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by rjansen
Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Phantoms in Cassiopeia (2024 Oct 26)
Replies: 15
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Re: APOD: Phantoms in Cassiopeia (2024 Oct 26)

Regarding the stated field of view in the final sentence of the description: it should read "spans over 0.5 degree or 5 light-years" rather than "spans over 1 degree or 10 light-years". The coordinate grid overlay in https://www.astrobin.com/18dwm3/ can be used to verify, where e...
by rjansen
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:56 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Structure in the Tail of Comet... (2024 Feb 16)
Replies: 10
Views: 6947

Re: APOD: Structure in the Tail of Comet... (2024 Feb 16)

Wonderful capture of this comet! An even fainter, broad dust tail seems to extend from the nucleus toward the upper right, roughly between 1 and 2 o'clock.
by rjansen
Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:24 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2022 December
Replies: 105
Views: 174524

Re: Submissions: 2022 December

A JWST Field of Extragalactic Pearls Studded with Galactic Diamonds http://lambda.la.asu.edu/jwst/pr22/index.html Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, R. Jansen (ASU) and A. Pagan (STScI) The Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) GTO program released one of the first medium-dee...