Starship Asterisk*

Once again, I find myself amongst a group of people who are either incapable of handling constructive criticism or are too blinkered to notice when something needs to be corrected or improved. APOD and You Visiting APOD is like engaging in a human relationship - if you abandon it because of imperfe...

On Sun Aug 10 16:47:32 2008, ijc@gbis.com wrote: >> Hello, >> I've been trying to find some help with the trouble I'm experiencing >> with APOD's "Picture of the Day" program. >> I have a new PC/Vista OS, and can't get it to work, or find a link to >> ask anyone for tech assistance. Would...

how coincidental is it that the moon just happens to be almost exactly the size of the disk of the sun to produce a total solar eclipse, or perhaps I should ask why? no where else that i assume, does this happen in the solar system, why or how is it that it only happems here? Take any point of refe...

According to http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/hematite_blueberries_040319.html ... "blueberries" ... are, for the record, gray in color <<... Yellow, orange and red create a " warm grey ". Green, blue, or purple, create a " cool grey ". When there is no cast at al...

Earthbelow's comment, thus far, wins the "best comment" consensus and deservedly so... For everyone, I dont know about you, but I don't buy everything I see on the grocery store shelf. If you had no appetite for the selection today, then simply move on. I like your comments MrDon!... espe...

Earthbelow wrote:Somewhere in an alternate universe the Dancing Picture of the Day site is being besieged by complaints about the inclusion of a picture of the Horsehead Nebula.

Best comment of the thread!

I can't be bothered to take a poll of pro and antis but gosh, there are some tight-****** people here. I came to mock, people dancing feugh! Got even more scornful when I saw Mr.Matt and his 'dance', but I stayed to enjoy, and laugh. Loosen up, you diehard apodders. Enjoy! This is a piece of fun, f...

And as for the 'whiners' comment from Indigo Sunrise. How very dare you.... I dare very well, thank you much. You can't say it's not true. People whine about the silliest stuff. Is it going to matter tomorrow what the APoD was for today? Or a week from now? A year? 100 yrs from now? Is it really go...

Well, I didn't know it was well known, or that it was sponsored by chewing gum until I read this thread. But I had come to post a complaint. What a disappointment. What was the point? Except driving more traffic to the forum maybe? Really, the guy can't even effing dance. And every cloud has a silv...

I have to agree on this particular APOD. There's not even a tenuous link to astronomy and JPL. Come on guys, the Kayuga lunar mission has been delivering incredible videos of fly-overs of Tycho crater on the moon and we get people dancing on here. http://lpod.wikispaces.com/July+17%2C+2008 http://wm...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080718.html (SNIP) Then my second thought… what if Earth was to abruptly stop rotating dead in its tracks… According to the numbers, I would leave the ground at roughly 832 mph given my present latitude. But then I realized that I am inside a building that is much more a...

And, of course, one must never forget that the more possible arms configurations, the more arguments/opinions about arms, the more different possible maps, etc., etc., the more papers, theses, and dissertations that can be published. This is how science works - the more trees that are killed, the c...

I live in Sacramento, center of the valley, so we aren't that close to the actual flames. I'm more concerned for my fiance who went camping down by Santa Cruz. All the regions along the coast and in upper regions surrounding the valley seem to be ablaze. A satellite map shows alot... http://www.nas...

One time I brought a telescope that fit in my suitcase on vacation with me to the beach. The beach was safe to lie upon in the daytime - the sand was presumably too hot for insects. It was also free of insects at night as long as I was standing up. But with this little telescope and a homemade trav...

Hi Everybody, Thanks for the helpful replies to my original question, it is much appreciated. I notice that the debris cloud limb looks flattened/oblate at the point of the brightened yellow/white line and wondered if this is because the matter which is causing the brightness in the limb is also slo...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080704.html Well, this is a beauty isn't it. Looks like a cheerleader's pom-pom. Save the cheerleader.... :lol: Can anybody identify the white/yellow line that runs along the outer edge of this 'bubble' at top right? Is it just a thickening of matter that is highlighted, ...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html

Looks like Kermit to me.

Hey, it even has eyes at the top!

... my 35 year old math and physics texts ... ... at least 35 years ago that i had to deal ... ... 33 (!) years ago ... Is there a cosmologist among you who doesn't believe that time goes only forward? I'm kind of surprised we haven't heard from any fans of negative time yet. I started counting bac...

OK, the two images are available for download here: Thanks Andy, for providing shelter for my images. I must admit, the animated gif that qev shared with us, outclasses my efforts. I wonder, how did he do that? You're most welcome Henk. I know, he's clever isn't he? I have a picture editing program...

OK, the two images are available for download here: http://www.andywade.com/marsphoenix/s20.png http://www.andywade.com/marsphoenix/s24.png Save them to your harddrive and you can swap between the two in a suitable picture viewer on your own computer. Or you can do it by opening one up, then pasting...

Split up the two images of the Vanishing act . Determined the horizontal and vertical shift between both and shifted one of them back. Then stored both images to disk. When you load these into a viewer and switch back and forward, a few things are visible. In the shade, left bottom of the trench, s...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080605.html Now that's what I call an amazing picture. I guess what is really special is that it's our own galaxy. I'm used to seeing pictures of other galaxies but never our own, all in one shot. Marvellous stuff! Thanks to the APOD team for showing this one. Well...

Nando wrote:Hello. Yes, great combined photo. Has anyone else noticed the vertical column of blue light from the middle (bottom) of the photo on the horizon? If so, can anyone shed light on what the nature of the blue light column is due to? Thanks!

Sun Dog?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

No, I'm not a proofreader by trade, but my eye catches a lot of things . And you're absolutely right. Anne My bold. May I recommend Optrex for that? http://www.optrex.co.uk/ Be careful APOD writers! You could have someone's eye out with that bad grammar/spelling/syntax! (delete as appropriate). :lo...

What's the yellow dot at approximately 11 o'clock from the star?
Is it another star showing through from behind, or an orbiting gas giant being set alight?
I favour the former of course but it would be nice to think we could see something like a planet highlighted in this most unusual circumstance.