Starship Asterisk*

It looks like quetzalcoatl...

It's Norway, so it's a Viking ship, of course. Maybe a ghost ship from Valhalla coming back for a Halloween visit?

I would say a cobra, or maybe a seahorse

Taken in Norway? I wonder what the fox would say about it?

a headless swan, perhaps

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.

to me it looks like a dolphin or a sailfish jumping out of the water - not scary at all, just beautiful

The Giant Spirit of the Wonder Swann, who rise to bring strange beauty in the world...

It's the Great Snake which lies wrapped around the roots of the Norse World Tree.

Angel of Light

I saw a serpent. Specifically a Pokemon called Serperior. Pokemon, no; serpent, yes.

It's obviously a flying fish...

I'm pretty sure this is the water dragon Dyino.

Looks like a swan to me.

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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!!

Heaven's Swan

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)

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

It is a leaping sailfish, great Pict, thank you!

Nah! You're all wrong. It's just a nice little critter that snuck out of BEYONDER LAND.

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...

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.

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.

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.