Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:55 pm
I often try to guess tomorrow's picture based on the clue given, and think it would be fun to share the rationale behind our guess!
Mercury!
Starship Asterisk*
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Tomorrow's APOD
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Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:56 pm
After I spend much time to hack the cryptic description about tomorrow's APOD, I think I succeed and we will see tomorrow:
Mercury!
Mercury!
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:36 am
Good call! I think you're right.Moonlady wrote:After I spend much time to hack the cryptic description about tomorrow's APOD, I think I succeed and we will see tomorrow:
Mercury!
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:02 am
I get scared when I see the Open Space ones. That means there isn't one yet. What if it doesn't get done by midnight? A scary thought.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:45 pm
Clue for tomorrows APOD: pixels in space.
Reminds me of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot".
"A mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam"
Earth imaged by Voyager 1 through Saturn's rings.
Reminds me of Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot".
"A mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam"
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:04 pm
(C) AP 
Yup, I'm sure the Associated Press owns the copyright to that image.
I think pixels in space is another one similar to open space. Too vague to make any determination.
...and, looking again, it's been updated to the exact name of the object in the next APOD. Talk about spoilers.
Yup, I'm sure the Associated Press owns the copyright to that image.
I think pixels in space is another one similar to open space. Too vague to make any determination.
...and, looking again, it's been updated to the exact name of the object in the next APOD. Talk about spoilers.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:37 pm
Not the original image, of course, but clearly the AP has exaggerated the Earth color.geckzilla wrote:
(C) AP
Yup, I'm sure the Associated Press owns the copyright to that image.
I think pixels in space is another one similar to open space indicatinggeckzilla wrote:
I think pixels in space is another one similar to open space. Too vague to make any determination.
...and, looking again, it's been updated to the exact name of the object in the next APOD. Talk about spoilers.
that no final determination had yet been made about tomorrow's APOD.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:21 pm
Now wait just a comet picking minute... today's APOD: 4-planet sunset, lists tomorrow's APOD as Sharpless 115. So just where the heck did the idea of pixels in space come from for tomorrow's APOD 
Once again I'm
. Did i once again miss something with my far sightedness
Once again I'm
. Did i once again miss something with my far sightedness Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:27 pm
That which was near changed while you were staring into the distance...Beyond wrote:Now wait just a comet picking minute... today's APOD: 4-planet sunset, lists tomorrow's APOD as Sharpless 115. So just where the heck did the idea of pixels in space come from for tomorrow's APOD :?: :?:
Once again I'm :? . Did i once again miss something with my far sightedness :?: :?: :lol2:
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:38 pm
Chris Peterson wrote:That which was near changed while you were staring into the distance...Beyond wrote:
Now wait just a comet picking minute... today's APOD: 4-planet sunset, lists tomorrow's APOD as Sharpless 115. So just where the heck did the idea of pixels in space come from for tomorrow's APOD
Once again I'm
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:12 pm
Hmm... perhaps for tomorrow's APOD, a ? mark or the word surprise should be used. Then everyone would find out what it is when they see it. If someone didn't care for doing it that way, they could always request and receive a refund.Chris Peterson wrote:That which was near changed while you were staring into the distance...Beyond wrote:Now wait just a comet picking minute... today's APOD: 4-planet sunset, lists tomorrow's APOD as Sharpless 115. So just where the heck did the idea of pixels in space come from for tomorrow's APOD
Once again I'm
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:17 pm
NO, NO, Neufer! That's the blue of Ann, NOT the green of Beyonder land.neufer wrote:Chris Peterson wrote:That which was near changed while you were staring into the distance...Beyond wrote:
Now wait just a comet picking minute... today's APOD: 4-planet sunset, lists tomorrow's APOD as Sharpless 115. So just where the heck did the idea of pixels in space come from for tomorrow's APOD
Once again I'm
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:04 pm
I'm afraid images don't get any redder than that one!Beyond wrote:NO, NO, Neufer! That's the blue of Ann, NOT the green of Beyonder land.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:11 pm
Or reader
It is a fair example of a stare at Beyonder land though, except that if the starer was actually seeing Beyonder land, the mouth would be open a lot wider in amazement
It is a fair example of a stare at Beyonder land though, except that if the starer was actually seeing Beyonder land, the mouth would be open a lot wider in amazement
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:11 pm
Beyond wrote:
Or reader
It is a fair example of a stare at Beyonder land though, except that if the starer was actually seeing Beyonder land, the mouth would be open a lot wider in amazement
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:05 pm
ha-ha-ha, um... no. He doesn't have that elevated stare of amazement. He has a look of shock that comes from all of a sudden finding himself beamed over to the Starship Asterisk*, away from the crooks that he was beating up on. Maybe you'd better not tell him you did it. He may still have stuff left over from one of the movies.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:20 am
Tomorrow's APOD (6/21/13) is listed as 'Solstice Scene'. I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess the sun will be in it.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:14 am
Beyond wrote:Tomorrow's APOD (6/21/13) is listed as 'Solstice Scene'. I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess the sun will be in it.
- Why would you say that? The instance of the June solstice occurs when most of the Western hemisphere is in the dark.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:31 am
As long as no cat-burning takes place, I'm fine with whatever... some Swedes dancing embarrassingly around a maypole would be amusing.
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:34 am
A May pole in June?
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 6:10 am
geckzilla wrote:As long as no cat-burning takes place, I'm fine with whatever... some Swedes dancing embarrassingly around a maypole would be amusing.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Ann
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:49 am
ha-ha, now you're doing a me. I didn't say that i would see it. I said that I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess the sun will be in it.bystander wrote:Beyond wrote:Tomorrow's APOD (6/21/13) is listed as 'Solstice Scene'. I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess the sun will be in it.
- Why would you say that? The instance of the June solstice occurs when most of the Western hemisphere is in the dark.
Isn't the sun always in a solstice, whether or not you actually get to see it
solstice.Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:50 am
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 3:13 pm
14 full moons ago:
I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess Supermoon?
6May2012 03:33 Moon at Perigee: 356954 km
I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess Supermoon?
6May2012 03:33 Moon at Perigee: 356954 km
Re: Tomorrow's APOD
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 3:59 pm
Good choicestephen63 wrote:14 full moons ago:
I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess Supermoon?
6May2012 03:33 Moon at Perigee: 356954 km
You need the extra light to help illuminate the end of that long limb to help you keep from getting 
and falling off it.