Starship Asterisk*

owlice wrote:Chris, I'm embarrassed to say that I found it by color. :oops: I am happy to cede my turn for a new one to you!

Certainly not.

Even if I knew what it was, my inability to focus on a string of icons well enough to actually see it (right in front of me!) is unacceptable. Have at it!

owlice wrote:Correct APOD

Ever larger rocks are growing by colliding and accreting dust as the messy business of planet formation appears to be underway. For an Earth-like planet in such a hostile environment, the sky would be lit continuously with streaking meteors and the ground would rumble continuously with impacts.

So it is not unlike the U.S. Congress this weekend then as
the messy business of health care reform appears finally to be underway.

What APOD is this from?

With all due respect, neufer, can you not involve your local politics in a completely unrelated thread? We've run our course, we have a winner, there's no need to be posting at all.

It's best not to use hugely famous asterisms. Even if they are upside down. I'm the best part of intoxicated and I found that in around a minute of searching. Without any intent to offend you, I think that was way too easy. With this in mind I will waive my right to make the next one and let you have another go at it. You can do 16 with my blessing.

neufer's line made me laugh, so I appreciated it!

Chris, only because I found one easily (with feeling! and meaning!), I went ahead but really, I'd have been quite happy to pass the mantle (or magic helmet... whichever!).

Oh, no, please! You do it!

There are several reasons why I chose that picture; that the asterism is famous and would be easy for some was just a bonus!!

Which APOD is this rather attractive crop taken from?

Very good, you win.

I'd actually taken it from but it's a repeat anyway.

Nice crop it is.

#17 coming up, but if I get another of these, I really will cede to Chris!

Too much? Not enough? We'll find out!

makc wrote:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap951003.html

I think it would be useful if the winners would kindly explain by what process they achieved the right answers.

Well, that certainly didn't take long! Congrats, makc!

So the answer to my question is "too much."

owlice wrote:So the answer to my question is "too much."

Does that mean that next time you're going to post even smaller inset?

Seing that last rounds were apprently too easy, let's try to make it harder... or maybe 'different' is better word

any Hint? it looks like any bit of universe!

Yes! I'm thinkin' 4 pixels by 4 pixels.

Well I'm approaching this one by figuring out what that streak is at the bottom.

You sneaky barsoom! I'm very impressed.

HA! That didn't take you too long.

Well I initially searched (using APOD's own search) for space probe flybys, which got me nowhere. I used terms "CONTOUR", "cassini" (big mistake), "streak", "flyby" and "probe". Then I tried "satellite", which again got nowhere.

The only other thing I could think of which would make such a streak on the image was an asteroid, so I searched "asteroid" and a bit down the page, there it was. It was still very easily missed: I had to extract the frames to be sure I was right.

Again, well done.

This time I'm taking the image from the high-res version.

You don't need to tell me what it is, just the APOD it came from. Or any one of them, for APODs which have been repeated.