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by keitha0000
Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:58 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Favorite APOD
Replies: 208
Views: 2945494

Re: Re:

Rouzbeh wrote:
Orca wrote:The Andromeda galaxy is certainly photogenic...always been one of my favorites!
This is a good example of Andromeda
Hmmmm, this too, is a fave of mine.
Had a giant poster of it in my room when I was a teenager.
Spent much time staring at it in wonderment...

Cheers.
by keitha0000
Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:55 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Favorite APOD
Replies: 208
Views: 2945494

Re: Favorite APOD

APOD_admirer wrote:Eta Carinae is my favorite APOD entry:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080617.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae

APOD_admirer
I have to agree on this one...
by keitha0000
Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Introductions: How did you become interested in astronomy?
Replies: 271
Views: 2033125

Re: Introductions: How did you become interested in astronom

... my problem with "truth" and science is that if theories that are wrong can make accurate predictions, then theories we think are right (that is, true) bc they work can also turn out to be wrong... This so cool, isn't it? Take care. I don't think anyone needs to understand the math beh...
by keitha0000
Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:33 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Introductions: How did you become interested in astronomy?
Replies: 271
Views: 2033125

Re: Introductions: How did you become interested in astronom

Keith Allingham, a tech marketing guy in Canada. I became interested in astronomy reading some of the great articles (with great photos and artwork) in National Geographic magazine in the late 60s and early 70s; I still have most of them. My parents then gave me a copy of the Flammarion Book of Astr...