...

Hi Chris! If you're interested in contributing to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), you may want to reach out directly to the APOD team or NASA to express your interest and inquire about potential collaboration opportunities. APOD is a popular resource for sharing stunning astronomical im...

https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/vide ... n-germany/

Includes some footage

Today's title: The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty

Tomorrow's title: Unforgotten

I see a reference to Clint Eastwood here

Liviux wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:34 am That said, I want to add my congratulations to Giacomo Venturini for this exceptional and much evocative picture.
Bravissimo!

The picture's photographer is actually Valerio Minato.

Goodbye Orin, may you find your place among the stars now.

Nice! Can I ask what kind of binocular did you use? It was a handheld 50×7. At my age, I should probably be using one with a smaller exit pupil, such as a 50×10, but I haven’t been moved to replace it yet. Cool! Unfortunately for me, I don't have access to dark skies, I live in an urban area with a...

Iksarfighter wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:44 am Not Found

The requested URL /apod/image/2312/greyilliusion_wikipedia_960.jpg was not found on this server.

That's just a typo in the link. Try this:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2312/g ... ia_960.jpg

Merry Christmas Orin, Ann and everyone else! Wishing all the folks in APOD and Asterisk the best