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I am thinking of reversing the world map that occurs on the main nightskylive.net page. Instead of the present image that looks like this: http://nightskylive.net/worldmap/worldmap.gif the new "reverse" image would look like this: http://nightskylive.net/worldmap_reversed.gif Why would we ...

Welcome! This forum is intented to be a polite but informal disussion of the APOD. The main NASA URL of APOD is http://apod.nasa.gov/ (see also list of APOD mirrors, RSS feeds and related resources ). First let me point out that this is not a NASA site and that anything said here by anyone does not ...

The Mauna Kea (MK) CONCAM is currently placed in front of the SMA building as the SMA roof is being upgraded for better access and perches for other cameras. It has been hooked up and continues to return images, but the CONCAM has not been oriented and there are big buildings looming in the front. W...

This might have gone under it's own "Subject". I don't know if it is possible but replies might automatically be given the old subject name with a "RE:" in front of it. My e-mailer does this and I think that others BB programs do this as well. I don't know if automatic "RE:&...

I just got an e-mail pointing out this image: http://nightskylive.net/ss/sd040724/sd040724ut154245p.jpg Michael Murphy from U. Cambridge (UK), who sent me the link, guesses that this is a "Huntsman" spider of about 5 cm length. I guess we have one of the few systems that needs to be "...

I was referring to the stars. I don't like them.
The cosmic rays are OK.

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Everything appears to work.

The Night Sky appears imperfect. It has all of these white dots all over it. I don't like them. Can somebody remove them? Here is a picture of what I am talking about