Astronomy Picture of the Day

[Omegafanman]

Does anyone else check out APOD every day. Some amazing pictures, great information and helps keep life/earth in perspective...…

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

 

[Waxtactic]

This is right up my alley. Thank you.

 

[chronorobs]

Nice photospread you got there.

 

[Mac5]

Omegafanman

Does anyone else check out APOD every day. Some amazing pictures, great information and helps keep life/earth in perspective...…

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

YES!!! And I love it! I teach high school astronomy and I have an APOD picture of the day to start the class. The kids enjoy it. Thanks for sharing a great post!!!👍

 

[Omegafanman]

Mac5

YES!!! And I love it! I teach high school astronomy and I have an APOD picture of the day to start the class. The kids enjoy it. Thanks for sharing a great post!!!👍

Thanks - great job you have. They might appreciate my 'Black hole' hommage :0)

https://omegaforums.net/threads/at-long-last-a-glimpse-of-a-black-hole.93149/

 

[oly2b]

Omegafanman

Does anyone else check out APOD every day. Some amazing pictures, great information and helps keep life/earth in perspective...…

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

I have it installed on all my PC's but now it only works with my work's PC and they are going to stop us having a personalized desktop soon

 

[Omegafanman]

oly2b

I have it installed on all my PC's but now it only works with my work's PC and they are going to stop us having a personalized desktop soon

It is just a webpage with an archive and jpeg files so it should display on most OS / browsers plus it works on ipads etc. I would clear your history on any PC / browser and try again.

 

[stuart70]

I have had a telescope for a couple months now, so far I have only looked at the moon, Jupiter and Saturn. I still find incredible, next to try and tackle is being able to take pictures of what I see. I am using a Bresser 80mm 900.

 

[thevespabandit]

My lovely partner bought me this for my birthday a few days ago- she was able to get the 1/10 print of this..

Some truly spectacular photos https://www.theguardian.com/science...rapher-of-the-year-2019-shortlist-in-pictures

 

[Deltatango]

thevespabandit

My lovely partner bought me this for my birthday a few days ago- she was able to get the 1/10 print of this..

Some truly spectacular photos https://www.theguardian.com/science...rapher-of-the-year-2019-shortlist-in-pictures

That’s absolutely stunning. Really makes you think of just how small we are in the universe

 

[tpatta]

S stuart70

I have had a telescope for a couple months now, so far I have only looked at the moon, Jupiter and Saturn. I still find incredible, next to try and tackle is being able to take pictures of what I see. I am using a Bresser 80mm 900.

Make sure you use a proper solar filter and enjoy the beauty of our sun.........

 

[Omegafanman]

Better than a picture…. A chance to watch the large near earth asteroid DZ2 pass close by us and the moon (hopefully pass by ;0)
Tonight (UK time) live……….

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https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/

 

[AlexD]

Very nice thread.. i am new to the forum and i already discover many interesting things. Please forgive my bad english but it's not my native language.

 

[tpatta]

I may have posted this in the past but thought it worth sharing again. Comet Hale-Bopp from my observatory in Southern California. many years ago.

 

[Timecollector]

 

[pdxleaf]

 

[Omegafanman]

I thought these were cool..... the Earth (and Moon) from Mars... Maybe one day not taken by a robot...
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[pdxleaf]

One more super moon..

 

[Walrus]

Cool stuff. I’ll try to keep the mention of religion brief as I don’t want to start a problem but I was reading a book by pope Benedict where he wrote to say we are the only planet with life in the universe is putting a limit on gods creative ability which we as humans can’t comprehend.

He then went on to say if we are the only beings in this vast universe think of how precious life is and how we will kill one another over a dollar.

Pictures like this remind me how massive “space” is and imo there must be other life out there but darn if there isn’t we (many of us) don’t have a lot of respect for it.

Ok sorry not trying to start a religious thing I just read a lot and that always stuck with me it’s purely an example and not meant to offend those offended by religion.

 

[pdxleaf]

Walrus

Cool stuff. I’ll try to keep the mention of religion brief as I don’t want to start a problem but I was reading a book by pope Benedict where he wrote to say we are the only planet with life in the universe is putting a limit on gods creative ability which we as humans can’t comprehend..

Deep thoughts from the pope.

Walrus

Pictures like this remind me how massive “space” is and imo there must be other life out there but darn if there isn’t we (many of us) don’t have a lot of respect for it..

Pictures from robots