i have no avatar wrote:2020 April 11: Venus and the Pleiades in April
Honestly, that picture sucks. If my equipment returned images with those spikes I’d be looking for better gear.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
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by theropod_V_2.0 » Apr 11, 2020 3:48 pm
Honestly, that picture sucks. If my equipment returned images with those spikes I’d be looking for better gear.
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4762 by newolder » Apr 11, 2020 5:38 pm
A 3-minute tube about what's going on with comet ATLAS from SETI
Image from Matthijs Burgmeijer via @twitter
Image from Matthijs Burgmeijer via @twitter
I just stacked about an hour worth of data on #Comet #Atlas and the "new" condensation in readily visible! What is happening there? ...
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4763 by i have no avatar » Apr 12, 2020 4:23 am
2020 April 12: The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
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#4764 by i have no avatar » Apr 13, 2020 4:32 am
2020 April 13: A Sailing Stone across Death Valley
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#4765 by i have no avatar » Apr 14, 2020 4:14 am
2020 April 14 - NGC 253: The Silver Coin Galaxy
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4766 by newolder » Apr 14, 2020 7:06 am
More recent images of the crumbling comet here.
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4767 by theropod_V_2.0 » Apr 14, 2020 11:45 am
Damn it, I had hoped for a once in a lifetime, sky filling, brilliant, daytime visible splendor.
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4768 by newolder » Apr 14, 2020 12:54 pm
Yep, another fizzler fading fast to fuck-all.
Looks a bit like your avatar.
Take care.
Looks a bit like your avatar.
Take care.
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4769 by theropod_V_2.0 » Apr 14, 2020 5:23 pm
That’s a picture of what fog looks like in space, and does look a little like a theropod, but has more of a sauropod neck.
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4770 by i have no avatar » Apr 15, 2020 4:12 am
2020 April 15: A Cosmic Triangle
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4771 by theropod_V_2.0 » Apr 15, 2020 9:45 am
Venus has been putting on a show for a couple weeks now, and is almost too bright to view comfortably through a scope at even modest magnification. That’s based on the ONE clear night we’ve had in the past 3 weeks. Sigh.
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4772 by newolder » Apr 15, 2020 10:50 am
Here we go again (full story + imagery @ today's spaceweather.com)
INTRODUCING COMET SWAN: Warning: This story may give you a sense of déjà vu. A new comet has been discovered, and in late May it will pass by the sun near the orbit of Mercury. No, it's not Comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4), which is currently falling apart on a similar trajectory. Instead, this is Comet SWAN ...
... However, Battams, who correctly predicted the demise of Comet ATLAS, is not so sure (about the proposed brightening).
"I doubt that the comet will maintain its current impressive appearance, and will quite possibly fade away soon," he says. "But we've only been viewing it for a couple of days, so no one knows."
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4773 by i have no avatar » Apr 16, 2020 4:14 am
2020 April 16: Comet ATLAS Breaks Up
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#4774 by theropod_V_2.0 » Apr 16, 2020 2:04 pm
Sigh.
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#4775 by i have no avatar » Apr 17, 2020 4:16 am
2020 April 17: The Windmill and the Star Trails
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#4776 by i have no avatar » Apr 18, 2020 4:09 am
2020 April 18: Just Another Day on Aerosol Earth
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#4777 by i have no avatar » Apr 19, 2020 4:14 am
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4778 by newolder » Apr 19, 2020 6:55 pm
Comet SWAN has reached mag. +7.5...
via spaceweather.com:
via spaceweather.com:
Newly-discovered Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) is shaping up to be a beauty. It looks great through small telescopes now, and could become visible to the naked eye next month. Gerald Rhemann sends this picture taken yesterday froom Farm Tivoli, Namibia...
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4779 by i have no avatar » Apr 20, 2020 4:19 am
2020 April 20 - IC 2944: The Running Chicken Nebula
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Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day
#4780 by newolder » Apr 20, 2020 4:09 pm
The Hubble Space Telescope caught an image of the ongoing break up of comet ATLAS
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