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APOD of June 16, 2005, Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:39 pm
by cherlin
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:56 pm
by carylsue
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.
another item
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:59 pm
by bswift
I'd like to know what the histogram-like feature is on the wall next to the HST portrait. Any guesses?
wrong planet
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:02 am
by bswift
and I do believe that the globe is of Saturn, not Jupiter.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:52 am
by makc
Here is another part of very same discussion. Folks, try to keep it in one thread, 'kay?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:05 pm
by pinot
Whoops! 0 for 2 - it is indeed Saturn, and I will concede the other to be cosmic background radiation also...
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:32 pm
by deep-turtle
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...
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:25 am
by deep-turtle
OK, nobody want to play...
Here is one of the answers anyway !
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050511.html
Good day everybody !
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:01 pm
by BMAONE23
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
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:44 am
by makc
Could someone please enlight me?
But I don't see any difference from original images posted by cherlin.
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:49 am
by deep-turtle
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.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:38 am
by Kid
Who is RJN anyway
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i don't get it...
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:30 am
by deep-turtle
I guess that would be Robert J. Nemiroff, one of the two persons that take care of APOD...
sombrero
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:54 pm
by Boldra
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
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:01 pm
by BMAONE23
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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