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Can someone please post the reversed images? Perhaps to Imgur, or other free easy image upload service? Here are the images swapped left and right for viewing using the parallel technique (focus eyes far away). Great- Thanks. The reversed images work much better for some reason. I use the "fre...

Turn the image upside down and all the ridges become crevasses and the mounds, depressions. I wonder which is the true view. Agreed; I'm guessing those are crevasses and depressions. Very narrow ridges like those would seem much less stable than narrow crevasses. It would be really surprising to me...

ScopesView03.jpg Though APOD has featured many spectacular views over the years of Comet Hale-Bopp, here’s one from a little different viewpoint- the mirror’s eye view. For this picture in 1997, the 35mm film camera with a 50mm lens was mounted above the mirror of my 18” Dobsonian-mounted telescope...