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by **todiwan** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:58 am

Heh, I discovered it on Twitter, actually. I have always been interested in space and astronomy, but for whatever reason, until a little over a year ago, I did not even consider it as a career path. Then I suddenly got that revelation and I started following astronomy and physics as much as possible. I started using Twitter and from there, it was an easy way to APOD, since APOD gets linked there a lot, by NASA or by independent tweeters. Keep up the amazing work, and I should probably start getting involved in the forum itself, it seems interesting.

by **JBogle** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:55 pm

I found it on Google while searching for general astronomy pictures, although at the time, I had heard about it years prior...not sure from where.

by **Steve Walkey** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:22 am

I probably came across APOD whilst viewing NASA sites, or via The Sky At Night... Sir Patrick Moore first sparked my interest in Astronomy, as I know is the case for many thousands of fellow Brits, but APOD has helped to sustain the blaze! So, thank you very much for your fabulous site, I'm off to look at some more pics quickly before work...

by **SemperFi** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:47 pm

Wow! I don't know how I found Apod, but I'm sure glad I did. It's been years that I've been following you every day! and if I miss a day (vacation, etc) APOD is the first site I catch up on when I return home. I've told lots of people about you, too, and I'm sure that they'd be lost without you as well. Keep up the wonderful, extraordinary, marvelours work. You are MAGNIFICENT!!!!

by **sq_deep** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:07 pm

It was years ago so I can't remember.

by **Dr. Wackadoodle** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:01 pm

I have been using Refdesk for my homepage ever since I got my first PC in 1998. APOD is a prominent link (and my very favorite) out of hundreds of links on this extremely useful site.

by **Bill B** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:57 pm

I frankly don't remember how I heard about APOD. In the Fall of 1995 I received a grant to put computers in my physics classroom. After finding APOD I began to go there to begin each class. There was always something physics related. Glad you guys came on the scene!

by **jbendler1@wi.rr.com** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:29 pm

W8LQ wrote:My son got me hooked on APOD when I was still using WIN95 on dial-up. Been checking every night since!
Thanks for a great web site.

Me too -- he was a physics & astronomy major.

by **Stavros Vyk** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:00 pm

KenB wrote:Found you light years ago------great pictures!

hahaha! Light years as a measurement of time! awesome!

by **Pif** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:58 pm

It was a very very long time ago (last century as one previous poster noted). I keep forgetting about it then reading an article about Mars or Hubble and looking it up again for a browse through the most recent AMAZING pictures.

by **Stavros Vyk** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:56 pm

I discovered APOD in 1995 and have visited every single day since. I don't remember how I first came across APOD. Everything about this site is just as it should be. OMIGODJUSTINBIEBER!!! Sorry. Anyway... I regard APOD is a coherent oasis of gentle sanity in the face of the howling and infinite Void. Thank you very much for its continued existence.

by **char6316** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:59 pm

Unemployed for the first time in my life, spent many hours at the library looking for work and searching the internet for cloud formations and other sky related things. Didn't find a job, but got one heck of an education about the universe we live in.

by **NPS guy** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:32 pm

I first saw a photo of Death Valley NP that was also posted to APOD. I followed the trail and I am very happy I did great site

by **billMe** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:55 pm

In May 1995 i was searching for astronomy pictures on one of the Lycos search engines. Google wasn't there yet. It was Lycos or AltaVista that were my main engines, well them and gophers.

by **CDREUT** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:40 pm

In a Scientific American article, I believe, in the late 1990s. Been a long time and APOD's been my home page ever since!

EDIT: I forgot to note that for years I've kept a file (currently at 1.24 GB) of my favorite APODs categorized in folders: "Spectacular Images" (Terrestrial and Celestial), "3-D Images," "Xtra huge and s-l-o-w," and "APOD Outtakes." I use APOD Spectacular Images for my screen saver, which has garnered many compliments over the years.

by **NightStar** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:53 pm

I've been visiting for years, can't quite remember... as someone else posted, I think it was an Altavista search!

by **owlice** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:54 am

smokinxp wrote:I have visitied every APOD page since the dawn of time, love it and all the pretty pictures, would be nice to have an option to add a comment to pictures specially those that pose a question.

If you click on the "Discuss" link at the bottom of every APOD, you can.

smokinxp wrote:I luckily took a site snapshot of the APOD complete so have all the pictures and webpages back to the first one and it all links to stuff on my computer, very handy for such situations.

All APODs are archived and available for viewing by clicking the "Archive" link at the bottom of the APOD page.

by **KenB** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:53 am

Found you light years ago------great pictures!

by **TATWORTH** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:24 am

I saw the picture like the one at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0411/ng ... st_big.jpg - was impressed and continued to look. (It may well have been some years prior to 2004)

by **smokinxp** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:38 am

InvisibleMan wrote:Justin Beber? As Bill the Cat says: Ack! Ack! Hairball!

I stumbled on APOD a long time ago but how I got there is lost in the sands of time. It's been a wonderful journey ever since. I regret that some of the early links are now broken in the archive.

Thank you Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. A wonderful way to spend 15 minutes a day/30 minutes/60 minutes/it's 3am? What?

I luckily took a site snapshot of the APOD complete so have all the pictures and webpages back to the first one and it all links to stuff on my computer, very handy for such situations.

by **smokinxp** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:35 am

I have visitied every APOD page since the dawn of time, love it and all the pretty pictures, would be nice to have an option to add a comment to pictures specially those that pose a question.
I use to do amatuer astronomy in my backyard with a decent teleskope and would download star maps showing exacpt positions of stars on a given night and there was a link to APOD from that site.
Love it, and remember, as Bill and Ted's once said be excellent to one another and..... Party on Dudes!!!!

by **PBradac** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:57 am

Just by accident

by **scottm52** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:21 am

Mayanmajix Web page posted a link to a cool picture on a NASA site called APOD.

by **InvisibleMan** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:03 am

Justin Beber? As Bill the Cat says: Ack! Ack! Hairball!

I stumbled on APOD a long time ago but how I got there is lost in the sands of time. It's been a wonderful journey ever since. I regret that some of the early links are now broken in the archive.

Thank you Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. A wonderful way to spend 15 minutes a day/30 minutes/60 minutes/it's 3am? What?

by **lazy-k** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:25 am

I learned about APOD through a note in the monthly magazine of the German Aerospace Establishment DLR in the year 2010.

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