Starship Asterisk*

Congratulations to your Photoshopper.

I looked up the originals on Google Images. I recommend
http://www.wga.hu/art/v/vermeer/03d/28astro.jpg
827x930 pixels
http://www.wga.hu/art/v/vermeer/03d/29geogr.jpg
988x1123 pixels

Both figures are clearly the same person. "...it has been suggested that the scientist portrayed here is none other than Anthony van Leeuwenhoek."
http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/cat_abo ... rapher.htm
I don't see much resemblance, myself.

I mostly recognize the APOD images stuck in the picture.

globes
cosmic background radiation replacing sky globe
Jupiter replacing Earth globe

cabinet
Eskimo Nebula

On the right
Hubble Space Telescope in orbit
Saturn's rings twice, in visible and infrared light?
Surface of Mars?
Sun in emission from 11 times ionized Iron

but I can't match them all with their dates or the point of scientific interest described at the time.

I just knew the art history classes would come in handy. I got a huge kick out of the double Vermeer and especially the Jupiter globe, the first anachronism I noticed.

I'd like to know what the histogram-like feature is on the wall next to the HST portrait. Any guesses?

and I do believe that the globe is of Saturn, not Jupiter.

Here is another part of very same discussion. Folks, try to keep it in one thread, 'kay?

Whoops! 0 for 2 - it is indeed Saturn, and I will concede the other to be cosmic background radiation also...

cherlin wrote:Congratulations to your Photoshopper.

Thanks... Actually you should have said a Gimpper

As for the funny game of recognizing the pictures you're almost there... Somebody already corrected for Saturn instead of Jupiter and for the CMBR patterns, but there is another mistake :

Saturn's rings twice, in visible and infrared light?

One of the picture is not saturn's rings...

OK, nobody want to play...

Here is one of the answers anyway !

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050511.html

Good day everybody !

I think everyone was confusing the image of the sombrero galaxy as the rings of Saturn due to the orientation. A great hide if you ask me

Could someone please enlight me?

In [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050616.html]that APOD[/url] explanation RJN wrote:industrious Robert Nemiroff (left) and persistent Jerry Bonnell (right)

But I don't see any difference from original images posted by cherlin.

It's only a joke... Maybe for the 20th birthday of APOD the faces will be photoshopped/gimpped (or whatever is fashionable then) as well.

I go on with the "revelations" about this picture : maybe the reason why Saturn was confused for Jupiterr is that we don't see the rings. Here is the source :

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050504.html

Something I found funny is that if you look close enough at the structure that support the globe in the Vermeer picture, there is a horizontal wooden circular part that looks very much like a ring!! That's why I decided to put Saturn in there.

Who is RJN anyway i don't get it...

I guess that would be Robert J. Nemiroff, one of the two persons that take care of APOD...

If I'd seen this thread earlier I'm sure I'd have picked the non-rings picture! After all it's been my background image since it appeared on APOD...

Boldra

BOLDRA,
I agree with you. I find it to be a breath taking image too. I especially like the conjoined galaxy pair in the lower left corner
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