Starship Asterisk*

Gorgeous image!
The Grand Canyon is an awesome place; and the star trails are pretty impressive too!

(And in the enlarged image, across on the North Rim, there are lights - maybe from the Grand Canyon Lodge located there..?)

Very intriguing image! One question: why does the link in this sentence (from the description; emphasis added): If Saturn's South Pole wasn't strange enough with its rotating vortex , take the user to an APOD that features Saturn's North Pole? Or is the link just an extremely close up view of the he...

This image ROCKS!

:LIKE:

Clicking DISCUSS took me to the wrong APOD. The Comet APOD from two days ago. This happened to me too. Can the link be fixed? And Beyond, there may have been two of them originally posted, but I can't even get one to play. Does the video link need to be fixed also? I'd like very much to view the vi...

Ethereal comes to mind....


IOW: very nice!

I looked too, and WOW!!!! What an absolutely AWESOME shower!
(Best meteor shower I've seen!)




*Ann, so sorry about your weather!

Can someone please explain the difference between the '46* halo' and the 'infralateral arc'? In that image, they look like they are part of the same halo/arc.... :? The two are formed by different mechanisms. By all accounts, they can be difficult to distinguish from each other, and are easily conf...

From this link:
quadruple halo

Can someone please explain the difference between the '46* halo' and the 'infralateral arc'?
In that image, they look like they are part of the same halo/arc....

TIA!

I counted 30 also.

Interesting image.

This is one of the most impressive videos I've ever seen!
AWESOME!

Nice image. 'Crescent shape' seems to be a bit of a stretch, though. I don't see it. :| But it is a beautiful image. ETA: I searched on 'Abell 21, Medusa Nebula', and came up with a few images that somewhat resembled a crescent - if I squinted my eyes, tilted my head and stood back from the monitor ...

My top two favorite things: Yellowstone NP, and the night sky. How awesome is that?

Pretty awesome!

I chose work because I feel like I'm there more, which is probably true. But I do view APOD from home on the days I'm not working.


But wherever I am, I have to have my APOD fix!

Wonderful APOD! The high resolution version of this image is positively blinding!

I'll take a stab at it:
I've circled the three stars in question - Shedar, Kochab and Altair - now here's hoping they are correct. I'm sure other forumites will be along to fix my bads, if needed!
Anyway, hope that helps!


p.s. Pretty APOD!

This is indeed a fantastic APOD! To be honest, solar images don't really do that much for me. However, after watching this link - especially around the 40 second timeframe (I can't get over how HUGE that CME really is! :shock: ) - I can say I have a new appreciation for close-ups of the sun! Very ni...

needmorehubble wrote:I may be picky but I think for only doing one picture a day, there are too many pictures of the night sky milky way on here

Did you forget the 'sarcasm' smilie?

>snip<

owlice wrote:When the APOD for which this poll is intended does appear and has a link to this poll, the image that is shown will be the one to which the question in this poll refers.

And that day is today!

Maybe eight or nine years ago, I followed a link to APOD from a forum that is (sadly) now defunct.
(APOD images have helped minimize the 'loss' of that site!)


I know it's been said before, but: keep up the great work!

Beautiful image!
(We were clouded out here - )


And Boomer, there are all sorts of ointments and salves to help with your condition.... You know, being "SCARRED".

Wish the photo did not have that totally unnecessary white box around it.... The box isn't "totally unnecessary". Some folks may not realize that the bright white-ish shapes are what's being described. I could even see how they may mistakenly be thought of as reflective 'somethings' on th...

Bert (NL) wrote:Sunday is 5 Aug, Monday is 6 Aug...

Enginerrrrrrrrr wrote:Bert is right, the 5th is Sunday and the 6th is Monday. Either way I am ready to hear the exciting news on the landing! I am sure it will go off without a hitch

It should be Sunday/Monday, according to this link.

Very cool!

Chris Peterson wrote:You mean like the great solar flare image that turned out to just be my monitor on fire?

paulobao wrote:But, since this is the APOD...what about the astronomy element?

*DEADHORSE*
*DEADHORSE*
*DEADHORSE*
*DEADHORSE*