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orin stepanek wrote:One thing I noticed that I wasn't aware of; and I never paid attention to before; was the city of Perth, Australia. It is a most modern looking city. 8-)

Q4: Have some APOD pictures been run more than once?
A4: Yes. Many of our readers have been with us less than a year and are unaware of some really spectacular or important astronomy pictures. New information about old pictures is becoming available over the WWW. The text and links for rerun pictures will make use of this newly available information. So although the picture might be old, some of the text and links of each APOD will be new. Also, more web surfers have larger bandwidth connections, which allows us to post higher-resolution image files that can be transferred conveniently. Software to handle more sophisticated image file formats has also become more common, so the picture's size and/or format might be new. Lastly, rerunning APODs saves us time and helps us update our archive. In general, our rerun policy currently is to only rerun APODs more than one year old to keep the pictures relatively "new" to new APOD viewers. We will almost never rerun more than two pictures in any given week. So when you load the current APOD,it is still, most probably, a new picture.

Many of our readers have been with us less than a year

orin stepanek wrote:One thing I noticed that I wasn't aware of; and I never paid attention to before; was the city of Perth, Australia. It is a most modern looking city.

Funky wrote:

orin stepanek wrote:One thing I noticed that I wasn't aware of; and I never paid attention to before; was the city of Perth, Australia. It is a most modern looking city.

I think we're doing pretty well considering the closest place one could consider a city is ~3000km away...

If you paid attention the first time you could've visited on the cheap . These days I think Australia is a bit expensive for Americans .