Search found 6316 matches
- Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: HiRISE Updates Week of 2018 Sep 03
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4531
Re: HiRISE Updates Week of 2018 Sep 03
These are all gorgeous; thank you for posting them, bystander!!
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7048
Re: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Lovely poster. I don't have Twitter, but I thought I would check this out, since I supposedly don't need an account. But I was told that I should log in or sign up if I wanted to read more. :( Ann It is a lovely poster indeed. For Twitter, try going here: https://twitter.com/search-home And then se...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7048
Re: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Oh!!! One of the speakers presented remotely as she couldn't travel to Vienna, because, as she put it, “like some galaxies, I have a large bulge to total mass ratio”! Later that day, it was reported that the bulge was now a newborn. :-) See here: https://twitter.com/MatthewColless/status/10321970350...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7048
Re: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Okay, so the above is a general announcement about this event, which has just over 3,000 people from 88 (!) countries in attendance and, like the Olympics, has a formal passing of the baton, with national flags involvement, in a closing ceremony. Or so I've been told; this is the first time I've att...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7048
XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
https://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/k_galaxy3d/images/Logo_1608_200x280.jpg The 30th General Assembly (GA) of the nearly-100-year-old International Astronomical Union (IAU) started this past Monday, August 20 in Vienna, Austria. This event is held every three years; the previou...
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:25 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Owl Time
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10664
Re: Owl Time
I love owls (which I suspect is no surprise to folks here :ssmile:). I've seen numerous owls both in rehab facilities and in the wild. Years ago, my best friend and I both had meetings in San Francisco the same week. We flew west early so we could spend the weekend before our meetings birding in the...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 6:36 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: HiRISE Updates Week of 2018 May 14
- Replies: 1
- Views: 18554
Re: HiRISE Updates Week of 2018 May 14
"Barchan Pac-Man"
hahahaha! Cute!
That top dune pic is a knock-out; wow!!
hahahaha! Cute!
That top dune pic is a knock-out; wow!!
- Tue May 01, 2018 3:58 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: 10 reasons
- Replies: 516
- Views: 631913
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:24 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: 10 reasons
- Replies: 516
- Views: 631913
Re: 10 reasons
Alexander Waugh's primary claim has the advantage that it can be scientifically tested: Waugh claims that Edward de Vere's remains lie buried under Shakespeare's 1740 statue in Poet's Corner. Alexander Waugh's secondary claim supports what Baconians have been saying for 160 years : That the Stratfo...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 5:23 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Found Images: 2018 April
- Replies: 53
- Views: 221904
Found Images: 2018 April
Have you seen a great image or video somewhere that you think would make a great APOD? Nominate it for APOD! Please post as much information here as you have about the image/video with a link to any source(s) for it you know of here, and the editors will take a look. When posting the image itself, ...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 5:20 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2018 April
- Replies: 78
- Views: 257598
Submissions: 2018 April
__________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please post your images here. Please see this thread before posting images; posting images demonstrates your agreement with the possible uses for your image. If hotlinking to an image, please ensure i...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: 10 reasons
- Replies: 516
- Views: 631913
Re: 10 reasons
<<Alexander Waugh (born 1963) is an English eccentric ... Waugh is an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, the belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works of William Shakespeare. He claims to have found surreptitious allusions embedded in 16th- and 17th-century works revealing that...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:18 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Enceladus in Silhouette (2018 Feb 15)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13163
Re: APOD: Enceladus in Silhouette (2018 Feb 15)
Stunning image!!!! What a planet!!!
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:36 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41078
Re: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Day 1 at AAS:
Day 2 at AAS:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:07 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41078
Re: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
The abstracts for the AAS sessions are indexed by ADS; word clouds for each day's sessions are here: http://ads.harvard.edu/events/AAS231/
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:41 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1039093
Re: Weather!
ABOVE FREEZING!!!! Hallelujah, yahoo, and woo-hoo!!!!!!
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41078
Re: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Day Zero at AAS:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41078
Re: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
James Davenport is vlogging his AAS 231 experience; you can follow along here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6zx6 ... 39TIjwJSZA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6zx6 ... 39TIjwJSZA
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:13 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Replies: 4
- Views: 41078
231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
The AAS 231st meeting starts Monday evening outside Washington, DC; pre-meeting sessions start on Sunday. Astronomy Picture of the Day editors Jerry Bonnell and Robert Nemiroff will appear in public together (a rare thing!) at the AAS meeting to give a free public lecture about APOD on Tuesday eveni...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:17 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Provocative Title (MetaThread)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 157607
Re: Provocative Title (MetaThread)
Vocal expressions of amusement sufficient to awaken feline life form.
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 6:15 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1039093
Re: Weather!
It's 12°F (-12°C) here at 1 AM. Nome Alaska is warmer (27°F/-3°C at 21:00). Our high for the day was 18°F, so yeah, still colder than Nome. Colder than Tromso (-6°C) and Bergen is having a heat wave... it's 0°C there right now. At least I'm not on Boston. My kitchen pipes tend to freeze when the tem...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: To Fly Free in Space (2017 Dec 31)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11888
Re: APOD: To Fly Free in Space (2017 Dec 31)
I love this APOD and was glad to see it today.
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:50 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Provocative Title (MetaThread)
- Replies: 193
- Views: 157607
Re: Provocative Title (MetaThread)
Appreciation for emoticon mentioned last in previous post!!!!!
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: GW170817: A Spectacular Merger Event... (2017 Oct 16)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16087
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:37 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in... (2017 Sep 12)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12361
Re: APOD: A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in... (2017 Sep 12)
Goosebumps!!!!