Starship Asterisk*

A vent wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:34 am At what point do we start using hieroglyphics again? Grammar in any language is important. Nice post, just not proof read, if I had to say

Well hieroglyphic languages had grammar rules as well but I have to point out you left out the period at the end of your post!

Eric

As Mars lacks any significant amount of water, and Mars has no magnetic field to deflect cosmic rays, would anyone care to take a stab at guessing the total human population of Mars: say one century from now? Mars actually has significant amounts of water, most of it is underground though a large a...

I worry this latest dust storm is going to ruin the view like at the last opposition. All I ever got to see was the brilliant ice cap. That was great and always a thrill but I keep thinking of what I missed. Please o God of War keep your skies clear this time so I may gaze at your blood red beauty!!...

Jupiter is a whopping 47.3 arc seconds in diameter right now, not too far away from someone with fighter pilot eyesight to make out as a disc! It was an even bigger 47.6 just days ago at opposition. And if you have a really big scope Pluto is only a degree and a half away from Jupiter roughly toward...

Dang, this is beautiful and so is the illustration Neufer posted. Thank you!

Eric

Stunning piece of art and science! This sharp close-up was recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope and is reprocessed here to show off the remarkable details of the complex planetary nebula, highlighting in particular light emitted by iron, shown in red. I wonder just how much iron is in that nebula....

Beautiful image, the foreground really makes it. It resembles an impressionist work. The only thing I don’t care for is the exaggerated color on the nebula, it looks unnatural and is distracting. Actually I think cutting off the right third would make a stronger composition. Sorry just the illustrat...

When are we going to get some images of NEOWISE?

Very nice photo. I like how natural it looks, no garish tacked on out of scale foreground. The grain is nice too, reminds me of the shots in “Astronomy” and “Sky and Telescope” in the 70’s and 80’s.

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:45 am!
Went outside early this morning and noticed a
light near the moon; I presumed I was looking
at Venus! Twas a pretty scene also!

Indeed it was! Reminded me of this...



Eric

Has anyone been able to see this comet with your own eyes yet? Saw it very easily this morning. Didn't need to start with binoculars or even know where to look. At 4am in the northeast it was glaringly obvious- a bright star with a long tail. By 4:30, against a lighter sky, it was even more apparen...

Yes, I am surrounded by a gaseous discharge!

Eric

Cool shot but I get annoyed when they talk about Mercury’s atmosphere. It’s actually more accurately termed an exosphere. It’s just a bunch of stray atoms flying around that aren’t even a gas because they never collide with one another. Other than that Mercury is a fascinating planet. It’s a bitter ...

Watched this on a 50 inch tv, almost hurled!
Wonderful video!

Eric

Nicely done!