Starship Asterisk*

Sonja wrote:Though I appreciate the daily posts and especially the effort that goes into their presentation, I must tell you that photos with such blatant "credit" lines as the one posted today (Volcano and Aurora in Iceland, © Sigurður H. Stefnisson!) seriously detract from the experience. It prevents no one from reusing the photo, since such a line can be removed or at least cropped, and represents - at least in my view - yet another painfully annoying example of internet narcissism. Frankly, I'm not interested in the author of the photo, only the content. I hope you will consider this point of view when selecting APOD photos in future. Thank you.

Ann wrote:

Sonja wrote:Though I appreciate the daily posts and especially the effort that goes into their presentation, I must tell you that photos with such blatant "credit" lines as the one posted today (Volcano and Aurora in Iceland, © Sigurður H. Stefnisson!) seriously detract from the experience. It prevents no one from reusing the photo, since such a line can be removed or at least cropped, and represents - at least in my view - yet another painfully annoying example of internet narcissism. Frankly, I'm not interested in the author of the photo, only the content. I hope you will consider this point of view when selecting APOD photos in future. Thank you.

I beg to differ, Sonja. APOD always gives credit to the photographer, which is fair and proper. In this case the photographer chose to put his own name on his picture. That was his choice, and his name wasn't put there by the people responsible for choosing pictures to present on this site. Clearly they didn't think that his name on the picture detracted from the quality of the image, and I don't see that it does, either.

Ann

Moonlady wrote:Credits and Copyrights are rules for everyone which make sense, non webpage is allowed to show content and present it as owner of it. I even like to see who did the great job!
And if there is a link from the contributer, I also like to visit and explore

orin stepanek wrote:
I watched the videos; I was quite in wonderment of the one where firemen were spraying water on the lava flow! I mean; why even try! The building was going to go down regardless!

Sonja wrote:Though I appreciate the daily posts and especially the effort that goes into their presentation, I must tell you that photos with such blatant "credit" lines as the one posted today (Volcano and Aurora in Iceland, © Sigurður H. Stefnisson!) seriously detract from the experience.

Chris Peterson wrote:

Sonja wrote:
Though I appreciate the daily posts and especially the effort that goes into their presentation, I must tell you that photos with such blatant "credit" lines as the one posted today (Volcano and Aurora in Iceland, © Sigurður H. Stefnisson!) seriously detract from the experience.

I agree. Placing a name and copyright notice directly on an image is a poor aesthetic decision, and usually serves no purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF][size=115]Abraham Ortelius' 1585 map of Iceland showing Hekla in eruption. The Latin text translates as '[i]The Hekla, perpetually condemned to storms and snow, vomits stones under terrible noise.[/i][/size]'[/color][/b]

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<<In Icelandic Hekla is the word for a short hooded cloak which may relate to the frequent cloud cover on the summit. An early Latin source refers to the mountain as Mons Casule.

After the eruption of 1104, stories (which were probably spread deliberately through Europe by Cistercian monks) told that Hekla was the gateway to Hell. The Cistercian monk Herbert of Clairvaux wrote in his De Miraculis (without naming Hekla):

The renowned fiery cauldron of Sicily, which men call Hell's chimney ... that cauldron is affirmed to be like a small furnace compared to this enormous inferno.
—Herbert of Clairvaux, Liber De Miraculis, 1180

A poem by the monk Benedeit from circa 1120 about the voyages of Saint Brendan mentions Hekla as the prison of Judas. The Flatey Book Annal wrote of the 1341 eruption that people saw large and small birds flying in the mountain's fire which were taken to be souls. In the 16th century Caspar Peucer wrote that the Gates of Hell could be found in "the bottomless abyss of Hekla Fell". The belief that Hekla was the gate to Hell persisted until the 1800s. There is still a legend that witches gather on Hekla for Easter.>>

Psnarf wrote:
Steganography?

Sew! howcome when you click on the image, you get a smaller image?

The html code shows the linked image is 625px×444px
while the main image is 960px×682px?

• In order to make "Sigurður H. Stefnisson" less obstrusive.
  
  So what is the constellation in the background?

• What is the planet in the upper right corner?

Psnarf wrote:Steganography?
Sew! howcome when you click on the image, you get a smaller image?
The html code shows the linked image is 625px×444px while the main image is 960px×682px?

APOD Robot wrote:
Is Earth the Solar System's only planet with both auroras and volcanos?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Venus wrote:
<<The surface of Venus is dominated by volcanism and has produced more volcanoes than any other planet in the solar system. It has a surface that is 90% basalt, and about 65% of the planet consists of a mosaic of volcanic lava plains, indicating that volcanism played a major role in shaping its surface. The planet may have had a major global resurfacing event about 500 million years ago, from what scientists can tell from the density of impact craters on the surface. Even though there are over 1,600 major volcanoes on Venus, none are known to be erupting at present and most are probably long extinct. However, radar sounding by the Magellan probe revealed evidence for comparatively recent volcanic activity at Venus's highest volcano Maat Mons, in the form of ash flows near the summit and on the northern flank.>>

neufer wrote:Many Volcanoes Erupt Mulberry Jam Sandwiches Under Normal Pressure.

APOD Robot wrote:Is Earth the Solar System's only planet with both auroras and volcanos?