Starship Asterisk*

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[quote=starsurfer post_id=288451 time=1546189754 user_id=137896]

I think hippies would approve of this picture. :D

For anyone around at the time. what was the hippie revolution of the 1960's like?[/quote]

I forget.

Rob[/quote]

[quote=starsurfer post_id=288451 time=1546189754 user_id=137896]
I think hippies would approve of this picture. :D

For anyone around at the time. what was the hippie revolution of the 1960's like?
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I forget.

Rob

[quote="Chris Peterson" post_id=288445 time=1546179493 user_id=117706]
[quote=RET post_id=288438 time=1546151556]
Was there really Pallas? I confirmed it had been there around May 2015.
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Yes, this is a Sunday repeat. The original APOD was from 25 May 2015. The caption could use a little tweaking.
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Yes, sometimes APOD repeats "best of" APODs, and this was one. The caption has now been tweaked. Thanks!
- RJN

Aha, I see. thanks Chris :D
(I don't know why but I couldn't make reply, so I made a new post)

I think hippies would approve of this picture. :D

For anyone around at the time. what was the hippie revolution of the 1960's like?

Nice tree!! But you can't see the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor#/media/File:2MASS_LSS_chart-NEW_Nasa.jpg] forest[/url] :wink:

[quote=RET post_id=288438 time=1546151556]
Was there really Pallas? I confirmed it had been there around May 2015.
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Yes, this is a Sunday repeat. The original APOD was from 25 May 2015. The caption could use a little tweaking.

Of course, the Galaxy does not look like that to the naked eye --- wish it did (but that would take some doing!). But the naked eye does really show us the Galaxy clearly; albeit in black-and-white. I vividly remember my first trip to South America and seeing the Magellanic Clouds for the first time: very impressive indeed: they look like chunks of the Milky Way that have separated off and gone on their merry way. Of course we now know that the opposite is the case; they are on their way to eventual merger with the Milky Way.

At least the trees are not lonely with all those stars over head...

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Was there really Pallas? I confirmed it had been there around May 2015.

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