Starship Asterisk*

Way cool, looking forward to discoveries.

My only gripe about the photo is it showed too much foreground and not enough sky, I hope newer ones take and stitch in sky shots, the rule of 1/3's applies for these as well.

"Astronomy + Fireflies" Taken June-20-2012, Bonus: I also captured an iridium satellite flare, which is 1/2 way up from the horizon and 1/3 in from LH. Raw output with all planes https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MszjslNbFmE/T-MJCQQQU_I/AAAAAAAAOxk/V2DgptzQHco/s1024/stackedImage.jpg 28 f...

"Astronomy + Fireflies" Taken June-20-2012, With the heat wave the fireflies are going bonkers here! Last night, about 3 hrs worth of exposure, 11pm - 2am. Many 25 sec exposures, 15-85 zoom lens at 15mm on crop T1i @ ISO800. Stacked using StarStaX, minor PP in Aperture 3 to remove hot pixe...

I'd really like more details on this shot.

Camera, lens, settings, and if cropped or not.

Almost exactly same shot as 4 years ago........................

Congratulations Larry Van Vleet on your image "NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula", simply stunning. This was one of the 3 images I picked. The best of the years best are here, and congratulations to "A Tale of Two Hemispheres" and "Mangaia's Milky Way", both visually stunning...

Is there a guide that says "no comments on APOY 2011 till poll closed?"

I see lots of votes but zero comments, so curious, and don't want to rankle anyone if I post comments/thoughts.

thx,

Status update. Regarding the image I submitted that became APOD for August 5, 2011. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110805.html and my picasa web watermark version https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S3_t7k7_W7k/TigJL2lzLkI/AAAAAAAANMA/7vaZArj6o1Y/s1074/Jul-20-2011%252520startrail2.jpg I've done some sli...

Of all the Aurora images I've seen, this is in the top 3, if not the single best, so it won my vote.

A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble won my 2nd vote, simply this is science verification shown for everyone to grasp, how cool!

Thx for votes to make 2nd place. I thought interest in my NASA APOD image died, a few days ago I got email from The Wall Street Journal saying they wanted to use it with a book review "How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night" by Thomas Hockey. After emails back/forth, and pho...

I thought interest in my NASA APOD image died, a few days ago I got email from The Wall Street Journal saying they wanted to use it with a book review "How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night" by Thomas Hockey. After emails back/forth, and phone discussion, it ran in this Sat...

Neat to watch, the robot voice reminded me of "Talking Moose" from the late 1980's Macintosh stuff, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Moose

I was an active member of AnnArbor MacTechnics from 1986 - 1995, did anyone here ever join those mtgs? For a few years I ran the SIG's, Basics and Beginners. Also I was a semi-active member of MacGroup Detroit (Terry White). Ha, I spent $6k on the MacPortable when it came out in 1989 because I hated...

My homage to Steve Jobs. I took this self-portrait in Fall 1984 with my 1st computer, Apple Mac 128k, the original!
RIP Steve, I've NEVER owned a WinTel computer.

Ann wrote:

Beyond wrote:mtbdudex, in your picture -ring around the moon- what is that little green orb at about 4-o'clock??

I was wondering that too, although to me it looks blue-green.

Ann

I think its internal lens reflections,not 100% sure, I left it in there instead of Post Processing it out.

So; I saw this QR code, took my iPhone4 out, and scanned it hoping to see some Easter Egg, another great/educational NASA APOD, then I came to the APOD page with explain of QE, felt confused. Read the comments posted here, I’d like to offer my take on this. Can we take QR’s to the next level? In ot...

So; I saw this QR code, took my iPhone4 out, and scanned it hoping to see some Easter Egg, another great/educational NASA APOD, then I came to the APOD page with explain of QE, felt confused. Read the comments posted here, I’d like to offer my take on this. Can we take QR’s to the next level? In oth...

Hey mtbdudex - it looks like you got your 15 minutes of fame extended to 20! :lol: Now, when does the next 'innovative image' come out? :ssmile: There are a few more widefield type image concepts I am playing with right now with that involve combination of long exposure on EQ mount + stationary/sta...

Beautiful and inspiring, great job Mr. Fredrick Broms.

Hey gang, yesterday I was phone interviewed by local newspaper writer for "Livingston Press and Argus", and today (Wed 9/28) both in hard copy (paper) and online he wrote an article. http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20110928/NEWS01/109280304/NASA-selects-resident-s-image-picture-day?...

Fallstreak Hole (Punch Hole Cloud) Copyright: Adam Allerhand [attachment=1]dsc01337.jpg[/attachment] A few weeks back here I saw a unique picture of a cloud formation with a circle hole in it, the above post has it, until then I've never heard about a "Punch hole cloud", it stuck in my me...

This is beautiful, stunning. Are there video clips of Aurora that show in real time how the eye would see the colors in a dark location? I realize long camera exposure pick the colors up much more. For people like me who live in Michigan, I'd love to see Aurora, I've viewed then just twice in my lif...

This is a great look back thread, and to see Pleiades/M45 in so many viewpoints is both visually stunning and educational. Wednesday nights at out home is NO TV, we do family games, etc. For tonight, I will show my 3 kids (ages 9/7/5) this thread! (We have an AppleTV in the family room, so should be...

For me, looking at the submissions, immediately NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble struck a chord within me, it got my vote.
Great capture and processing.

I voted for the Aurora Over Greenland (2011 August 23),for its beauty and capturing so many objects in the sky.

We have 3 or 4 of red/blue glasses leftover from a Hannah-Montana 3D DVD....will show the kids this image and report their feedback.