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Thanks Rob and Chris for your help :).

Hoping that I am not considered to be getting (have already got :wink:) irritating by asking some questions recently I wonder if anyone has had thoughts on my query about the correct date of the end of the Cassini Mission in my post on Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:33 pm in the APOD: Over Saturn's Turbulent North Pole (2016 Dec 12). :?:

This is the link to the discussion:- [url]http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=36633[/url]

Edit added about 22:48 UT December 14 2016. Thanks to Chris for responding to my query about the date.

[quote="DavidLeodis"]I have tried two browsers and both cannot open the 'Alvin Wu' link in the credit. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem :?:[/quote]
There is no link, just an email address, which is obfuscated so it can't be easily scanned by robots. If you want to contact him, the mail is 412924302 (at) qq (dot) com, reformatted in what should be a fairly obvious way (if you're not a robot yourself... although I understand that this kind of thing doesn't really work, since robots are now very smart).

[quote="DavidLeodis"]I have tried two browsers and both cannot open the 'Alvin Wu' link in the credit. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem :?:[/quote]
The link is attempting to go to [quote]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/412924302 @at@ qq .dot. com[/quote] which does not appear to be a valid form for a link. (The spaces shown are actually in the link, and by themselves would prevent any such link from working.)

Rob

I have tried two browsers and both cannot open the 'Alvin Wu' link in the credit. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem :?:

Lovely image. More on the down-to-earth side of this, ... it's a lovely photo of the Four Sisters mountains. The area is sometimes referred to as the Oriental Alps. The one that stands quite apart, at the left, is the "youngest and prettiest sister" (Yaomei Feng = Youngest Sister Peak). Next is Sanguiang Feng (right behind the meteor-watcher in the photo), then Erguniang Feng, and Daguniang Feng (oldest sister peak). Another good image of the mountains is at: [url]http://www.sichuanfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/changping-valley-4.jpg[/url]
The reputation is: it is a reasonable trek to climb the oldest sister. As you work your way north, though, the challenges mount quickly, so to speak. Taking on the youngest girl, Yaomei Feng, is very difficult. And so it appears in the photos.

[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="heehaw"]Why do I get the feeling that someone is trying to kill me?[/quote]
The Universe isn't [i]trying [/i]to kill you, but it will succeed in doing so, all the same.[/quote]
So true!

This picture has been photoshopped. It's still a neat picture, though.

[quote="heehaw"]Why do I get the feeling that someone is trying to kill me?[/quote]
The Universe isn't [i]trying [/i]to kill you, but it will succeed in doing so, all the same.

I like this image! :D

I like the composition, and I really like the colors. The overall sky color is a grayish purplish fancy blue, and the regularly spaced pink emission nebulas are really decorative. The nebulas are, from left to right, [url=http://www.nightskyinfo.com/cms/img/archive-img/mu_cephei/mu_cephei.jpg]IC 1396, seen here[/url] by Matt BenDaniel), [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Cederblad_214_and_NGC_7822_Nebulae_-_Davidedemartin_6.jpg/220px-Cederblad_214_and_NGC_7822_Nebulae_-_Davidedemartin_6.jpg]NGC 7822[/url] (by Davide de Martin and ESA/ESO/NASA, and that nebula was the one I was uncertain about - the darn thing doesn't have any blue stars!!!), the [url=http://tinyurl.com/j8xhpke]Heart and Soul Nebulas[/url] (IC 1805 and IC 1848, by Leonardo Orazi), [url=http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/11/pleiades-star-cluster-and-the-california-nebula.html]the California Nebula[/url] and the [url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/02/93/74/02937467c6c8540e23f33d7a1f53ff6c.jpg]Flaming Star Nebula[/url] (IC 405).

[float=right][img]http://www.cliparthut.com/clip-arts/1423/friends-hanging-out-clip-art-1423038.jpg[/img][/float]Very beautiful! And I love the name of the mountain, too. Four Girls Mountain! :D

Ann

Why do I get the feeling that someone is trying to kill me?

[float=left][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SNtGk_6Z7o[/youtube][/float]


[i][color=#0000FF]The one that stands quite apart, at the left, is the "youngest and prettiest sister". Next is Sanguiang Feng and Daguniang Feng (oldest sister). The reputation is: it is a reasonable trek to climb the oldest sister. As you work your way left, though, the challenges mount quickly, so to speak. Taking on the youngest girl, Yaomei Feng, is very difficult. And so it appears in the video.[/color][/i]

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161213.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_161213.jpg[/img] [size=150]Meteors over Four Girls Mountain[/size][/url]

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