APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related

lanceman · Post by **lanceman** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:03 am

The APOD pic I received for 10/30/07 was not astronomy related, it was a pic of a cat looking into a flower pot. For real! What's up with that? I don't have any other wallpaper set on my computer.

Thank you.

Case · Post by **Case** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:53 am

To ease your shock moment of terrestrial creatures, here are some astronomically related pictures of similar life forms: Cat's Eye and Sunflower.

OBapod: it may have to do with the apod being an animated gif, which may not be supported on your system as a desktop wallpaper.

RhoEps · Post by **RhoEps** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:11 pm

I see the same image. I've also seen animated gifs as my background before (although they remain static). Perhaps the kitten's name is Comet 1-7P/Holmes...

lanceman · Post by **lanceman** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:21 pm

I have seen animated GIFs before with APOD but as RhoEps said they remain static. I can recheck my settings but I believe that since this is the first occurrence there must be something else going on.

Thanks

iamlucky13 · Post by **iamlucky13** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:34 pm

Well, something's going on, because I see a comet transposed next to Jupiter. I looked, but I couldn't spot a kitten

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071030.html

When I first read your title I was a little confused. "That's not astronomy" gets said fairly often, typically when the APOD is of some atmospheric phenomena. I couldn't fathom how a comet would not be considered astronomy.

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The size of the coma has definitely been growing over the last couple of days, but does anyone know if the comet is getting brighter? Friday or Saturday I saw the magnitude quoted as 2.8. All I've seen since then is 3 (rounded, I assume).

Qev · Post by **Qev** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:48 pm

I'm guessing the wallpaper application grabbed the wrong image, somehow. oO

RhoEps · Post by **RhoEps** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:05 pm

Would be curious to know where it grabbed it from since both lanceman and I see the same picture, and I'm pretty sure this wasn't already residing on my machine.

If I go to the APOD site and manually set the picture to be my background it works just fine.

I suspect the residents of Comet 1-7P/Holmes are attempting to hide their existence...

spaceman8815 · Post by **spaceman8815** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:52 pm

I have the same problem my wall paper has been set to a cat looking in a pot.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:30 am

Must be the Halloween syndrome!

Orin

lanceman · Post by **lanceman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:40 am

How do I get an official answer on this? That is after all the reason I posted this message in the first place.

Nancy D · Post by **Nancy D** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:23 am

In the explanation, the word "curiosity" contains a link to the cat picture.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:57 am

lanceman wrote:How do I get an official answer on this? That is after all the reason I posted this message in the first place.

No taunting intended; I clicked on the curicity link and saw your cat! I also was able to download Jupiter and the comet and set it as my walpaper with no trouble. Have you tried to redo the picture?
Orin

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:54 am

Nancy D wrote:In the explanation, the word "curiosity" contains a link to the cat picture.

check the image in question with the one that Nancy indicated. (the second hyperlink of the text under the curiosity hyperlink

lanceman · Post by **lanceman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:34 am

Yes, that's the picture in question. I still don't understand how it became my wallpaper though. I guess now it's a moot point since the wallpaper has again changed it is now correct for today.

Thanks for the input.

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:52 pm

Seems that APOD has just acquired a skittish trait.
See the previous day's APOD (http://www.afscme.org/issues/1363.cfm 29th Oct)) and click on the 'sunglasses' link in the last line.
John

lanceman · Post by **lanceman** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:59 am

JohnD that link is no good.

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:05 am

Go to the APOD for 29th OCt 2007.
Click on "sunglasses".
Works for me.

John

lanceman · Post by **lanceman** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:36 pm

What was the link you had in your post?

JohnD · Post by **JohnD** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:47 pm

An irrelevant webpage.

John

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:35 am

three cheers though for astronomical humor
EggHeads need a sence of humor too

Starship Asterisk*

APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related

APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related

Re: APOD pic for 10/30/07 not astronomy related

APOD pic for 10/30/07 not astronomy related

APOD pic for 10/30/07 not astronomy related

Re: APOD pic for 10/30/07 not astronomy related