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by Vulpine
Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:14 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Mysterious Green Patches on the Sky (2013 Sep 30)
Replies: 275
Views: 509745

Re: APOD: Mysterious Green Patches on the Sky (2013 Sep 30)

Night eyes wrote:It looks like an aurora.
I'm going to agree due to the color and relative motion of the light. Unlikely to be background light due to motion relative to clouds coming in at the last few seconds of the clip.

Second guess would be extremely high altitude noctilucent clouds.
by Vulpine
Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:39 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Tree... (2012 Apr 10)
Replies: 23
Views: 5581

Re: APOD: A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Tree... (2012 Apr 10)

So they simply reposted the image, rotated 90° to the left and zoomed out a bit. To me the whole nebula area looks like a lighted Christmas tree in the newer image which puts the fox almost under its branches and a unicorn ornament hanging about halfway up the right side. The cone at the top is the ...
by Vulpine
Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:08 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Tree... (2012 Apr 10)
Replies: 23
Views: 5581

Re: APOD: A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Tree... (2012 Apr 10)

The description confuses me as the image, at least to my eye, has the Christmas tree upright. The upper left portion of the overall image is very plain and featureless while the lower left near the base of the apparent tree has both the head of the fox and the unicorn. Could someone possible repost ...
by Vulpine
Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:38 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? (APOD 22 Sep 07)
Replies: 58
Views: 16937

And, this is astronomical? Not even a picture, a projection based on one guys theories. Theories I find questionable. He says the North and South Atlantic Oceans will shrink due to subduction of the oceanic crust along the East coasts of North and South America. In fact the Atlantics are spreading,...