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Poll: Select the Astronomy Pic of the Week for May 9-15
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 10:50 am
by owlice
Re: Poll: Select the Astronomy Pic of the Week for May 9-15
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:14 pm
by owlice
If anyone would care to share what about an APOD secured his/her vote, I'd be very interested to read it!
For me, voting for an APOD is different from voting for a recently-submitted image, because I have the text to consider when voting for an APOD. One of the criteria for me is "What did I learn from this APOD?" or even better, "Does the image at which I'm looking advance knowledge or have the potential to advance our understanding?"
So though I found each of these images appealing in different ways, my choices really came down to the first three images, especially the second and third, and deciding between the SDO sun image and the Mimas image was very difficult! I think astronomers will learn tons from SDO; its capabilities are amazing!
But I voted for the Mimas image; to see something so far away in such exquisite detail astounds me, and the ability to see such detail will also increase our understanding of our universe (or at least our little corner of it).
Re: Poll: Select the Astronomy Pic of the Week for May 9-15
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:37 am
by rstevenson
As usual, I voted for one of the losing images -- M72. (Of course, none of them are losers in a broader sense.)
I always vote for an image of an expanse of stars, if one's available. I spent my youth looking at smudgy, grainy blobs of stars in musty old books, and the current availability of these amazingly detailed images never fails to enthral me. Thinking about what they represent -- tens of thousands, sometimes millions of stars and their possible panetary systems and [not very] possible inhabitants entrances me. And I mean that literally -- more than once I've stared at such an image for a quarter hour or more before remembering I was doing something else.
So keep them globular clusters coming!
Rob
Re: Poll: Select the Astronomy Pic of the Week for May 9-15
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 3:48 pm
by Hofi
I voted for #7 because of the colors and the high resolution!