Starship Asterisk*

geckzilla wrote:Another HDR style image to mess with our brains. Hopefully the movie screen isn't 6.5 times its actual size in this scene.

Nitpicker wrote:It is possible that in the 1950s, drive-in movie screens were closer than they are today. That might explain why hardly anyone is attending the drive-in in this picture. :)

Phiphreak wrote:
Maybe I'm just old fashioned but shouldn't Polaris be about 42 degrees above the horizon judging the latitude in this picture I would estimate it at 5 to 10 degrees below the equator.

Joe Stieber wrote:I was curious about the specific stars and constellations in this picture, so I labeled a copy of it:



Click here for a larger version.

• 1) The far left car with its headlights on to illuminate the other cars
  2) The 'backwards' car to block "chrome glare" caused by the first car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_24 wrote:
<<The Sagittarius Star Cloud (also known as Delle Caustiche, Messier 24, IC 4715) is a star cluster in the constellation of Sagittarius, approximately 600 light years wide, which was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It is sometimes known as the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud to distinguish it from the Great Sagittarius Star Cloud located to the north of Gamma Sagittarii and Delta Sagittarii. The stars, clusters and other objects comprising M24 are part of the Sagittarius or Sagittarius-Carina arms of the Milky Way galaxy. Messier described M24 as a "large nebulosity containing many stars" and gave its dimensions as being some 1.5° across. M24 fills a space of significant volume to a depth of 10,000 to 16,000 light-years. This is the most dense concentration of individual stars visible using binoculars, with around 1,000 stars visible within a single field of view.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_7 wrote:
<<Messier 7 or M7, also designated NGC 6475 and sometimes known as the Ptolemy Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Scorpius. The cluster is easily detectable with the naked eye, close to the "stinger" of Scorpius. With a declination of -34.8°, it is the southernmost Messier object. M7 has been known since antiquity; it was first recorded by the 1st-century Greek-Roman astronomer Ptolemy, who described it as a nebula in 130 AD. Italian astronomer Giovanni Batista Hodierna observed it before 1654 and counted 30 stars in it. In 1764, French astronomer Charles Messier catalogued the cluster as the seventh member in his list of comet-like objects. English astronomer John Herschel described it as "coarsely scattered clusters of stars". Telescopic observations of the cluster reveal about 80 stars within a field of view of 1.3° across. At the cluster's estimated distance of 980 light years this corresponds to an actual diameter of 25 light years. The tidal radius of the cluster is 40.1 ly and it has a combined mass of about 735 times the mass of the Sun. The age of the cluster is around 200 million years while the brightest member star is of magnitude 5.6. In terms of composition, the cluster contains a similar abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium as the Sun.>>

Lordcat Darkstar wrote:
Its sad to see the drive-ins disappearing. But I'm glad that we can still watch movies under the stars.
A lot of communities in the US have started offering free "movies in the park"events in the summertime so not all is lost

Joe Stieber wrote:I was curious about the specific stars and constellations in this picture, so I labeled a copy of it: .

r9brown wrote:I don't understand this picture. Polaris is clearly far below the horizon, yet at Cape Cod Polaris is always 41 degrees (Hyannis) above the horizon and should be always visible.

r9brown wrote:I don't understand this picture. Polaris is clearly far below the horizon, yet at Cape Cod Polaris is always 41 degrees (Hyannis) above the horizon and should be always visible.

Love your website!

Bob
Tallahassee

Boomer12k wrote:Somebody still has a Drive-in???? Wow...takes me back...Oh, the memories...

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