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Eclipse flight Copyright: Paul Hombach SoFi2015PH_45.jpg Total eclipse at 78° north latitude Copyright: Jay Pasachoff, Marcos Peñaloza-Murillo, Allison L. Carter, Ronald Dantowitz, Vojtech Rusin, Aristeidis Voulgaris, John Seiradakis, Michael Kentrianakis, Michael Zeiler AllisonCarter_2.jpg Allison...

Please post your eclipse images on this thread; thanks!

No, no; we rip the flesh off bunnies and other beasties that are too big to swallow whole, but can also deal with the morsels that fit down the hatch mostly complete.

All we know for sure is that sleeks did not cause the effect. If there were a bit of a lower pillar, isn't it likely the image would show... well, what it shows? Yes, there is some camera/optical effect going on, too, as is shown by the blown-out sun in other images, but I don't see anything in the ...

I love this photo! A stunner!

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I'm doomed. That was the thirteenth post.

Well, lucky for you I've removed two posts, so you're safe!

Uwe wrote:Beautiful picture, Thank you APOD! Just out of sheer interest: Does anyone know, whether it's possible to walk along (parts of) the wall?

Yes, it is.

Well, now it's March, and so far we've had snow, freezing rain, and sleet. The windshield on my car iced over while I was driving; fun time! (Not. So so not.)

I'd rather have just snow!

From the ISS:
https://twitter.com/AstroTerry/status/5 ... 6360970241

NASA remembers Leonard Nimoy: http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-rememb ... index.html

What an amazing and beautiful image this is!

Yes; the Feb 8th APOD didn't move into production. The editors have been notified, undoubtedly more than once!

It's warmed up to 19°F. First thing I did this morning was check for frozen pipes; none, woo-hoo!

bystander, will gladly change weather with you.

A couple of nights ago, I saw Mercury and Venus in the western sky. Tonight, I saw Comet Lovejoy, barely, through binoculars.

You might look at the image here: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/sunset2.htm

Hope that helps!

That last picture is very intriguing.

Chris, that's a beautiful picture!

starsurfer: http://files.aas.org/aas225/aas225_block_schedule.pdf

Search for "nebula."

You're welcome.

On January 6, the poster below was presented at the 225th AAS meeting in Seattle, and has preliminary results of an analysis of four months of data from three APOD social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. We will be expanding the dataset in the coming weeks. We invite others to perform th...

Also, the spam catcher refers to the Sun as "burning," which it's not. There's nothing wrong with using "burn" when referring to stars. One perfectly acceptable meaning is "marked by intense heat". We talk about burning light bulbs. We talk about burning passion. And e...

It's warmer in Nome than it is in Maryland. In single digits (°F) last night; am hoping we get above freezing this afternoon.

Then yes, from your POV, all the participants (that I know of) were young!

Ron, certainly the AAS meetings are very large! The other astro meetings I have attended are much smaller. Some day, I will attend an AAS meeting with a goal of going to the science sessions. The AAS press conferences are informative and I wish I had attended more of them. Margarita, it was fairly m...

That was fun! And busy, and tiring, and wow, did it go fast!

Margarita, thanks for letting me know Astrobites is live-blogging! I think Astro Computing Today has been doing a bit. Ron-Astro, there is so much here, it's hard to know what to go to. I am so glad I remembered to restock my travel bottle of ibuprofen, because everything hurts, and I didn't even go...