Starship Asterisk*

Chris Peterson wrote:
I also caught Comet ISON rising. See it in the above image? It's right at the tip of the Ponderosa branch in the lower left hand corner. The bright star there is Spica, and it forms the top of a little equilateral triangle. Down and to the right is a 5.3 magnitude star, and almost blocked by tip of the branch is ISON.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treebeard wrote: The description of Treebeard in The Two Towers:

<<One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don't know but it felt as if something that grew in the ground — asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between root-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.>>

Beyond wrote:I can't make out the comet and/or tail. But what a view you've got, way up yonder :!:

Beyond wrote:
Ah, now that you've pointed out the tail, it's somewhat obvious. When you said ISON was almost hidden by the branch, i had two more candidates to chose from. Come to find out that the two other choices are just little specks on my monitor screen that just happened to line up with the branch also. I'd clean the screen, but it's one of those liquid display screens, so i just dust it off once in a while.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200303A17.html wrote:
The Antiques Road Show

GUEST: No, I never... I never cleaned it. I always had intentions of cleaning it, but I never got around to it.

APPRAISER: So, I wanted to tell you that it's a good thing you didn't clean it, because that would have really destroyed value.

Beyond wrote:
Yeah, it would have been alright IF i had an antique monitor

geckzilla wrote:I find it useful to wipe down an LCD screen with a damp cloth. Nothing that will drip down, of course. Using an ammonia-based cleaner actually makes it worse because it leaves residue but plain water is great.

neufer wrote:

Beyond wrote:
Yeah, it would have been alright IF i had an antique monitor

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 90#p214290

Nitpicker wrote:Two days later, it dawns on me that Gallipoli Barracks is beyond the ridge in my two sunrise photos, above. The Australian Army's official insignia is the Rising Sun badge:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(badge)

Click to view full size image

stephen63 wrote:"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

Nitpicker wrote:Hi geckzilla,

After your editing, am I supposed to see a hover image? Because I now just see an "x" image marker, with a caption to view full size image 1 or 2. I don't geddit.

Nitpicker wrote:Resolved. I had my IE 10 running in compatibility mode (for reasons that I cannot remember, but which will probably become jarringly apparent on some other websites). When I switch that mode off, I see the hover image. Thanks.

(Beyond, I'd avoid automatic windows update.)

Beyond wrote:

Nitpicker wrote:(Beyond, I'd avoid automatic windows update.)

Oh yeah, i do have IE 11. As for the auto-updater, I'd rather have it that way. When you do them manually, they tend to screw up, like the one i just found waiting for me. In manual mode, sometimes the damn things stop before they finish installing. A real pain in the 7th planet Auto doesn't do that.