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- Sun Jun 09, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2024 Jun 09)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5706
Re: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2024 Jun 09)
Or in certain parts of eastern Europe/Middle East: exploding alternative to bolide could be a missile shot down by defensive missile
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b (2024 May 03)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1734
Re: APOD: Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b (2024 May 03)
Seems like the winds must be unreal on such a system, and judging from the heat retention, the atmosphere pretty darn thick. It would be interesting for someone to make a stab at modeling such extreme conditions!
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: All Sky Moon Shadow (2024 Apr 27)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2372
Re: APOD: All Sky Moon Shadow (2024 Apr 27)
The image is a another masterpiece by Tunç Tezel. APOD should be able to spell his name correctly. Holger [/quote] So is he from Turkey? That's the Turkey flag, right? [/quote] Where is this Turkish flag you’re referring to? [/quote] Look closely on the ground at approximately 9 o'clock..... https:/...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rings Around the Ring Nebula (2024 Apr 28)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1585
Re: APOD: Rings Around the Ring Nebula (2024 Apr 28)
![Image](https://crickethillgarden.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/csn.jpg)
With the added detail, it reminds me of a single peony
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: All Sky Moon Shadow (2024 Apr 27)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2372
Re: APOD: All Sky Moon Shadow (2024 Apr 27)
Is that Cassiopeia's W near center? Probably not near center, but Cassiopeia should be in the picture. I definitely couldn't spot the familiar W. Ann Cassiopeia is in the picture. Look at the annotated version mentioned in the explanation. The image is a another masterpiece by Tunç Tezel. APOD shou...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon and Smoke Rings from Mt. Etna (2024 Apr 22)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1302
Re: APOD: Moon and Smoke Rings from Mt. Etna (2024 Apr 22)
If it was around 2 weeks ago in the morning, that waning crescent was heading toward a solar eclipse!
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: How a Total Solar Eclipse Ended (2024 Apr 14)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1459
Re: APOD: How a Total Solar Eclipse Ended (2024 Apr 14)
And before anyone extolls the virtue of how digital data collection can cover a greater degree of the spectrum, have greater visual resolution and can break time into way smaller chunks that the human brain is capable, that is all completely missing the point. The digital breakdown is in the simulta...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: How a Total Solar Eclipse Ended (2024 Apr 14)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1459
Re: APOD: How a Total Solar Eclipse Ended (2024 Apr 14)
Once again, the digital sensors just plain maxed out as the sun re-emerged, while in person, the reappearance of the bright disk of the sun, while causing a person to avert their eyes from the brightness, was accompanied by a spotlight shaft of light shooting down from the sky into the circle of dar...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Total Totality (2024 Apr 12)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1702
Re: APOD: Total Totality (2024 Apr 12)
This is a fascinating discussion with so many things to consider ("consider" etymology, by the way, alludes to "looking toward the stars" con+sidere)! Perception emerges from the interaction between two or more objects, and as such is completely objective at its core and yet sub...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Total Totality (2024 Apr 12)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1702
Re: APOD: Total Totality (2024 Apr 12)
This is a fascinating discussion with so many things to consider ("consider" etymology, by the way, alludes to "looking toward the stars" con+sidere)! Perception emerges from the interaction between two or more objects, and as such is completely objective at its core and yet subj...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Planets Around a Total Eclipse (2024 Apr 10)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1330
Re: APOD: Planets Around a Total Eclipse (2024 Apr 10)
This conversation about digital processing and imagery differences shrinking or enlarging high contrast components of an image brings to mind my experience of the eclipse only a few miles away from where this photo was taken. The eye, occipital lobe visual processing part of the brain and other proc...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: To the Moon (2024 Feb 24)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1631
Re: APOD: To the Moon (2024 Feb 24)
Seems that the designers of these landers haven't mastered the challenge of fitting that lander into the relatively narrow cylinder of a rocket, maximize the amount of instrumentation you can pack into it, AND do it in such a way as to have a low center of gravity so it can land on uneven surfaces/s...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A January Wolf Moon (2024 Feb 13)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1531
Re: APOD: A January Wolf Moon (2024 Feb 13)
The Moons were named after what was going on in the tribal territories that groups wandered around in at the time; reflections of the local ecologically or culturally significant events for that time of year. For instance, the January Moon for the Osages who lived in my area was called "Frost o...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Apollo 14: A View from Antares (2024 Feb 03)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5133
Re: APOD: Apollo 14: A View from Antares (2024 Feb 03)
Thanks, Johnny Deep for identifying the instrument station and the excellent links to more information. Exactly what I was looking for!
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Apollo 14: A View from Antares (2024 Feb 03)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5133
Re: APOD: Apollo 14: A View from Antares (2024 Feb 03)
If you expand the photo, you'll see a station set up a ways away from Antares landing site, located in the upper left of the photo, and the tracks that lead over to it all. Is this a seismic station and other instrumentation set up to operate after they left, set up far enough away to avoid being da...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Ghost Aurora over Canada (2023 Oct 22)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17694
Re: APOD: Ghost Aurora over Canada (2023 Oct 22)
Woman with a pheasant flying right overhead