sun halo pic's i took at the Negev desert

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sun halo pic's i took at the Negev desert

Post by amirber » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:14 pm

Hey, some pics i took yesterday of a sun halo in the Negev desert in Israel, i took them Beer Sheva and Arad (next to Metzada) while on my way to teach at kids astronomy class.

http://physics.bgu.ac.il/FreeWebSite/bernat/sun_halo/

I'd advise watching each image on a hole screen (not too large or small)...

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I work at the Ilan Ramon youth physics center

ilanramon.bgu.ac.il

Amir Bernat

*Thank you kind folks who advised me how to mack the pic's more user friendly :)
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Post by FieryIce » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:44 pm

Hi Amirber, a suggestion, please scale down the images for viewing in the forum but the sun halos full of colour are very fasinating.
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Post by BMAONE23 » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:27 pm

Firey,
Did you try the link?

http://physics.bgu.ac.il/FreeWebSite/bernat/sun_halo/

Those images rescale when they are loaded. NICE ONES TOO

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Post by FieryIce » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:58 am

BMAone23, I think it is a browser setting that loads a full image then resizes it smaller or click on it for a larger size.

But my comment still stands:
Hi Amirber, a suggestion, please scale down the images for viewing in the forum but the sun halos full of colour are very fasinating.
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Post by amirber » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:02 am

I'l have another go:

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So - what are my chances of getting to APOD?

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Post by FieryIce » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:29 pm

on my way to teach at kids astronomy class
Are those children Bar or Bat Mitzvah age?

Thanks for the resize, now work on file size to improve the load time of the thread, or not.
So - what are my chances of getting to APOD?
Your guess is as good as anyone elses. I have noticed they have an agenda in the posting of APOD pics, reminds me of the agenda of those agressive, angry distracter posters.
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Post by amirber » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:44 pm

FieryIce wrote:
on my way to teach at kids astronomy class
Are those children Bar or Bat Mitzvah age?

Thanks for the resize, now work on file size to improve the load time of the thread, or not.
Well, i work with kids as young as 7-8 year old and up to "kids" who enjoy their retirment :) those I was on way to are on the young side ~10.

Can you sugest a good program for resizing and compressing? I used the windows painter to comprees and irfanview to resize - but both won't work on file batches.

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Post by craterchains » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:00 am

For a good free program you should try PSP / SE (Paint Shop Pro SE) search for it on the web and you will find several places it is available from. It is built by Jasc Software.

It would be kind of you to delete these overly large images of solar displays from this thread.

You may want to submit them to EPOD instead of APOD. (Earth Sciences Picture of the Day) http://epod.usra.edu/
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Post by iamlucky13 » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:19 pm

I kind of like this one, or the one below it with the tree:

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A relevant APOD could explain sun halos as well as talk about ocluders, including the "built-in" kind.
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Post by BMAONE23 » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:14 pm

If you took that one and inserted a head instead of a hand, it would resemble one of those paintings with halos around the subjects head

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