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APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 06)
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:09 am
by APOD Robot
Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern Night
Explanation: Have you ever seen the night sky change? It does -- sometimes in beautiful and unexpected ways. To see it, though, usually requires patience. The above
award winning video shows several of the possible changes in dramatic fashion with a time lapse video. Visible are sunset-illuminated
clouds moving, stars of vivid
colors rising, the long tail of a
Comet Lovejoy rising, bright
satellites crossing, a
meteor exploding, a distant lightning
storm approaching, skyscapes including the
Magellanic Clouds rotating, and a
fisheye sky rotating while the foreground becomes illuminated by moonlight. Frequently featuring an artistic human sculpture in the foreground and the southern sky in the background,
the video closes with a time lapse clip of a
total lunar eclipse. If you can identify any more of the
sky events depicted -- or any of the landscapes shown -- please illuminate them with
a comment.
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Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:46 am
by paul_adams777
The scenes near the start with silhouetted rocks that lighten to show yellow / orange sands with sandstone pillars are almost definitely at a location called The Pinnacles on the coastal sand-dunes inland from Grey in Western Australia - roughly 100 miles NNW of Perth. Google Earth has some good images. Search for The Pinnacles, Western Australia.
There are no brightly lit towns for miles around there, making it an ideal place for astronomical observation.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:12 am
by A venti
To drunk to get it all. Stop thinking so hard. Get a grip. We're all still stuck on this rock!!!!!! Either make something of metal or dont. Get us off this rock. Peace yo
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:43 am
by DrMick
1:25 appears to be the Bungle Bungles. 1:45 might be stromatolites at Shark Bay. Both are in Western Australia
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:16 am
by hooray beer
That's no sculpture...
I, for one, welcome our welcome our artistic alien overlords
Those fast moving wispy things look like they are clouds, or galaxies, and I think I see some dark matter in there also...
Some of those clouds look like they might have sprites, gnomes, and even ELVES!
1:44 doesn't fool me, it has to be a lake on Mars, just discovered.
Seriously, this is some fantastic work here, reminiscient of anima mundi, no wonder it has won awards. Congratulations, hope to see more.
P.S. I know this is a little off topic, but this seems like an astronomy forum (captcha told me), and I was wondering, does Uranus have an Aurora
Borealis? I never oserved it directly, but am guessing it does.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:34 pm
by Brewer
I especially liked the Southern Cross rising over the snow caped volcano. Such a simple constellation to have such a grip on me.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:37 pm
by Beyond
Two minutes just isn't long enough!
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:46 pm
by Barta IV
At 1:55 there is something at the 10 o'clock position near the moon moving up perpendicular to the movement of the stars, what is it?
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:30 pm
by Mr Ballard
At 59 seconds the lake is named after my family.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:02 pm
by neufer
hooray beer wrote:
That's no sculpture...
I, for one, welcome our welcome our artistic alien overlords
[c]Those guys will have to compete for Earth
against Wenlock and Mandeville first 
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Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:49 pm
by Anthony Barreiro
hooray beer wrote:...
P.S. I know this is a little off topic, but this seems like an astronomy forum (captcha told me), and I was wondering, does Uranus have an Aurora Borealis? I never oserved it directly, but am guessing it does.
Yes,
an aurora has been seen on Uranus.
And no, you're not likely to observe it with an amateur telescope.
spoiler
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:55 pm
by Anthony Barreiro
I think tomorrow's apod might be this
wheel on Mars.
Re: spoiler
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:16 pm
by neufer
Anthony Barreiro wrote:
I think tomorrow's apod might be this
wheel on Mars.
No one will be interested in this shot tomorrow. (Instant obsolescence.)
It'll be rather the unique
MRO parachute landing shot.
Unless, that is, APOD could somehow photoshop
Matt Harding into the
JPL celebration.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:48 pm
by none
There is no image.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:47 pm
by Winslow1191
When I put my cursor on the still shot, the screen goes blank. WassUp?
Re: spoiler
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:01 pm
by Anthony Barreiro
neufer wrote:Anthony Barreiro wrote:
I think tomorrow's apod might be this
wheel on Mars.
No one will be interested in this shot tomorrow. (Instant obsolescence.)
It'll be rather the unique
MRO parachute landing shot.
Hmmph. Mars Reconaissance Orbiter always gets all the glory. Mars Odyssey gets my vote for best supporting spacecraft: Odyssey was in position to receive radio communications from Curiosity during descent and landing, sent the first confirmation of successful landing, and relayed the first pictures.
How about Matt Harding and Charles Bolden jitterbugging together?
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:01 pm
by bystander
none wrote:There is no image.
Winslow1191 wrote:When I put my cursor on the still shot, the screen goes blank. WassUp?
It's a video, be patient. You need to have
Flash Player installed to view it and it may take a while for the video to load. I usually have better luck going to the source to view it.
http://vimeo.com/45856570
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:16 pm
by imontheinternet
lol! I guess especially because this is ASTRONOMY pic of the day afterall - so if aliens were to be discovered it would be in this field if any - thought the 'disturbing' figure in the water was an alien!
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:40 pm
by azhad
Brewer wrote:I especially liked the Southern Cross rising over the snow caped volcano. Such a simple constellation to have such a grip on me.
I find the Southern Cross nice too. The one reason I watched the video again. I'm at the equator, so don't get the chance to see it upside down.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:09 pm
by NoelC
What beauty and wonder to see the world through digital eyes better than our own and so easily able to compress time so as to animate the sky and Earth.
-Noel
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:14 am
by totalnewbie
No one recognizes the alien planet as Uyuni?
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:30 am
by mikeyralph68
Did you notice the two small satellites to the left of the Moon once it starts to go dim during the eclipse? They both are traveling upwards while the Moon is dim. Maybe meteorites? or maybe Artificial?
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:41 pm
by mirtomlia
The sculptures on a salt lake - Lake Ballard Western Australia - the Antony Gormley Sculptures are displyed in the largest out door gallery -- the sculptures are scattered over the 10km salt lake in the Shire of Menzies. The sculptures are modeled on residents of the local area of Menzies. An amazing but eerie place. The night sky is unbelievable.
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:49 pm
by neufer
mirtomlia wrote:
The sculptures on a salt lake - Lake Ballard Western Australia - the Antony Gormley Sculptures are displyed in the largest out door gallery -- the sculptures are scattered over the 10km salt lake in the Shire of Menzies. The sculptures are modeled on residents of the local area of Menzies.
That sure doesn't look like a hobbit to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ballard wrote:
Lake Ballard is an ephemeral salt lake. In 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Perth International Arts Festival the Inside Australia exhibition was commissioned. The artist and Turner Prize winner Antony Gormley installed 51 sculptures over an area of 10 square kilometres on the bed of the lake. The statues were to be removed at the conclusion of the festival but remain as a tourist exhibition.
Lake Ballard is used as a breeding site for Banded Stilts following major flood events. The stilts nest in large close-packed colonies on low islands in ephemeral inland salt lakes such as Lake Eyre, Lake Barlee and Lake Ballard. The last recorded nesting on the lake was in 1995 following the aftermath of Cyclone Bobby.
The Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) is a nomadic stilt from Australia. It belongs to the monotypical genus Cladorhynchus. It gets its name from the red-brown breast band found on breeding adults, but this is mottled or entirely absent in non-breeding adults and juveniles. Its remaining plumage is pied and the eyes are dark brown. They breed whenever the water conditions are suitable and lay 3-4 white, brown or black eggs on a scrape.>>
Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:53 pm
by Jim J
One Word.... Thanks...
