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October 27th, 2005, 04:15 AM
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OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Here's a great website for those of you who haven't already seen it and have an interest in space exploration in general and astronomy in particular. This Picture (Link) in particular is just awesome I think.
The address to find the current picture of the day is:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Enjoy the beautiful pictures!
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October 27th, 2005, 10:16 AM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Cool picture. I've been to that site a few times, but can never remember to check it on my own. They have some realy good ones there.
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October 27th, 2005, 01:56 PM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
I use APOD on a regular basis. My wallpapers, a lot of my nebula pics for SEIV, all come from downloads from it.
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October 27th, 2005, 03:29 PM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
A lot of the system images in FQM originally came from there, collected by Woundwart. 
Speaking of which... any spectacular new images that need including? Make sure to check the new 2.10, as a lot of images that I did not care for were replaced or removed. There are several open slots in the nebulas that are currently using duplicate image calls and can easily be replaced. |
October 27th, 2005, 04:08 PM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Fy, I'll take a look at 2.1 this evening and get back to you.
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October 28th, 2005, 01:51 PM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
I have that bookmarked, but I also keep forgetting to look at it.
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October 29th, 2005, 12:42 PM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Ditto. The internet is just too damn big, and I have a veritable plethora of interests. I surf like a schizophrenic butterfly.
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October 29th, 2005, 03:55 PM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
lol
/me hands Turin a trophy - One of the good ones.
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November 1st, 2005, 03:30 AM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Are those dark parallel bands on the upper part of Saturn the cloud patterns of Saturn or are they shadows of the rings? The angle of those bands seem kind of unusual?
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November 1st, 2005, 11:24 AM
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Re: OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
They are shadows from the rings according to the caption.
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