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[quote]Hey, I love a little poetry and beauty mixed among the physics and the astrophysics! Don't be a grouch![/quote]

There are plenty of those in "normal" photos of space..

[quote="Tony Peterson" post_id=280340 time=1520209959]
A beautiful photo, to be sure, but if it's so precious or valuable to the photographer to insist on a matermark across the middle of it....well, I'd rather something else was put up.
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Probably to protect his intellectual property.

Interesting...

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A beautiful photo, to be sure, but if it's so precious or valuable to the photographer to insist on a matermark across the middle of it....well, I'd rather something else was put up.

The birds in this image reminded me of an anecdote I once read about an observation of the alleged transit of some alleged [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanoid]vulcanoids[/url], sometime around the turn of the 20th century. I don’t have the book immediately at hand to relate the details of the story, but a skeptic had groused about the observer’s “fanciful birds.” The adjective is suspected to have been bowdlerized.

The Eagle nebula, right here

[quote=Tir post_id=280334 time=1520188429]
I always find such images as such a waste.. There are so many great photos, so many new ones are being made each day, space is such an incredible place.. And yet a quarter of those "Astronomy" pictures of the day, are night sky, some kind of moon and stuff, a picture any one of as could made..
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Hey, I love a little poetry and beauty mixed among the physics and the astrophysics! Don't be a grouch!

I always find such images as such a waste.. There are so many great photos, so many new ones are being made each day, space is such an incredible place.. And yet a quarter of those "Astronomy" pictures of the day, are night sky, some kind of moon and stuff, a picture any one of as could made..

We were taking the dog for an evening walk and noticed two bright lights near the horizon.
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It was a nice conjunction :wink:

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