APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Comments and questions about the APOD on the main view screen.
SusanR

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by SusanR » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:31 pm

Happy Birthday to you.

I know very little about astronomy (but thanks to you I'm learning a little bit). Your site is my home page, and mostly supplies me with my daily dose of awe. Keep it up! Thanks.

cwsapphire

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by cwsapphire » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:34 pm

APOD is and has been my home page for years. Every time I log on to the internet up pops APOD. I send the link to many friends frequently, when I see a photo someone might like.
Thanks for bringing the beauty of the cosmos down to earth for so many years!
Cheers, and here's to the future of APOD.

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by ta152h0 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:41 pm

I remember discussions tears ago that CCD devices are going to destroy astronomy.. Well, looks like it didn't
Wolf Kotenberg

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by crockettpd » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:54 pm

Thanks for the APOD - downloading it to my screensaver files is part of my daily routine.
Great work and images.

pc

Jeana777

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Jeana777 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:57 pm

Happy Birthday!!! I love APOD!!!

Roni

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Roni » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:02 pm

Thank you so much for your website. It is my homepage and we made it the homepage at the environmental non-profit I founded and ran for 6 years. It is such a valuable service in these times to help us all remember the stunning beauty we are part of. Congrats!

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Joan Girones » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:14 pm

Well done fellows! The APOD's vigintennial year is just arround the corner.

lightway1

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by lightway1 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:35 pm

I have been checking out this site almost from its the beginning...you have brought many a wow factor to my days and given me much to share in my classrooms. Many Thanks for showing off His handy work..many awesome beautiful things created to be seen and explored!

Moyoak

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Moyoak » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:37 pm

Congratulations,

APOD was one of my first discoveries on the net in 1997 and is still one of my daily favorites.

big thank you, moyoak :lol:

Charles

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Charles » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:18 pm

Thanks - your site is often the high point of my working day!
Charles in San Francisco

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by v13 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:27 pm

Thank you very very much for APOD!

All these year it is exciting our minds!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Pink Eagle

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Pink Eagle » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:44 pm

Thank you for taking me beyond my human eye to gaze upon the realm I live in, overwhelmed with its' beauty and awe! Your hard work is much appreciated by me and my family. Happy 15th and light-years to come :)

Yarp

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Yarp » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:25 pm

Congrats.
I visit APOD every day. Thank you for all those beautiful pictures and information.
Yarp from Nantes, France

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by iamarobot » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:38 pm

atthespeedoflight wrote:Thank you APOD for bringing me these visions of creation every morning. I always knew they were out there and just waiting for us to join the party. I spread the word and have convinced people to log on daily. Long may you continue to bring these 'gaspers' into view!
i agree! APOD is a daily ritual for me, and i too love to see the mystery and magic of creation every morning - really puts things in perspective!
thank you and happy birthday!!!

ATrin

Re: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by ATrin » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:02 pm

Happy Anniversary and Millions of thanks, Rob and Jerry, for this extraordinary work of 15 years!
APOD is my Homepage for almost 13 years now. My daughter (now 18) never used another Homepage since she has a computer for herself.
Please, keep making our days! A myriad of fans will follow you.

Guest

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Guest » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:06 pm

Rather than try to create my own superlatives to describe the great work you've done, and continue to do, with APOD over the years, I'd just like to concur with everyone else's words of awesomeness!
Congratulations on a wonderful achievement.
APOD is one of only a handful of sites that I visit EVERY day (the other few relate to my work, so they don't really count!).

Norm

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Norm » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:22 pm

Congratulations on your persistence for sharing your knowledge and the knowledge of so many people for 15 years. I hope I'm still around to celebrate your 30th anniversary!

Norm

SusanJane

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by SusanJane » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:50 pm

I've been a fan for years now. Astronomy fascinates me even though I don't own a telescope. The skies continue to remind me of my place in the pantheistic universe. Thank you.

htom

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by htom » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:55 pm

Happy birthday, APOD, and thank you to all of you who bring it to us every day. I'm not sure when I started, sometime in the first year, first a link, then another link, then bookmarked ... you were my browser's homepage before the first anniversary. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Guest » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:13 am

Happy birthday APOD. 15 is a maturing age for any human endeavour, on the internet an amazing achievement. We as a species are unique in many ways, and being able to step out from our daily activities and wonder at the world at large is perhaps the most remarkable of all. We have the arts of literature, music & performances, and the sciences abstract & practical, but the awe of being able to look up and marvel is both the simplest of acts, and yet the most challenging. Our place in the universe is incomprehensibly small, yet that it is comprehensible is deeply satisfying. Astronomy is perhaps the only science where the keen amateur can have knowledge, or at least more than passing familiarity, with the professional and academic level of the subject. As such, APOD is a stunning testament to us and to the universe. So my very humble thank you to all involved.

Brent

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Brent » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:14 am

Thanks so much for your daily contributions to the awe in my life. I count on you for a sense of wonder and humility.

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by biddie67 » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:30 am

I am glad that I wasn't able to get the chance to come to the BB until this late in the evening - I have had a marvelous time reading all the comments! Like most of these folks, APOD is the first thing that I look at every morning when I connect to the internet. Your dedicated work has given us a wonderful website that appeals not only to our minds but also to our souls.

Thanks to you both for all your work in building this website and thanks also to all the folks in the background - can't forget all the photographers and digital artists that contribute also!!

Here's to many more years - Happy 15th!!!!!

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by whawk3 » Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:26 am

Happy birthday and many many thanks!

#1 site on any "Best of the Internet" list that I could imagine . . .

apodee

Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by apodee » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:36 am

Thanks so very much for the many years of great photos. Keep up the good work!!!

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Re: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)

Post by Beyond » Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:29 am

WOW!!!! Apod celebrates 15 years of bringing Space down to Earth. 7 pages of everybody saying the same thing differently and only a few with double posts!! That just has to be some kind of record.
I have to admit, though, that Joan Girones referrence to Apod's "Vigintennial" being just around the corner eludes my little Webster's college dictionary, so i do not know what it means. Perhaps she will explain it before the event happens?
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