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First light at The Field http://aldrich.club Copyright: Charles K Stevenson http://astro.charleskelleystevenson.com/files/20150607_0490_sm.jpg Here's a photo of me at the site our club leases from the Boy Scouts. It was my first time running off the car for astrophotography and ran into all sorts o...

It must have been absolutely stunning! :-)) In the dark days before civilization, when skies were truly dark. Can anyone imagine the wonder of the Milky Way stretching out across the sky? Has anyone tried to recreate that majesty in a photograph, including photoshopped examples? I live in a far sout...

This is a seriously long list! Where to start? Hi! I thought it would be great to create a linklist to astronomy-related websites. So I will start: MISSIONS Planets http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.go...

Thanks for offering this free material! I can't wait to dive in and learn. :-)) Posted in this forum are the lectures of a free introductory astronomy course as taught by me, APOD co-editor and university professor Robert Nemiroff, at Michigan Technological University in the fall of 2008. Each lectu...

Ran across this earlier today - found it interesting. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/coronal-loops-over-a-sunspot-group Stacked images where coronal lines help visualize the shape of magnetic fields on the sun. reduced size image sdo_0171_blos_reduced.jpg That is a truly bizarre image. Very cool...

orin stepanek wrote:Oh!!I can't wait!

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It's very exciting. We watched a video on the fly-by preview last weekend. Can't wait.

Ann wrote:That's a fine picture! And thanks for the annotation, Geck.

Ann

Ditto

I'm new to astronomy at 37-years old. I had some dabblings in high school but then a long time without much hands-on. I'm excited to join the forums and see what everyone is posting and learn. I caught the astrophotography bug in February and have been hooked ever since. I'm fortunate to have a loca...

Orca wrote:So a neutrino is sitting at the bar, drinking heavily.

"Another wiskey!" shouts the neutrino.

"Don't you think you've had enough?" asks the bar keep.

"Nah, they just go right through me!"




ba dum tss

Har har

raikko21 wrote:International Space Station

Telescope : CGEM DX1100
Camera : DMK51AU02.AS
Copyrights : Fayçal Demri / CRAAG

Awesome shot(s) I'm hoping to learn how to capture the ISS soon.

Very nice