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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by Wayne » Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:34 pm

Not that one.

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:22 pm

is this the hubble deep field image?
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:23 pm

Just looked at the deep field, and I remember looking at it, and now I feel stoopid. What a clown am I. theres about a bazillion galaxies in that photo. sorry
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:25 pm

Wait a minute, I forget its cropped, it could be. let me check.
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:39 pm



Pah........ 3 days, mwuhahahahah.


I won't be able to post until friday, so I delegate it back to you (Wayne) to pick a good one. Either that or pass it on to someone else :P.


YAY, my first what is it!!!!!!
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by Wayne » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:45 pm

Well done. Care to post how you found it?

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:58 am

I searched APOD with the word Galaxy and clicked on the first one that came up then used a keen eye. I took a couple of markers from your cropped photo like the distant galaxy with quite a bright star underneath it (middle top) and the blue hazy galaxy (middle right) and just kept an eye out for them.
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by Wayne » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:09 am

Anyone can take the next one, then.

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:12 am

I can't crop stuff at work, so I'm stuffed. I'm just glad I won and want my name added to the list and preserved for future generations.
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:16 am

can i post next one?
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #21

Post by wonderboy » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:28 am

I give you permission and look forward to it. I love these things :D
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What is it? Space mystery object #22

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:29 pm

as wonderboy gave me the permission, I'm sending number 22:
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #22

Post by owlice » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:12 pm

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #22

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:26 pm

Well, i'm so naive, i thought people would confuse it with nebula stuff!
Was it that obvious ,owlice?
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #22

Post by owlice » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:34 pm

Amir, I mainly look for colors/patterns. I thought it would be something Earthbound because of the lighting, but I first looked at the APOD calendar link and randomly picked a month or two. From that, I got the idea to search for volcano, and not finding any obvious matches, searched for rocket. The color -- that intense, bright light yellow surrounding white -- made it easy to pick out from those pictures.

It's quite a pretty crop.

Please feel free to post #23!
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #22

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:44 pm

thanks owlice, i'll try posting a harder one.
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What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:54 pm

here's number 23:
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by makc » Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:32 pm

What is it? Space mystery object #23
Captain Obvious asked me to let evrybody know, that's a galaxy. Probably spiral one, too.

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:03 pm

haha! seems that you have wise friends there, what does the other captain say about which APOD it has been cropped from?
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #22

Post by Amir » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:27 pm

i have a problem when i search images in APOD. it says "Found 500 items.Displaying 200 of them."
and there is no Next button to see other 300 items. why?
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by makc » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:28 pm

he says, from unknown one :(

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by makc » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:32 pm

oh well, what a hell...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010510.html
one of over 400 items on apod search for "edge-on"

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by owlice » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:34 pm

Oh, good, it's a race to the unknown!!

Never mind!
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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by makc » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:35 pm

owlice wrote:Oh, good, it's a race to the unknown!!

Never mind!
ha ha. well, I will skip the next round then.

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Re: What is it? Space mystery object #23

Post by owlice » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:35 pm

No, please don't; what fun would that be?!
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