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- Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Existence of multiverses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20809
Re: Existence of multiverses?
counting on what? I'm locking the thread because 1. this thread (nor any thread) is the place for the current argument and 2. it's ...actually pretty disrespectful all around to blithely turn it into that.
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Existence of multiverses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20809
Re: Existence of multiverses?
y'all think I don't still read the forum don't you
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:35 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Betelgeuse Imagined (2020 Jan 01)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18621
Re: APOD: Betelgeuse Imagined (2020 Jan 01)
Any ideas how accurate the artist's impression might be? That thing's too non-round IMHO to be a star, unless one just on the verge of popping its cork. I know the Wiki page mentions the possibility of massive convection cells on the outer photosphere, but this seems a bit much. Also intriguing abo...
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:49 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: NASA Open API for APOD
- Replies: 47
- Views: 307881
Re: NASA Open API for APOD
Using templating or a CMS system doesn't necessarily mean you can't still do that, though. A widely distributed CMS requires constant updating, though, and that's what would get you in the end. That, or you'd get hacked eventually if you failed to update. I'm just at a loss as to why even the most s...
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:37 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: NASA Open API for APOD
- Replies: 47
- Views: 307881
Re: NASA Open API for APOD
@geckzilla @PawelPleskaczynski Did you take a look at my previous post ? it covers all the points regarding the use of semantic elements, ids, and classes where applicable. I also created a revised home page which you can see here https://gist.github.com/videotizer/049383bd94eaa46d860557e257678724....
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:31 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: NASA Open API for APOD
- Replies: 47
- Views: 307881
Re: NASA Open API for APOD
just my two cents, but it's more important to actually have some classes and ids defined within the html than it is to have the css file itself. Thank you. But why? Is it so that codes that ingest the HTML will better be able to figure out details of what information they are ingesting, like copyri...
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov (2019 Dec 14)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 37803
Re: APOD: Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov (2019 Dec 14)
The comet is pretty faint. I've got a raw (with cosmic rays removed) image of the original comet next to the galaxy. You can see the galaxy overall is brighter than it. To get the comet to a comparable brightness with the galaxy, they had to take a stack of three longer exposures without the galaxy,...
- Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:17 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: NASA Open API for APOD
- Replies: 47
- Views: 307881
Re: NASA Open API for APOD
just my two cents, but it's more important to actually have some classes and ids defined within the html than it is to have the css file itself.
- Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Starlink Satellite Trails over Brazil (2019 Dec 10)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4872
Re: APOD: Starlink Satellite Trails over Brazil (2019 Dec 10)
The astronomy community was largely caught by surprise when the first set of satellites was launched. Shows how little overlap there really is between SpaceX and astronomers.
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:47 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: James Webb
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4142
Re: James Webb
JWST's resolution will actually be only a bit better than HST's, despite the larger mirror. Longer wavelengths, lower resolution... I was going to give you this link, but it doesn't seem to be working (which is irritatingly common lately) http://stsci.edu/jwst/observing-programs/approved-gto-program...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 5:12 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M27: The Dumbbell Nebula (2019 Dec 03)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4137
Re: APOD: M27: The Dumbbell Nebula (2019 Dec 03)
The ones you linked to are almost all supernova remnants, with the exception of the top middle one which is a hot superbubble where stars were forming. I don't have any personal experience with the Dumbbell. It looks like a good rendition of it, though I suspect that a lot of sharpening/deconvolutio...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: NASA Open API for APOD
- Replies: 47
- Views: 307881
Re: NASA Open API for APOD
- not break most programs that ingest APOD's current HTML3 No one knows how most "programs" ingest APOD's current HTML. Each individual knows how they did their own, but there are multiple ways to parse it, and it's impossible to know how each did it without asking them individually, or a...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21342
Re: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
It happens often enough that I see a weird, seemingly unique galaxy, and then find an oddly similarly unique galaxy just behind it in Hubble imagery that I am nearly willing to accept that light has looped around, and at least in some places the galaxies remained parallel to the light path.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21342
Re: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
Maybe there's another ring inside the background ring. Maybe it's rings all the way down.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21342
Re: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
What do you mean "to settle an argument on the Internet" isn't necessary? Hmph.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21342
Re: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
Go on and get some Keck time and look at it with their fancy adaptive optics to get a morphology study on it, and throw some spectroscopy in while you're there.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:28 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21342
Re: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
Another thing about the little ring galaxy behind Hoag's is that it has just enough details for you to know there is some sort of ring there, and your brain is automatically like wow, another one just the same, almost facing us, incredible! But if you could see it in even further detail, closer up, ...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21342
Re: APOD: Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring... (2019 Nov 27)
the funny thing is that if you didn't look at it with high resolution and notice the ring shape, none of you would have any doubt about whether or not they're related: http://legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=229.3099&dec=21.5856&layer=dr8&zoom=15 so obviously an unrelated background galaxy you...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Arp 273: Battling Galaxies from Hubble (2019 Nov 20)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8995
Re: APOD: Arp 273: Battling Galaxies from Hubble (2019 Nov 20)
Something that I noticed when I had a chance to look at this APOD image on a larger display cinched the case that this is an artifact. If you also look at the very bright foreground star on the left edge of the galaxy you can see another (although dimmer) double ring effect. And if you draw lines t...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:04 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: APOD Archive page seems broken
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5751
Re: APOD Archive page seems broken
I will say though, after your input, I can't help but be really really really tempted to scrape the entire site. I strongly advise against it. I made a fully php/mysql version years ago, but they didn't like it because they didn't want to learn php, didn't want to have to deal with updating, and we...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:12 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: APOD Archive page seems broken
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5751
Re: APOD Archive page seems broken
This has been previously noted and discussed here: https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=12939&start=275 Also, the editors are aware, and I believe reworking it is either planned or in progress. Uh, I wouldn't guess at when that might be done, though. Ok, good to hear they're aware...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:18 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: APOD Archive page seems broken
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5751
Re: APOD Archive page seems broken
This has been previously noted and discussed here:
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=12939&start=275
Also, the editors are aware, and I believe reworking it is either planned or in progress. Uh, I wouldn't guess at when that might be done, though.
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=12939&start=275
Also, the editors are aware, and I believe reworking it is either planned or in progress. Uh, I wouldn't guess at when that might be done, though.
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:19 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Animalia
- Replies: 141
- Views: 181928
Re: Animalia
Seems like a cozy den would be preferable to snuffling around in the snow.
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:07 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Found Images: 2019 October
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49501
Re: Found Images: 2019 October
IC 4710 https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1809a/ Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt potw1809a.jpg The larger versions of the picture of this galaxy are strikingly beautiful, with individual stars being resolved everywhere. Geck, did you help process it? I have to...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:59 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: APODs not in Starship
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6304
Re: APODs not in Starship
The editors have some assistants (or assistant, not sure if there is more than one at a time) who help post images to Asterisk, and that's how they end up over here even if they're only submitted via email. ...however, there are some folks who do not want to be seen submitting APODs, and those are t...