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[quote="Sa Ji Tario" post_id=318040 time=1636257690]
Friend Johnny, I have had these eyes for 81 years without ever wearing glasses
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I've been nearsighted since early childhood. Apparently, mother Nature didn't want me to be distracted by far off things :)

Friend Johnny, I have had these eyes for 81 years without ever wearing glasses

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[quote="Sa Ji Tario" post_id=318029 time=1636215333]
Two very faint meteor tracks are seen between 6 and 7 in Ann's image and between Andromeda and the left edge
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Damn, your eyes are good! I eventually found all three, but one is MUCH easier to spot than the other two.
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¡Awesome!

[quote="Sa Ji Tario" post_id=318029 time=1636215333]
Two very faint meteor tracks are seen between 6 and 7 in Ann's image and between Andromeda and the left edge
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Damn, your eyes are good! I eventually found all three, but one is MUCH easier to spot than the other two.

Two very faint meteor tracks are seen between 6 and 7 in Ann's image and between Andromeda and the left edge

Thanks Ann! I love the time you spend on these!


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8-)

Now look at the rocks. Isn't that quite similar to those rock formations seen on pictures from Mars?

[quote]the two friends stood about 3 light-nanoseconds apart.[/quote] These are good units, and we should use them! https://henry.pha.jhu.edu/2-pager.pdf

[float=left][attachment=1]APOD November 6 2021 annotated.png[/attachment][/float]

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1) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Cassiopeia_starfield.jpg/1055px-Cassiopeia_starfield.jpg]The "W" of Cassiopeia[/url]

2) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/NGC_281_The_Pacman_Nebula.jpg/1200px-NGC_281_The_Pacman_Nebula.jpg]The Pacman Nebula, NGC 281[/url]

3) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/The_Double_Cluster_in_Perseus_-_Flickr_-_gjdonatiello.jpg/761px-The_Double_Cluster_in_Perseus_-_Flickr_-_gjdonatiello.jpg]The Double Cluster in Perseus[/url]

4) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Heart-nebula.jpg/1200px-Heart-nebula.jpg]The Heart Nebula[/url]

5) [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1602/Soul_Colombari_960.jpg]The Soul Nebula[/url]

6) [url=https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=36696&sid=781273d8b2919e6e1ca9bfc74ff5ab8f&mode=view]Alpha Persei Moving Cluster[/url] (Image by Naoyuki Kurita)

7) [url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Messier_34#/media/File:M34a.jpg]M34, a relatively young open cluster[/url]

8) [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/NGC_752.png]NGC 752, a relatively old open cluster[/url]

9) [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy#/media/File:Andromeda_Galaxy_560mm_FL.jpg]Andromeda Galaxy[/url]

10) [url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirach_and_"Mirach%27s_Ghost"_by_Giuseppe_Donatiello.jpg]Beta Andromedae, Mirach[/url] (and background galaxy Mirach's Ghost)

11) M33, the Triangulum Galaxy

And I can't keep this from you:


[float=right][attachment=0]M33 by Adam Block.png[/attachment][c][size=85][color=#0040FF]M33. Photo: Adam Block.[/color][/size][/c][/float][float=left][img3="Constellation Perseus with the Double Cluster, Alpha Persei Moving Cluster (just above center, slightly to the left) and the California Nebula (red arc below center). Note the Heart and Soul nebulas (in Cassiopeia) and the Pleiades (in Taurus). Photo: Tony Hallas."]https://astronomy.com/-/media/Images/Magazine%20Articles/2020/01/ASYDS0120_02.jpg?mw=600[/img3][/float]

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Ann

[size=65]So I may have drawn the "W" of Cassiopeia wrong. Sue me![/size]

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211106.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_211106.jpg[/img] [size=150]The Galaxy Between Two Friends[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] On an August night two friends [url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDUY7Rsj1t/]enjoyed this view[/url] after a day's hike on the Plateau d'Emparis in the French Alps. At 2400 meters altitude the sky was clear. Light from a setting moon illuminates the foreground captured in the simple vertical panorama of images. Along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy stars of Cassiopeia and Perseus shine along the panorama's left edge. But seen as a faint cloud with a brighter core, the [url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-31-the-andromeda-galaxy]Andromeda galaxy[/url], stands directly above the two friends in the night. The nearest large spiral galaxy, Andromeda is about 2.5 million light-years beyond the stars of the Milky Way. Adding to the evening's shared [url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/chandra-sees-evidence-for-possible-planet-in-another-galaxy.html]extragalactic[/url] perspective, the fainter fuzzy spot in the sky right between them is M33, also known as the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191231.html]Triangulum galaxy[/url]. Third largest in the [url=https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/local_group_info.html]local galaxy group[/url], after Andromeda and Milky Way, the Triangulum galaxy is about 3 million light-years distant. On that night, the two friends stood about 3 [url=https://units.fandom.com/wiki/Light-nanosecond]light-nanoseconds[/url] apart.


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