Starship Asterisk*

E. A. Blair wrote:
I have no idea what's in the video because there's nothing but a blank, white screen.

james847 wrote:I don't get 1:50 - 2:02 (the eclipse).
Is that a total lunar ecplipse as stated in the text?

Lunar eclipse is when Earth is blocking moon = we are aligned Sun - Earth - Moon perfectly, right.
Then.. I don't get it.

mirtomlia wrote:
The sculptures on a salt lake - Lake Ballard Western Australia - the Antony Gormley Sculptures are displyed in the largest out door gallery -- the sculptures are scattered over the 10km salt lake in the Shire of Menzies. The sculptures are modeled on residents of the local area of Menzies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ballard wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF]The Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus)[/color][/b]

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Lake Ballard is an ephemeral salt lake. In 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Perth International Arts Festival the Inside Australia exhibition was commissioned. The artist and Turner Prize winner Antony Gormley installed 51 sculptures over an area of 10 square kilometres on the bed of the lake. The statues were to be removed at the conclusion of the festival but remain as a tourist exhibition.

Lake Ballard is used as a breeding site for Banded Stilts following major flood events. The stilts nest in large close-packed colonies on low islands in ephemeral inland salt lakes such as Lake Eyre, Lake Barlee and Lake Ballard. The last recorded nesting on the lake was in 1995 following the aftermath of Cyclone Bobby.

The Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) is a nomadic stilt from Australia. It belongs to the monotypical genus Cladorhynchus. It gets its name from the red-brown breast band found on breeding adults, but this is mottled or entirely absent in non-breeding adults and juveniles. Its remaining plumage is pied and the eyes are dark brown. They breed whenever the water conditions are suitable and lay 3-4 white, brown or black eggs on a scrape.>>

Brewer wrote:I especially liked the Southern Cross rising over the snow caped volcano. Such a simple constellation to have such a grip on me.

none wrote:There is no image.

Winslow1191 wrote:When I put my cursor on the still shot, the screen goes blank. WassUp?

neufer wrote:

Anthony Barreiro wrote:
I think tomorrow's apod might be this wheel on Mars.

No one will be interested in this shot tomorrow. (Instant obsolescence.)

It'll be rather the unique MRO parachute landing shot.

neufer wrote:Unless, that is, APOD could somehow photoshop Matt Harding into the JPL celebration.

Anthony Barreiro wrote:
I think tomorrow's apod might be this wheel on Mars.

hooray beer wrote:...
P.S. I know this is a little off topic, but this seems like an astronomy forum (captcha told me), and I was wondering, does Uranus have an Aurora Borealis? I never oserved it directly, but am guessing it does.

hooray beer wrote:
That's no sculpture...

I, for one, welcome our welcome our artistic alien overlords

[c]Those guys will have to compete for Earth
against Wenlock and Mandeville first [/c]