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Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:23 pm
by Dixieflatline75
It looks like quetzalcoatl...
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:40 pm
by Daver
It's Norway, so it's a Viking ship, of course. Maybe a ghost ship from Valhalla coming back for a Halloween visit?
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:51 pm
by Eldyryn
I would say a cobra, or maybe a seahorse
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:24 pm
by Guest
Taken in Norway? I wonder what the fox would say about it?
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:43 pm
by stringali
a headless swan, perhaps
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:50 pm
by Chris Peterson
Rikk wrote:Super pic but aren't the colours formed from oxygen and nitrogen?
Yes, that seems like an error in the caption. Atomic oxygen at high altitudes, molecular nitrogen and oxygen as we get lower. There
is hydrogen in the upper atmosphere, and it can produce visible aurora emissions, but certainly most of what we see is from oxygen and nitrogen.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:58 pm
by middlekid
to me it looks like a dolphin or a sailfish jumping out of the water - not scary at all, just beautiful
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:01 pm
by Roxane
The Giant Spirit of the Wonder Swann, who rise to bring strange beauty in the world...
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:03 pm
by Jane
It's the Great Snake which lies wrapped around the roots of the Norse World Tree.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:14 pm
by bugg1957
Angel of Light
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:15 pm
by NightStar
I saw a serpent. Specifically a Pokemon called Serperior. Pokemon, no; serpent, yes.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:24 pm
by Mllefifi
It's obviously a flying fish...
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:45 pm
by Jjensen17
I'm pretty sure this is the water dragon Dyino.
![Image](http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj531/jdjensen17/zpsa360e5a7.jpg)
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:08 pm
by jenx3401
Looks like a swan to me.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:11 pm
by Dyino
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:32 pm
by Ron-Astro Pharmacist
Reply with quoteRe: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
by middlekid » Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:58 pm
to me it looks like a dolphin or a sailfish jumping out of the water - not scary at all, just beautiful
I agree. That was my impression too!!
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:38 pm
by Billsey
Heaven's Swan
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:43 pm
by The Vanished Baker
GavinW wrote:Definitely a Snark of the Boojum variety.
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. (
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll ... index.html)
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:35 pm
by RJN
Rikk wrote:Super pic but aren't the colours formed from oxygen and nitrogen?
Yes. Oops. Glitch in the wet-ware. Of course it is nitrogen. Fixed it. Thank you! - RJN
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:25 pm
by Iamrocketjock
It is a leaping sailfish, great Pict, thank you!
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 11:43 pm
by Beyond
Nah! You're all wrong. It's just a nice little critter that snuck out of
BEYONDER LAND.
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:41 am
by lachablis@gmail.com
hello out there!...this is a comment and Question from a very very new observer in Kansas...
thank-you,firstly,for a most dazzling picture!!...and whether I 'see' images or not in that awesome pic,i am only tooo happy to be a part of its magnificence!!...
I do have a Question,however...as i look up into the clear sky,this evening [6:34pm or 1834 hours] on this November06,I see the sliver of the moon[quite bright] and to the lower left of the moon [SW or SSW[ of it,is a bright planet? which,through my binoculars,looks somewhat like a cross?!...my imagination or is that real??...and if it is a lovely planet,could someone inform me as to which it is??..i am truly a novice at this...i would appreciate some direction as to books or charts or anything in material/physical form that i can arrange on my walls to follow the 'sky'...
thanks for your indulgence...
kansas...
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:00 am
by Nitpicker
lachablis@gmail.com wrote:hello out there!...this is a comment and Question from a very very new observer in Kansas...
thank-you,firstly,for a most dazzling picture!!...and whether I 'see' images or not in that awesome pic,i am only tooo happy to be a part of its magnificence!!...
I do have a Question,however...as i look up into the clear sky,this evening [6:34pm or 1834 hours] on this November06,I see the sliver of the moon[quite bright] and to the lower left of the moon [SW or SSW[ of it,is a bright planet? which,through my binoculars,looks somewhat like a cross?!...my imagination or is that real??...and if it is a lovely planet,could someone inform me as to which it is??..i am truly a novice at this...i would appreciate some direction as to books or charts or anything in material/physical form that i can arrange on my walls to follow the 'sky'...
thanks for your indulgence...
kansas...
It is most definitely the planet Venus. I am a little surprised it appeared as a cross in your binoculars, but that could be what is known as a diffraction spike, caused by the particular optics of your binoculars. If properly resolved, Venus's current phase makes it appear as a half-circle, much like a first-quarter Moon.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:08 am
by Chris Peterson
lachablis@gmail.com wrote:hello out there!...this is a comment and Question from a very very new observer in Kansas...
thank-you,firstly,for a most dazzling picture!!...and whether I 'see' images or not in that awesome pic,i am only tooo happy to be a part of its magnificence!!...
I do have a Question,however...as i look up into the clear sky,this evening [6:34pm or 1834 hours] on this November06,I see the sliver of the moon[quite bright] and to the lower left of the moon [SW or SSW[ of it,is a bright planet? which,through my binoculars,looks somewhat like a cross?!...my imagination or is that real??...and if it is a lovely planet,could someone inform me as to which it is??..i am truly a novice at this...i would appreciate some direction as to books or charts or anything in material/physical form that i can arrange on my walls to follow the 'sky'...
That would be Venus. Telescopically, it is currently crescent shaped, similar to the Moon. If you're seeing a cross, it's either aberration in the binocular optics, or in your eyes.
Re: APOD: Creature Aurora Over Norway (2013 Nov 06)
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:21 am
by Nitpicker
Chris Peterson wrote:That would be Venus. Telescopically, it is currently crescent shaped, similar to the Moon.
Venus is currently only just past its maximum Eastern Elongation from the Sun, so it is only slightly crescent-shaped at the moment -- it looks more like a half-circle to me. I was photographing it (poorly) last week.