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Joe Cap : "Greetings, fellow earthlings." Howdy, Joe. Very nice to hear from you. "My apolgies for what is about to be a long post, but I have been curious about a number of things for a while, and have not gotten any answers at any of the astronomy sites I have been to:" Person...

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I am not the owner of that photo, but dang is that a great shot of the Double Cluster or what?

~The Meal

FWIW, through my binoculars, I only really see two blurries in this region of space (Triffid and Lagoon), so personally I don't begrudge him NGC 6559. Of course his telescopes do have a bit more aperture than my 10x50 binocs...

~The Meal

As a burgeoning skygazer (my 8" Dob is scheduled to arrive this very afternoon), I always appreciate the photos with the "roll-over" text and constellation demarkations. Is this something the photographer provides, or is this part of the APOD staff's value-add to the process? Either w...

Were they linking to a 40MB file at the time?

That's good to hear that this has been trouble-free in the past, though.

~The Meal

Yikes. Hope you've been paying your bandwidth bills...



~The Meal

Great APOD ! I have to admit that I'm a sucker for naked-eye astronomical events. I've used many APODs in the past as desktop backgrounds (David Cortner's June 23'rds Transit of Venus through the clouds being a long-standing background that constantly gets praised and questioned), and shots like the...

Fer'instance right after <b> Authors & editors: </b> <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn.html">Robert Nemiroff</a> (<a href="http://www.phy.mtu.edu/">MTU</a>) & <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/ bonnell.html">Jerry Bonnell...

Like the FAQ on the "For Beginners" page. However, I'd like an explanation added as to the objects noted in the yellow squares (such as is seen in this image from the Canary Islands) as seen in the annoted photos.

Just a suggestion,
~The Meal

Gah, I can answer this myself. They're both Perseids, its just that I need to wrap my walnut-sized brain around the concept of the radiant and a fish-eye lens. Upon a bit more reflection I've convinced myself they're both coming from Perseus. ~The Meal (sunset in Colorado, just waiting for the twigh...

Another nice one in the Canary Islands: http://nightskylive.net/ci/ci040812/ci040812ut005907p.jpg Curious about a blip from a few slides later, however. There's a "scratch" immediately "SE" of the W designator (3pm position) in this slide: http://nightskylive.net/ci/ci040812/ci04...

Yeah, the current Mauna Kea animation shows that last Perseid very well. Very cool (although I'm hoping for no clouds tonight, personally).

~The Meal