help locating picture of the day

oceanpoetry · Post by **oceanpoetry** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:26 am

Hi,
I am hoping one of you can help me with locating the original picture of the day - or even a way to locate it in the archives of NASA pics. The original name is M9YeILmd-i8pLA8iQocVSvC2S-QOQw7sv2_jeqH9Tt1yqEnFq-W7UQWpQr1fkWvD.jpg - is there anything in this name that would help to locate the original picture.

Thanks very much for any help you can give with this!

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:00 am

I tried and failed. All I can offer you is this.

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:50 pm

oceanpoetry wrote:... M9YeILmd-i8pLA8iQocVSvC2S-QOQw7sv2_jeqH9Tt1yqEnFq-W7UQWpQr1fkWvD.jpg ...

That name is pretty meaningless to me. Perhaps if you told us a little more about the picture. What was the subject matter? When was it an APOD?

Apodman, I wonder what the message was for the 1960s Oui Captain Jet Decoder Ring, and what kind of ring it was.

oceanpoetry · Post by **oceanpoetry** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:55 pm

I have a copy of this pic 4k on my desktop - is there a way to upload and include with the post? Maybe someone will recognize the picture and point me to the date originally posted.

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:33 pm

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

The above is the url for the APOD archives. If your picture is an APOD it should be on the list. You said original picture. Do you mean the first APOD? Your numbers and letters have little meaning; even when I placed them in Google search. I could not find anything.

Orin

Case · Post by **Case** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:40 pm

oceanpoetry wrote:is there a way to upload and include with the post?

Upload to e.g. ImageShack and post the link here.

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:51 pm

Here's the original provided by oceanpoetry (96x96 pixels):

Here's an enlargement (192x192 pixels):

I would start my APOD search with nebula, but the results say:

'Astronomy Picture of the Day
Search Results for "nebula"
Found 844 items.
Displaying 200 of them.'

Okay, but there's no link to the other 644 items not displayed. I'm disappointed in that feature. Happy hunting.

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:34 pm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q ... afe=images

Did a google search on the inage name given and only had 1 hit. (this apod thread)

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:42 pm

Both the trifid nebula and Key hole nebula have similar looking features as the image posted by apodman

oceanpoetry · Post by **oceanpoetry** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:09 pm

thanks for your help everyone! I found the original using the archive that shows a monthly index of photos - it was posted March 12, 2008.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/ca0803.html
This link is really useful if you're looking for an old APOD![/url]

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:17 pm

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080312.html

Orin

apodman · Post by **apodman** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:48 pm

... from http://heritage.stsci.edu/2006/55/fast_facts.html

oceanpoetry · Post by **oceanpoetry** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:58 pm

Thank you for finding additional information about this image - that is really interesting! 160,000 light years again - that is amazing!