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Today's APOD

So, who took the survey?

Aesthetics & Astronomy



I did!

Indigo_Sunrise wrote:So, who took the survey?

Went there! Did that!

What's with the postal code, age, and gender questions at the beginning?

jesusfreak16 wrote:What's with the postal code, age, and gender questions at the beginning?

Either looking for categorical biases or checking to see how representative the respondants are of a cross section of society.

I just took it, but I have to admit, I felt a little bad giving my honest impression that the red zones of the first image seemed warmer than the blue zones, despite it being backwards from the standpoint of a black body analogy.

I took it too. I like to wonder what the survey folks are trying to figure out with the questions they choose. The lab rat studying the researcher.

I took it too. I also answered about the "Red" looking warmer than the "Blue" but this is just the effect of seeing "Fire Red" and "Ice Blue"

I heard the "sun rose" and the "wind blue".

(But maybe we should ask Indigo about Violet.)

BMAONE23 wrote:I took it too. I also answered about the "Red" looking warmer than the "Blue" but this is just the effect of seeing "Fire Red" and "Ice Blue"

I said I thought the blue looked warmer because the centre of it was red.
Just to be awkward.
I tried to ignore the text as I thought some of it might be leading me into a decision. I just concentrated on the pictures and closed my mind to everything else.
Maybe I tried too hard?
Have I done the wrong thing?
Will I get into trouble?

Have a beer. And rest

I must say: I stated that I felt the blue areas were 'warmer' and red areas 'cooler', only because of what I've learned reading sites such as this! 8)


And I don't know no 'Violet'!



(And Happy Halloween all!!!)

Indigo_Sunrise wrote:And I don't know no 'Violet'!



(And Happy Halloween all!!!)

Wikipedia wrote:(It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!)

During trick-or-treating, everyone else gets assorted candy, gum, apples, cookies, popcorn balls, and even money. But at every house, Charlie Brown gets the same thing - a rock. After tricks-or-treats, and another quick stop at the pumpkin patch to rib Linus and Sally again, the gang all go off to Violet's Halloween party.

P.S. I only know musical Italian, and a literal translation of your signature line does me not much good. Is it a cryptic message for your own personal enjoyment, or can you illuminate it a little more for the rest of us?

I took it also; and I believe a hotter fire burns blue. so I answered accordingly.

Orin

Yeah, but I thought this was aesthetics not science. When they taught me to be an artist in grade K, they told me ROY were warm colors and GBV were cold colors (sorry, "I", there was no "I" in grade K tempera paints).

Hello All,

Took a breather from the Forum to dig into a chess opening for a coupla months but kept up with you for the most part. Hope Halloweening was fun for all of you! I felt I should be true to my moniker but getting around in an astrolabe suit........well, let's put it this way, the only thing harder was FINDING one!! Heavy too.......kidding of course.

My favorite pic o' the week was http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081031.html

Took the survey and yes, red was hot and blue was cold, what can I say.
Hope all of you are well.

apodman,
Thank you for the refresher on the Charlie Brown Halloween special. I'd forgotten much of it! 8)

And to your P.S., I was given the sig line idea from a friend, who told me it's Latin for (roughly), "It's sweet to do nothing". [I actually wanted to add the caveat: 'but look at the stars', except I, unlike you, don't know much Latin (or Italian), musical or otherwise.....]

Cheers, and clear skies!

Indigo_Sunrise wrote:And to your P.S., I was given the sig line idea from a friend, who told me it's Latin for (roughly), "It's sweet to do nothing". [I actually wanted to add the caveat: 'but look at the stars', except I, unlike you, don't know much Latin (or Italian), musical or otherwise.....]

I think it's probably Italian, not Latin. According to a literal translation by WorldLingo from English to Italian "it is sweet to do nothing but look at the stars" translates to "è dolce non fare niente ma guardare le stelle".

A couple of different "Facts" can also lead to the belief that the Red objects are hotter than the Blue ones.
1) Glowing energized Hydrogen (likely heated by the fast moving stellar winds [friction]) is depicted as red (presumably because the (H alpha?) lens cover imparts the red hue) in most nebulae.
2) Blue reflection nebulae are indicating cooler dust particles by reflected light.
Red = Hot, Blue = cool