Astronomy Picture

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Near its northernmost declination, tonight's Full Moon will be a special one, arcing high in northern hemisphere skies. But a Full Moon won't occur on this calendar date for another 19 years, a period known as the lunar Metonic cycle. September 15th's lunar phase and date were notable too, marking the return of a gibbous Moon rising over the High Sierra mountains. That scene was captured in Ansel Adams' famous photograph Autumn Moon from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park. Earlier this year, Texas State University physicists Donald Olson, Russell Doescher and students were able to pinpoint the location and (formerly uncertain) date the original Ansel Adams photo was taken - September 15, 1948. Accordingly, their astronomical detective work predicted that the lunar alignment and waxing gibbous phase would be repeated on Thursday, September 15, 2005, exactly three 19-year Metonic cycles later. On that day, about 300 photographers gathered at Glacier Point to record Ansel Adams' Autumn Moon encore.
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“Cool!”

“Tango, Are we allowed to ignore this?
Image Credit & Copyright: Russell Doescher (Texas State University)
Because of this I bypassed posting the picture. But, when I previously asked here on TT, I was told that some copying was OK.

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Thanks for the reminder. I went outside to look. Venus is bright in the west and the full moon is looking good in the east. And, while facing south between the two, I believe Mars is at about 11. Thanks again.
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“I figure they allowed me to do it, I mean copy and post the pic. I have about a thousand of those pics as my screen savers. Yeah, the full moon is beautiful I watched it rise. Mother Nature is too cool for words sometimes.”

“I'm watching the moon come up but it will be awhile before it's dark enough and in full view. Then I can spy out a couple
other planets. Nowslimmer go to www.stardate.org for info.
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“Chappy - Thanks.

Tango - The Astronomy Picture of the Day has been my home page for several years. I do enjoy it along with many of the articles including following their links. If a person is not careful, he could learn something on the Internet.

Venus has set or passed behind clouds. The moon is doing great. And, if I correctly found Mars, it is almost overhead E-W and about 1 hour south.
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“I like the KStars desktop planetarium that is included with the KDE Desktop Environment. I've found it a useful tool to find out what's visible and where to look for it.”

“nowslimmer, I've visited that site daily for at least 2 years now. I've used many pics featured there as my desktop background images over that time. Very cool site.”

“OMG! How often do you see that?”

“never, in florida at least, too much steam
wow, that's pretty.”

“woah! active volcano in Alaska?”

“WAAAAAAY kewl, Tango!”

“That was taken in Iceland. This guy has some amazing stuff.”

“thanks Hobbit. His site is WOW!!”

“Cassini Saturn images:

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230&flash=1”

“Sweet!”

“Thanks.”

“Lots of wallpaper material here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/viewall/”

“http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Beautiful but too big to post here.
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“Yowza ----- and if you click on it you get a version that looks to be 4 times as wide as this 19-inch screen....”

“okay...... 3 1/2.”

“Yep, I screwed the whole thread until I edited and posted the link.”

“Go ahead on with your Bad Self!   Why the hell not?   I just watched a bunch of otherwise sane people waste three days and six pages full of posts on a damn magazine site troll,     LMAO”

“WTF, tilt. You think any of us have anything else better to do? LOL.”

“Oh hell yeah!   ROF

I just think there's already enough pissed-off people and crap in general without someone coming in to generate More.   That's all.

How big is that Cat's Paw.... ?

Hmmm.... 4038 x 3976....

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“That cat's paw is the cat's meow.”

“I found a slightly different version of that pic a while back.... but to get the whole thing on the screen I need a 25-inch monitor!



http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=37479

(watch out for that beeeg one – 3.48 MB, 3000x2000)”

“I'm not clicking that. For all I know it's a picture of the rings on Uranus.”

“ya never know ---- could be the crack of Dawn”

“Very nice Tilt.

Lz, I am fearless, I clicked Tilt's 2nd link!”

“The key to employing The Violin Link from Hell to the greatest effect is to deploy it most sparingly.... like once every 3 or 4 years. Then keep your fingers crossed that the first half dozen victims keep their mouths shut,   LMAO

Then there's this.

Or this.”

“Ha ha Tilt!!! Not pushing my luck!”

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NO TRIPOD, taken with my new Canon SX110”

“Is that the left cheek or the right cheek?”

“Which do YOU think it is?”

“Well, it is certainly not a black hole.”

“It's the rabbit with the John Lennon glasses.”

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The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a snapshot of a picturesque planetary nebula tucked away in a distant cluster of stars within the Milky Way Galaxy.

NGC 2818 is one of very few planetary nebulae in our galaxy located within an open cluster, in this case cluster NGC 2818A. Open clusters, in general, are loosely bound and they disperse over hundreds of millions of years. Stars that form planetary nebulae typically live for billions of years. Hence, it is rare that an open cluster survives long enough for one of its members to form a planetary nebula. This open cluster is particularly ancient, estimated to be nearly one billion years old.”

“Yowza ---- !

You can find all kinds of craziness at the APOD site by doing a search on the words 'planetary' or 'nebula'. It's like a gold mine.”

“I have done. Lots of screen savers for me!”

“And the links go on forever.... < G >”

“Just want to say thanks for the inspiration. I remember the first time I looked in a telescope--similar to the wonder of the first time looking in a microscope. Or the first time being on a mountaintop. Puts things in perspective.”

“I am such a geek, I love most things science. You put that very well.

I am considering going back to school and majoring in astronomy when I retire.”

“I've been using AOPD in my class - current unit is astronomy. Awesome site, and its a service of my alma matter. :))


There was a really neat video on Dec. 31st about the movemnet in the sky. Go watch it.”

“Hey -

Robert Nemiroff who does the AOPD is a professor at Michigan Tech (my alma matter). You can download his lectures free on iTunes (I don't have the link - I'll post it when I find it!). I knew about this, but was reminded by the newest issue of my alum magazine.

I didn't have astronomy class at Tech, I had it in the City of Detroit, where the city lights block out any chance of seeing stars.”