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When the potential for informative text is considered, then I would say: 1- Star Trail from Southern Pole to Northern Pole : This is a unique view of rotating Earth, and as seen from the Equator no less. I have seen star trail pictures from near Equator even in panorama format, but not all-sky. 2- E...

I think it is because of the colour of the star, it still loks like a reflection nebula.

There is also this: http://tunctezel.gokyuzu.org/allsky/20070822h20.mov It's a Flash file. It requires that people have the Adobe Flash player to view the file; this is a pretty common player to have, though some percentage of the viewing public would likely need to upgrade to version 9 of the playe...

Is it possible to follow the same procesure as in APOD of 13th February 2009: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090213.html where an all-sky picture by Laurent Laveder was posted in APOD website and the link to VR-animation of the picture was given in the informative text? Although I think it is re...

Owlice, there is a smaller version of Mauna Kea VR, which downloads much quicker:
http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3002530

I am not sure if it is as fun as the big one, though

All lovely scenes. We now have Mr. Hedén's picture from Sweden as today's APOD (21st May). Congrats...

Absolutely! This is a psychotic alignment!

Owlice, I understand completely. And this is an Aurora "Australis", I cannot recognise the stars beyond the aurora easily. End of the world feeling comes to the mind.

As there will be an occultation of Venus by the Moon this Sunday, 16th May:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000728.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070620.html

It is a small cloud lit by the light of rising Moon, waning gibbous in phase. It is interesting, only that small cloud gets moonlight and no others. The lighthouse is on a headland rising about 230 meters over Mediterranean Sea. To the east, south and west is the sea; to the north is lower hills of ...

My first reaction was the picture(s) must have been taken through a twin (or multi) layer window glass. Those glasses cause this king of multiple images of bright objects. But if there were no glasses in the photographers' line of sight, I cannot guess.

TTezel

It was the light of some sodium-vapor projectors installed to a gendarmerie station at the northern entrance to the site. The brightening of sky near Jupiter was caused by similar lights installed to the eastern entrance. In fact, there are decorative lights in some parts of the city including the p...

* The bright light on the horizon is a forest fire observation tower. There used to be an unwelcome mercury lamp there. But it somehow went off and never fixed again, much to our delight.

* There are no power lines there, take my word.

Good day,

Tunç Tezel

I have just looked the flares up, with the exact location of our observing site found by google maps ans satelite images, and the predicted Iridium flares were within a degree of the streaks in the pictures. Mystery is most probably solved. One should be alert for Iridium series like this even if it...

Hello, I am the photographer of today's APOD. First of all, I am sorry not to be able to write sooner. And below is what I can say about the image. We were observing at Beynam, Ankara, Turkey (the location data can be found at http://www.heavens-above.com). The streaks in the picture you see comes f...