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by jch
Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:38 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: APOD editing
Replies: 1
Views: 13014

APOD editing

Last Wednesday 10/12 I had a great opportunity to participate in a zoom meeting with fellow APOD translators. We were also joined by Robert Nemiroff and we learned that APOD should switch in future to Wordpress. I have to say I don't know what the goal of the IT people in NASA is. I am just a little...
by jch
Tue Aug 15, 2017 12:01 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2017 August
Replies: 168
Views: 126691

Perseid above hill

http://www.astro.cz/galerie_ctenarska/male/098869.jpg http://www.astro.cz/fotogalerie/ctenarske-fotogalerie/nejnovejsi-fotografie-ctenaru.html?id=5114 http://www.astro.cz/galerie_ctenarska/velke/098869.jpg Perseid above hill Růžovský vrch in the National park Bohemian Switzerland in Czechia. Author...
by jch
Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:33 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Total Solar Eclipse of Saros 145 (2017 Aug 11)
Replies: 16
Views: 5158

Re: APOD: A Total Solar Eclipse of Saros 145 (2017 Aug 11)

I've enjoyed this APOD https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170811.html "A Total Solar Eclipse of Saros 145"

What about APOD "Saros 145" or "77 solar eclipses in 1370.29 years of the Saros 145"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf3qweYBSEk

It would give a time perspective
by jch
Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:19 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)
Replies: 1200
Views: 193625

Re: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)

Celestial Manta or Heavenly Manta is suggestion of my friend Marie Vavrouchová
by jch
Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:42 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Night of the Long Leonid (2012 Nov 22)
Replies: 22
Views: 5203

Re: APOD: Night of the Long Leonid (2012 Nov 22)

SteedJoy@gmail.com wrote:Great! But the shooting star seems not come out from Leo ...
I would agree, radiant of this meteor is maybe somewhere in Hydra.
Josef