Starship Asterisk*

Congrats, makc!

Chris, my apologies! What was the bad clue?

owlice wrote:Chris, my apologies! What was the bad clue?

You said it was a good thing I wasn't very confident in my thinking this was a rendering of some sort, and not an actual astronomical image. Did I misunderstand something there? There were enough negated negatives to be a little confusing.

Anyway, I stopped looking at paintings and renderings and started focusing on images of actual objects.

Ah! The object at which you were looking -- the yellow disk or sphere quadrant -- is an astronomical image, not a rendering of it. (I'm confident that it came from the May 4, 2005 APOD, rotated and flipped vertically and with the edge-on rings and moon removed.) My apologies for not making that clearer; I was responding solely to what you posted about the yellow disk or sphere.

I had hoped that the background (brown rather than black) and the bisecting thingie would be enough to get people to start looking at something other than photographs. I meant to make this a challenge, but not quite so much of one. SO hard to get the balance right (for me, anyway!)!

Something easy for a change. Also should make a nice sample of pictures to browse through while searching.

makc wrote:Something easy for a change.

That's for sure. It was sitting in my little folder of candidates for the next time I post a puzzle! Guess I'll delete it.

yes that was it.

Chris, i guess you won!
don't you wanna post another one?
it was a cool game, is it over?

Amir wrote:Chris, i guess you won!
don't you wanna post another one?
it was a cool game, is it over?

Nope. Just taking my time. Patience, my friend. <g>

waiting...
but i'm wondering what would that be which took you that long? Gods may help us!!

Just something I was wondering all the time. Do people actually bother to go and look for mystery objects that have been already found? Do we have to use those spoiler tags?

only 4 votes on my poll and all are negative. I don't think spoilers are necessary.

Is this post now dead? If someone would tell me how to create an image in here I would be more than happy to post another, because this was a brilliant game!

wonderboy wrote:Is this post now dead? If someone would tell me how to create an image in here I would be more than happy to post another, because this was a brilliant game!

Thanks once again Amir.


Paul

Okay, enough whining about the delay. This one pulls out all the stops on underhanded crops, and I hope it will give me a few days respite.

some galaxy shit, too chaotic for jupiter shot. looks like this one color-wise, but wrong picture

Ooooh, this is a toughie!

I have looked at every APOD thumbnail that exists and every APOD image with brown in it, and have not found it! So I have questions... I have questions!

Chris, did you manipulate the image/crop in any way? Is the size of the crop true to the image from which it was taken? Has the orientation been changed? Was it taken from the APOD image itself, or an image that the APOD image links to?

Cross-eyed in DC,

Owl

owlice wrote:Chris, did you manipulate the image/crop in any way? Is the size of the crop true to the image from which it was taken? Has the orientation been changed? Was it taken from the APOD image itself, or an image that the APOD image links to?

The image is cropped from the larger image the APOD links to. That is the only thing done- no changes to color, orientation, etc. And the larger image is just that- a bigger version of the view shown on the main APOD page, not a different image or some sort of link error.

I chose this particular image to stimulate some additional discussion on another thread that was very active, but hasn't been lately.

Chris, thank you!

Chris Peterson wrote:Okay, enough whining about the delay. This one pulls out all the stops on underhanded crops, and I hope it will give me a few days respite.

smo31.jpg

Has someone already answered this?
It looks like a small crop of NGC 253. The dust lanes of this galaxy are spectacular.
Adam Block

ngc1535 wrote:Has someone already answered this?
It looks like a small crop of NGC 253. The dust lanes of this galaxy are spectacular.

No. in this game you should be the first one to find the APOD image, that this has been cropped from.
after finding the APOD, you have to post the link here. then you are going to choose a crop for next round.
if you think it's a part of NGC 253, search it in APOD Search and post the link here.

ngc1535 wrote:Has someone already answered this?
It looks like a small crop of NGC 253. The dust lanes of this galaxy are spectacular.

No, it isn't NGC 253.

Here's a little hint: I chose this image because it's relevant to this discussion, and I thought it might stimulate some more posts there. If somebody doesn't get the answer in the next day or so, I'll be very disappointed!

I'll bet!
I think someone has some explaining to do!

will it rain tomorrow, Chris?
you must have taught us how to use a time machine.
really, how some folks can access future APODs?

Chris Peterson wrote:This one pulls out all the stops on underhanded crops

Master of understatement! (Totally cracked me up!)

You have writ a little poem perfect for your sig:

• I pulled out all the stops
  On underhanded crops

So true, too!!

Since the tide has turned to underhanded (<g>) and in anticipation of being declared the winner of this round of SMO, I submit this puzzle for the next round of the game.