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APOD: The Leap Day tradition, this silver coin, I like it. :ssmile: Tunç Tezel Except in 2012 and 2008 which different pictures were featured! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120229.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080229.html I see that 2008 picture is yours :) Have you added any more lunar eclipses...

APOD: The Leap Day tradition, this silver coin, I like it.

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There is nothing about this image that remotely reflects the actual appearance of the event. It is synthesized from different times and different light levels in order to illustrate some aspects of the event that are not visible to the human eye. Do not attempt to analyze anything other than the ge...

In the legend, the scribbles labeled V CrB and V Oph look to be the same image.

Meanwhile, the third scribble from left in the top row of the main image does not have a labeled version.

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Yes, actually quite a few times before, thanks Orin.

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orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:59 pm We had this subject Once befor; but today's photo is a lot nicer!

Nice view. Annotated version has better, richer colours.

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I started photographing Saturn and Jupiter at least one per year (and generally more) after getting into astrophotography in late 1992. The first images in 1993 were not close to their oppositions, but in the later years I tried to catch them close enough to their oppositions. When you wait long eno...

I’d like to see (and actually prefer) an all-sky version of this. Tunç Tezel https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_220826.jpg Little Planet South Pole Explanation: Lights play around the horizon of this snowy little planet as it drifts through a starry night sky. Of course the little planet is actua...

Hello, I labeled the Saturn image in the middle of Gemini as 2003-4, as Saturn's opposition was on 1st January 2004, and that Saturn season was split equally between 2003 and 2004. I was able to image the planet in November 2003; I was not able to photograph Saturn around that opposition because I w...

Good call Neufer, remembering it is Festivus today. :ssmile: Tunç What's the red spot to the left of the comet? That was a plane, moving a short distance during the 4-second exposure. - Tunç Tezel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xteXgurD-DM <<In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect is a physical...

beryllium732 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:19 pm What's the red spot to the left of the comet?

That was a plane, moving a short distance during the 4-second exposure.

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Pictures from Viking missions looks to have better colour balance. Now, they are set to have excessive brown-yellow.

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Mars & Uranus, 2020-'21 2020 was a good year for Mars observing, with the red planet coming to a perihelic opposition on 13-14th October and shining as bright as mag. -2.6. Uranus was also visible in Aries, performing a much slower retrograde motion of its own. Here, motions of Mars and Uranus ...

When this picture was taken, the Earth was a narrow crescent, so it was close to a full Moon. I wondered if there was an eclipse around that time, and yes, there was a total Lunar eclipse 3 days after the picture was taken, on 10th Fabruary 1971: http://www.eclipsewise.com/lunar/LEprime/1901-2000/LE...

Hi everyone, long time, no see. I've heard that the conjunction will be the closest since 1623, and also that it will be the closest in around 800 years. Which one is it? It is the closest since 1623, and it will not be this close again for another 800 years. Actually, the conjunction on 15th March...

The conjunction in 1623 was very difficult to observe because it happened while the Sun was 12 degrees away. The other conjunction probably mentioned was in 1226, which had the planets rather easily visible in predawn skies.

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Jupiter & Saturn, 2000-'01
Retrograde motions of Jupiter and Saturn between June 2000 and May 2001, when they were close to each other in Taurus.
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No new HiRISE posts since April, bummer...

Asteroid 1998 OR ; 52768 Near Earth asteroid's close pass between 20:30 – 20:56 UT on 28th April 2020. By Uğur İKİZLER http://ikizler.org/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=6460 http://ikizler.org/albums/userpics/10001/1998_OR_28_52768_29_ps_a.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2a4SV...

From Earth To Omega Centauri Single-shot photograph of Omega Centauri 2 degrees over the southern horizon; as seen from latitude 40d 7' N, Uludag NP near Bursa, Turkey. Copyright: Tunç Tezel http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos.asp?ID=3005850 http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photos/3005850.jpg

Great panoramic picture. It should be interesting to compare this nightscape with the panorama profile generated by Peakfinder:
https://www.peakfinder.org/?lat=42.9369 ... 835&cfg=sm

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This newly processed image looks good. Now there are some background stars visible, is it possible to identify which stars these are?

By the way, it is always nice to see a Valentine's Day APOD with something other than Rosette Nebula or Heart Nebula.

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...And, man looks rather surprised by this scenery. :shock: :lol2: Great view, nice colours. Tunç Tezel Man Meets Milky Way ESO Picture of the Week | 2019 Sep 23 https://cdn.eso.org/images/thumb700x/potw1938a.jpg This week’s Picture of the Week showcases the bulging heart of the Milky Way as it hang...

Because there was a layer of high haze, sometimes thin clouds on that day.

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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:54 pm Why is the sun whiter in the equinox band than in both solstice bands?

Thank you Mark. I had photographed this image from the rooftop of our apartment building in Bursa, Turkey; located at 40° 11' N, 29° 4' E. -There are already inevitable messages about the duration between sunrise and sunset being longer than 12 hours on equinox days. This is further complicated by h...