UFO Capture Software gets Lightning?!?! (APOD 29 Aug 2007)

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UFO Capture Software gets Lightning?!?! (APOD 29 Aug 2007)

Post by craterchains » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:43 am

, , , What say you Giant Space Cow?
, , and you The Nereid? 8)

Norval :twisted:
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Post by Pete » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:51 pm

Giant Space Cow?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070829.html

Very cool footage. The phenomenon looks like the upside down version of what I'd imagine a cosmic ray air shower to look like.

The gigantic jet shape is also reminiscent of particle jets and showers common in high-energy physics: Annotated ATLAS cross-section; ATLAS black hole decay cross-section.

(By the way, I'm pretty sure the "UFO" in the software name was meant to be tongue-in-cheek :))
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Post by FieryIce » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:32 pm

"UFO" in the software name was meant to be tongue-in-cheek
Y'ah think?
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Post by bystander » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:35 pm

Not necessarily. The object imaged would be unidentified when the image was captured on film. The identification would come later. UFO image capture is appropriate.
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Post by FieryIce » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:06 pm

bystander, you're answering for Pete?
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Post by Pete » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:05 pm

bystander is of course right; I wasn't sure what craterchains was trying to insinuate in his post.
FieryIce wrote:
"UFO" in the software name was meant to be tongue-in-cheek
Y'ah think?
Pete wrote:I'm pretty sure... :)
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Post by craterchains » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:07 pm

If people would actually read the APODS, check the links, about the people that post, etc, etc, etc, , , , they would understand and comprehend the remarks I make. :roll:
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Post by 0adomi » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:43 am

Pete wrote:(By the way, I'm pretty sure the "UFO" in the software name was meant to be tongue-in-cheek :))
What's the UFO Capture Software?

"UFO Capture Software"="Ufo Software Webcam"?
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Post by astrolabe » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:57 am

Hello 0adomi,

Just click on the link that Pete provided above in his post dated Aug. 29.
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Post by 0adomi » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:02 am

astrolabe wrote:Hello 0adomi,

Just click on the link that Pete provided above in his post dated Aug. 29.
Thanks, guy! :P
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