Starship Asterisk*

Clicked on the image to get the larger version. Wow! Quite a few twinkling stars are easily seen. I was wondering how many actual stars are represented in the gif. M15 has over 100,000 stars according to one of the links. The gif has about 7 million pixels so a large number of actual stars could be ...

The "use a zoom tool" link is an overwhelming view. Looks difficult to call interstellar space empty. Maybe intergalactic now.

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I happened to be taking a Moon pic about 4 minutes after impact. Just a point and shoot camera so no moondust cloud visible. The lighted portion of the moon in my pic (and eyeball) is at about the 11 0'clock area. The APOD pic shows the lighted area at 3 - 4 o'clock. My location is in mid-USA (N35.1...

I like the composition. Martin Junius put a lot of thought, effort, and time in his work. I had favorable weather and did get a few pictures of the eclipse, but nothing like his.

Nicely done.

I was watching NASA TV showing the JPL Control Room during the landing. Twenty or thirty extremely tense folks that could do nothing regarding the landing activities. After it landed and they could breathe again, they went to work. There is already a good lander/landscape shot on the NASA site. http...

neufer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:21 am

This telephoto gives no indication how close the photographers were actually standing.[/list]

The "Launched" link in APOD has more details and pics including info that the "blockhouse" is 500 feet from the launch pad.

http://www.spaceline.org/bumper.html

Looking at the info in RJN's link, I wonder if those camera men knew there had been some sort of failure on 6 of the 7 previous launches or attempted launches.

A link to current wind currents around the world.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/w ... ,21.76,345

Brian

Just semantics, but it seems odd to say the Hayabusa2 is hovering when it has an orbital speed of something like 60,000 mph. More like it is orbiting (flying?) in formation with Ryugu.

The "featured animation" is quite busy, especially the "everything at once" option. Thanks for pointing it out Dan.

Alec, Thanks for your posts. Quite informative even for a bystander like myself. Hopefully Mother Nature created a neutron star long ago and its neutrinos are just about here.

Brian

Czerno O: The streak is somewhere in the range of 2100 feet long and 1050 feet wide at the widest point. I downloaded the JPEG/JP2 black and white map-projected from the site listed in JohnD's post. That map is apparently 5 km across, but it shows more than today's APOD. Scaling the streak based on ...

JohnD: Do you know the pixel size of the "original image" ? On the featured image page there are two size choices for the "projected image", then at least three size choices for the selected flow image. Scaling the image off my computer screen and using the original image scale d...

A really eye-catching video. Good work!

The "crashed into it" link leads to an interesting ASOW about "Galaxies in Collision" (2012).

The "Not a photograph" link https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/milkyway_lund_big.gif is a 1950s drawing version of this photograph. It does show quite a few stars and other astronomical info, including a co-ordinate system. Those folks did a good job also.

Brian

The distances, depth, and details of these astronomy pictures continue to amaze me. Great!

Brian

bystander wrote: viewtopic.php?t=37997

bystander: thanks for the link.

Brian

thanks Ann. Nice additions to an awesome APOD.

Brian

Good work Detlef!

The "Discuss" link from this site https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html is not working properly.

Quite a picture though!

Apollo 12 splashed down in the Pacific on this day in 1969.

The "Discuss" link on this site https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html for today (2017 Nov 16) does not lead the correct web page.

Brian