I notice that some of the pics have been inside of [img] tags, but others inside of [attachment] tags. Is one preferred? If attachment is preferred, how do I do that? I don't see an attachment tag button in the post interface.
Rob
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #11
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:39 pm
by bystander
At the bottom of the post a new topic or post a reply are tabs for options and upload attachments. Select the upload attachments tab and follow the instructions. The last step is to select place inline which places your uploaded attachment on the page within the [attachment] tags. There is no real preference, except [img] assumes a permanent link to an image hosting site.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #11
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:17 pm
by geckzilla
Yes, sorry, been a bit busy. Bystander is correct. Start the next one, Rob!
What is it? Space mystery object #12
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:42 am
by rstevenson
Okay, first time for me to tease the experts. The mystery will probably last only a few minutes, but who knows, I may get them snagged on irrelevancies.
This one is obviously within a certain kind of object, but the questions are...
Which object is it within?
What, in particular, are we looking at?
And, of course, which APOD is it from?
<<Inscribed on Athena's shield is a Latin motto,
. *OBSCURIS VERA INVOLVENS*
.
meaning *TRUTH is enveloped in obscurity* , which explains
. the imagery on the shield-the central sun representing
. TRUTH and the surrounding clouds obscurity.>>
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #12
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:39 am
by rstevenson
neufer wrote:<<...the central sun ... and the surrounding clouds obscurity.>>
Yes, exactly!
Does this mean I've stumped the experts? What do I win?
Perhaps I should offer up some nebulous clues...
* I should at least tell you it is within one of the most easily seen and most often photographed of the nebulae.
* I started from an extremely large image -- in the neighbourhood of 130MB on disk -- and cut only a small piece out of it. (It's a fun image to browse in.)
* It is, perhaps obviously, a star-forming region, and the central object is a new(ish) star. I doubt if it has a name, but coordinates would do as identifier.
* I have no idea what the red dots are.
Rob
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #12
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:24 pm
by makc
must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #12
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:36 pm
by neufer
makc wrote:must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it
You're no Clyde Tombaugh!
(One would have to be blind not to see it! I think I can even see it here.)
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #12
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 3:05 pm
by bystander
rstevenson wrote: * I have no idea what the red dots are.
Stars!
makc wrote:must be somewhere in here, overall colors and spike angles match, but I can't really seem to find it oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it
GLOUCESTER: 'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
What is it? Space mystery object #13
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:21 pm
by makc
I only had to enter words "pink" and "apod" in g0ogle to find an image in #12, and didn't really find the star in it. But people insist that I should post next one. They probably all are a bit triskaidekaphobs deep inside.
Oh well, here's my choice:
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What could be more mysterious than a lonely bright thing in a black background Oh wait, it is not alone there, there's two of them... both are rather famous objects.
Re: What is it? Space mystery object #12
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:22 pm
by makc
neufer, now it's other way around: blind leading madmen any way, here you go.
oh well, but, maybe I did narrowed it down enough for someone to spot it 
any way, here you go.
