by neufer » Sun Feb 21, 2016 4:09 pm
rstevenson wrote:Nitpicker wrote:rstevenson wrote:
I'm wondering about the other two bright areas on the horizon. If this is the setting Moon, I can't see much of anything (in Google Maps) west of the Pinnacles except for Hangover Bay. Maybe there's some off-shore rigs that are well lit all night? Or is it a rising Moon, and there's something bright to the east?
I think that is the town of Cervantes, about 12 km to the NNW. The galaxy spans the horizon from left to right in the APOD, roughly from the SW to the NNE. The young, setting Moon is roughly to the West.
Thanks nit. I wasn't thinking of the wide span of the Milky Way, and therefore was tilting at the wrong windmill. Cervantes it is, I'm sure.
Not to mention nearby Lake Thetis with its 3.5 billion year old inhabitants
(
way older than anything in
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150223.html )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Thetis wrote:
<<Lake Thetis is a saline coastal lake in the mid-western region of Western Australia. The lake is situated east of the small town Cervantes, 2 kilometres inland from the Indian Ocean. The lake is one of only a few places in the world with living marine stromatolites. The Lake Thetis stromatolites exhibit unusual columnar branching. These narrow, closely spaced and almost parallel columns are extremely rare in modern stromatolites.
Stromatolites (from Greek στρώμα, strōma, mattress, bed, stratum, and λίθος, lithos, rock) are layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms (microbial mats) of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria. Fossilized stromatolites provide ancient records of life on Earth by these remains, which might date from more than 3.5 billion years. Lichen stromatolites are a proposed mechanism of formation of some kinds of layered rock structure that is formed above water, where rock meets air, by repeated colonization of the rock by endolithic lichens>>
[quote="rstevenson"][quote="Nitpicker"][quote="rstevenson"]
I'm wondering about the other two bright areas on the horizon. If this is the setting Moon, I can't see much of anything (in Google Maps) west of the Pinnacles except for Hangover Bay. Maybe there's some off-shore rigs that are well lit all night? Or is it a rising Moon, and there's something bright to the east?[/quote]
I think that is the town of Cervantes, about 12 km to the NNW. The galaxy spans the horizon from left to right in the APOD, roughly from the SW to the NNE. The young, setting Moon is roughly to the West.[/quote]
Thanks nit. I wasn't thinking of the wide span of the Milky Way, and therefore was tilting at the wrong windmill. Cervantes it is, I'm sure.[/quote]
Not to mention nearby Lake Thetis with its 3.5 billion year old inhabitants
([size=150]way[/size] older than anything in http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150223.html )
[quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Thetis"]
<<Lake Thetis is a saline coastal lake in the mid-western region of Western Australia. The lake is situated east of the small town Cervantes, 2 kilometres inland from the Indian Ocean. The lake is one of only a few places in the world with living marine stromatolites. The Lake Thetis stromatolites exhibit unusual columnar branching. These narrow, closely spaced and almost parallel columns are extremely rare in modern stromatolites.
Stromatolites (from Greek στρώμα, strōma, mattress, bed, stratum, and λίθος, lithos, rock) are layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms (microbial mats) of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria. Fossilized stromatolites provide ancient records of life on Earth by these remains, which might date from more than 3.5 billion years. Lichen stromatolites are a proposed mechanism of formation of some kinds of layered rock structure that is formed above water, where rock meets air, by repeated colonization of the rock by endolithic lichens>>[/quote]