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02/20/2005 02:10:52 PM · #1 |
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02/20/2005 02:16:20 PM · #2 |
Is it the inside of an eye ball?
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02/20/2005 02:18:16 PM · #3 |
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02/20/2005 02:22:41 PM · #4 |
Wellington Boot?
Vacuum Cleaner?
Bee hive?
am I close.. |
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02/20/2005 02:26:53 PM · #5 |
| Whatever it is, its out of this world! |
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02/20/2005 02:28:58 PM · #6 |
Hey, when you look at it upside down you can see a silhouette of a guy reading a book.
And he has Popeye arms!
Message edited by author 2005-02-20 14:30:03.
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02/20/2005 02:31:41 PM · #7 |
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02/20/2005 02:37:00 PM · #8 |
| I think it's one of those jelly balls,or a bruised orange. |
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02/20/2005 02:53:02 PM · #9 |
It's the moon. Am I missing something here?
Robt.
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02/20/2005 03:02:22 PM · #10 |
Hey thats the moon. There's no doubt about it.
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02/20/2005 03:03:21 PM · #11 |
No Problem, the big one is the Moon.
About the other stuff, you are on your own. I don't have time to identify all those stars. ;-)
Ha ha, must have missed something in this shot also. |
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02/20/2005 03:07:07 PM · #12 |
| Just the moon. It was interesting to see how many non-moon answers would come. Pretty wild imagination we all have! :) |
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02/20/2005 03:07:55 PM · #13 |
It's a 70's disco ball after all the mirrors have fallen off.
Seriously - Great Shot of the moon.
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02/20/2005 03:17:33 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by 4score:
Just the moon. It was interesting to see how many non-moon answers would come. Pretty wild imagination we all have! :) |
How about how you done it?
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02/20/2005 03:32:56 PM · #15 |
Wow! Is that what the moon looks like, I've heard about it before...
So, where do you have to go to get a shot of it? Is it in a public place? Why is the background so dark??
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02/20/2005 04:41:04 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by 4score:
Just the moon. It was interesting to see how many non-moon answers would come. Pretty wild imagination we all have! :) |
you would be suprised how many people dont know the moon when they see it. I have had 2 people ask me "what is the name of that star?".
When I volunteer at the local observatory and set up my telescope for the general public to look through, on a night when the moon is up we get at lest 4 to 8 people who DONT beleive that is the moon they are looking at through the telescope, and I tell them to take a step back and look at where the telescope is pointing to, its pointing at that big bright object in the sky and that is the moon.
They usually feel pretty stupid for not knowing what the moon was or what it looked like. Age range is 5 to 75
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02/20/2005 06:20:11 PM · #17 |
LOL that's funny.
I looked at it, said "that's the moon!", then just to be sure googled every planet and every satellite in the solar system, thinking perhaps you'd snuck a wannabe-moon int here to catch us out.
In my first year in college I took an astronomy course to fulfill distribution requirements (I've always been an avid science-fiction guy, and my uncle was in charge of the Voyahger program) and that course totally hooked me on the heavens in general. Unfortunately, my wife got the 'scope...
Robt.
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02/20/2005 09:35:45 PM · #18 |
I can't claim credit for the shot. A friend sent it to me and asked me to identify it. I did the same thing, assuming it was every other planet and star rather than the obvious. It's from an angle rarely seen from the earth. It is a real photo without any touch-up and all of the little dots are stars...some larger than the moon!
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02/20/2005 09:54:09 PM · #19 |
I don't see one dot that is larger than the moon. Hehe
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02/20/2005 10:32:26 PM · #20 |
Sorry, 4score, but that's the same angle we always see of the moon- nothing rare about it. The little dots are either CCD noise (most likely) or added.The "stars" are too many and too even in size and spacing to be real. The odds of the full moon covering even a single naked eye star are something like 1 in 35, and even hubble deep fields wouldn't show a star field like that. There would be variations in luminosity and spacing between stars, and probably a few galaxies present. Even if such a background did exist, the light of the full moon would completely overwhelm dim background stars on such a long exposure.
P.S.- ALL stars are larger than the moon (at least in mass).
Message edited by author 2005-02-20 22:50:41. |
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02/20/2005 10:41:09 PM · #21 |
FWIW, this shows the distribution of bright stars around the moon. As you can see, there aren't many, and this shot required two separate exposures because the glare from even a fully eclipsed moon is too bright to capture dim stars around it. Note the variation in size among the stars that doesn't appear in your friend's photo.
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02/20/2005 10:42:00 PM · #22 |
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