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Watching the first lecture - and whenever you bring up an APOD, I bring it up on my other monitor. At 40:45 you're looking at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060819.html and you circle what you refer to as a "meteor" - though the APOD description details it as an Iridium flair. Emjoying the le...

Being such a big Fan of the APOD I decided to sort-of use the same format for my first few steps into astro photography. http://m.sheppard.net/comet http://m.sheppard.net/orion I plan on mounting the camea on my tracking scope for some longer exposures - but just being able to take a picture of some...

You can see rings. I thought it was a lense flare effect at first, but I'm pretty sure that's saturn. Click on the image for the slightly larger version. The Size of Saturn is a function of the zoom on the imaginary camera taking this image. You could make it appear to be any size. The exposure on t...

I can't find a description of what the yellow squares on the images mean. Is it some sort of "are of interest" based on deltas in the images or something? That must be really hard to calibrate if it is!

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