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- Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:12 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Perseverance - strange object on Mars.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7107
Re: Perseverance - strange object on Mars.
a rock among many.
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: North American Nightscape (2021 Jan 29)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24205
Re: APOD: North American Nightscape (2021 Jan 29)
I'm actually with Holger on this one. This is not a matter of enhancing details normally invisible to the eye. It's a matter of adding something that was NOT THERE. One can't track the sky without smudging the land; one can't get the moonlit peaks without both underexposing and washing out the deep...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:08 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Best Astrophysics Meme
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6339
Re: Best Astrophysics Meme
Physicists are so different from astrophysicists, though, not just generally in human personalities, but also in the way math and models are handled. We all have to make fun of ourselves, sometimes.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:49 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Ranks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3938
Re: Ranks
Deactivated account for spamming the board to achieve the 100 post rank. Don't do that.
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8475
Re: Happy New Year!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 5:04 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8475
Re: Happy New Year!
Well, I'm still alive, aren't I?
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:14 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Question about satellites in Astronomy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3370
Re: Question about satellites in Astronomy
yeah, I bet you are genuinely interested and not just here to put sneaky advertising/spam links in the forum to increase the search engine rankings for the company that hired you
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Yay, Judy! Another discovery!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6404
Re: Yay, Judy! Another discovery!!
Thanks, owlice! Yeah, it was a lot of fun to work on this.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:53 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Utah's Monolith under the Milky Way
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4287
Re: Utah's Monolith under the Milky Way
I took a frantic drive out to a spot 80 miles WSW of Moab to 'greet the visitor'. Any Kubrick/2001 fan would be mesmerized by this thing sprouting up 17 miles down a bumpy dirt road near the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. 25 hours door-to-door, including 6.5 hours of shooting. Tried...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:50 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from... (2020 Oct 05)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 20443
Re: APOD: NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from... (2020 Oct 05)
I have a question: in galaxy pictures with this kind of resolution, can we see their globular clusters and if so, how do I tell one from a dimmer foreground star from our galaxy? You can see them, and they look a lot softer than a MW star and lack diffraction spikes. They'll usually be lumpy, too. ...
- Mon Oct 05, 2020 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from... (2020 Oct 05)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 20443
Re: APOD: NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from... (2020 Oct 05)
Where the diffraction spikes on foreground stars enhanced on this image? They look really strong when compared to this Hubble photo of NGC 5643 at Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/NGC_5643.png Just new and multiple sets of data used. The telescope nearly always points ...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:43 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Please help me attach pictures without uploading them to my own computer first!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3892
Re: Please help me attach pictures without uploading them to my own computer first!
what kind of computer do you have that won't let you delete images?
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2855
- Views: 992330
Re: Weather!
That's cool... Pat and I were down in Carmel-by-the-Sea earlier this year in the Before Times and were trying to find a statue or some art that suits us. Turns out that taste diminishes with multiples of thousands of dollars, though.
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:23 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: West Coast Fires
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6144
Re: West Coast Fires
Art, I need you to know that I have to put on my headphones to hear anything, and I am not going to needlessly expend such energy for a video that clearly contains the current potus in it. lol
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:26 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2855
- Views: 992330
Re: Weather!
Is that a sculpture out behind your greenhouse, Chris?
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:23 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: West Coast Fires
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6144
Re: West Coast Fires
Smoke haze is by far the worst weather I've had to endure. Here in Modesto it's been a solid few weeks with little relief. I used to think that constant cold, wet, grey weather was the worst, but I'd take that in a heartbeat right now.
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars (2020 Aug 30)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8682
Re: APOD: NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars (2020 Aug 30)
ps that's me trying to say "go easy on whoever made this image they did the best they could with what they had"
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:48 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars (2020 Aug 30)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8682
Re: APOD: NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars (2020 Aug 30)
fwiw there isn't complete coverage over the entire image with wideband filters to portray accurate star colors relative to one another from the top half to the bottom half. Only the narrowband data cover the whole image. this is just based on me looking at the footprints in the archive search result...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2020 August
- Replies: 141
- Views: 196565
Re: Submissions: 2020 August
happy with how this one turned out, posting to share with y'all:
NGC 2336 by Judy Schmidt, on Flickr
NGC 2336 by Judy Schmidt, on Flickr
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy... (2020 Aug 16)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13291
Re: APOD: NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy... (2020 Aug 16)
Thanks to Hubble and to geckzilla for processing this image. I don't think this image is geckzilla's. Her image on flickr of NGC 6814 doesn't really look like this. That's strange. Today's APOD image clearly gives an acknowledgement to Judy Schmidt (aka geckzilla) in the lower left corner, and so d...
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 3:22 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: A New Genre in Science Fiction "ENGINEERING FICTION"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4559
Re: A New Genre in Science Fiction "ENGINEERING FICTION"
I don't think it was a request to add a new forum section.
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:41 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans (2020 Aug 04)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11063
Re: APOD: NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans (2020 Aug 04)
Huh, this galaxy has a common name: The Meathook. Guess it's too evocative for APOD.
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:22 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars (2020 Jul 25)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9744
Re: APOD: Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars (2020 Jul 25)
I mean, yeah, your post wasn't political, Zuke. Discussing language is cool, and I wish we had a better relationship with China. Heck, my spouse is Chinese, if that tells you much. Anyway, carry on.
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:15 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars (2020 Jul 25)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9744
Re: APOD: Tianwen-1 Mission to Mars (2020 Jul 25)
Removed two posts discussing politics from the thread. Discussing politics in the forum is against the rules.
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Iron in the Butterfly Nebula (2020 Jul 21)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9731
Re: APOD: Iron in the Butterfly Nebula (2020 Jul 21)
Feared and revered, haha, good one, Bruce. Maybe reviled or at least mildly disliked. FWIW I took exception to "arachnologically" because I thought they were more separated than that, but I mean, the first line in Wikipedia says they're arachnids. Plus, I made a similar mistake a while ago...