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[quote="Jim Armstrong" post_id=326858 time=1667146868]
Aurorae can be (and have been?) seen by only 2% of human beings.
I suppose that may be why photographs of them are so popular, but I would guess that APOD pics of them are way more than 2% of the total historically..
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That’s a strange criterion for selecting APOD photos. Total solar eclipses are seen by far fewer people than partial solar eclipses. Should APOD proportion them accordingly? And lunar eclipses are seen by even more people still! They would certainly crowd out many other pictures, such as JWST interpretations, which literally nobody has seen or can see.

[quote="Jim Armstrong" post_id=326858 time=1667146868]
Seems out-of-balance, especially since I would call them terrestrial phenomena, not astronomical.
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I have seen a rebuttal to the point of view that Galileo dethroned the Earth: that one can instead say he elevated Earth to the heavens.

Halloween is the perfect bah humbug holiday.
Aurorae can be (and have been?) seen by only 2% of human beings.
I suppose that may be why photographs of them are so popular, but I would guess that APOD pics of them are way more than 2% of the total historically..
Seems out-of-balance, especially since I would call them terrestrial phenomena, not astronomical.
Bah, Humbug!

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Not bloody likely.

Twas a dark and stormy night and the ghosts were having a great time dancing in the green aurora lit sky at Hverir Iceland! Wooooo![attachment=0]Hverir_Vetter_960.jpg[/attachment]
Kudos to Stephany Vetter for an amazing photo!

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