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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Beautiful Trifid
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| 12 Aug, 2021
| Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby
Posted on 08/12/2021 4:02:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
08/12/2021 4:02:41 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list.
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posted on
08/12/2021 4:03:18 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Reminds me of the book DAY OF THE TRIFIDS and the movie.
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posted on
08/12/2021 4:08:03 PM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
(30 days! FB jail for mentioning a Monty Python script about tranneys, and the 1936 Olympics.)
To: MtnClimber
Ah yes, the famous nebula where Khan met his end and the hands of Captain Kirk. And there to the upper right is the Genesis planet, so named after the Ultimate Weapon that was secretly developed by the Federation and completely forgotten again by the next movie, never to me mentioned again.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I was about to post the very same thing. LOL :-)
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posted on
08/12/2021 4:35:30 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Heck, it was a fun movie anyway.
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posted on
08/12/2021 4:41:41 PM PDT
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Loud Mime
(A living and breathing Constitution empowers evil; living and breathing Commandments do was well. )
To: Loud Mime
Generally I don’t think Star Trek should have been adapted for the movies, but The Wrath of Khan was a nice improvement over the first one. I like the intro music.
To: MtnClimber
I captured the Trifid Nebula (M20) a few years back. This was the result of a series of 42 images at 35 second exposures each, then calibrated, combined and stacked into a single image.
42x35-ISO800
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posted on
08/12/2021 5:19:22 PM PDT
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
That is a beautiful photo, Dragnet. I always had Sky & Telescope photos taped to my bedroom walls and closet doors as a teen. Trifid, always one of my favorite.
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posted on
08/12/2021 5:32:54 PM PDT
by
F450-V10
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Oddly coincidentally, just watched it again today.( last time about 30 years ago)
Sea water kills triffids like the common cold kills martians. No fear of galactic invaders needed. Earth is just a deadly biosphere.
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posted on
08/12/2021 5:57:55 PM PDT
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Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: MtnClimber
Reminds me of the Rolling Stones album cover Sticky Fingers.
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posted on
08/12/2021 5:59:13 PM PDT
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Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be ta.ken that's for sure.)
To: F450-V10
Thanks! I surprised myself with this image. Looking back I should have gone much longer on it. I’ve been planning on revisiting this nebula and hopefully I’ll capture 20x more data which should improve it dramatically in post processing.
Btw, I did the same thing when I was young and really struggled at the time with the old film formats due to long tracking issues, not to mention not being able to afford film developing, enlargements, at the time. Digital opened a new world for me.
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posted on
08/12/2021 6:51:00 PM PDT
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Deaf Smith
“Rosebud, Rosebud.” Ask Orson Welles about that quote...
“Citizen Kane.”
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posted on
08/12/2021 7:11:58 PM PDT
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BatGuano
(Ya don't think that I would go into battle with change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: MtnClimber
Noā¦Uranusā¦Jokesā¦Thisā¦Timeā¦
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posted on
08/12/2021 9:14:44 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Which was the one with the whales?
I recall enjoying that.
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08/12/2021 9:18:19 PM PDT
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: johnthebaptistmoore
[Noā¦Uranusā¦Jokesā¦Thisā¦Timeā¦]
And it’s such an angry shade of pink, one wonders what its been up to.
It is sooo past my bedtime.
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posted on
08/12/2021 9:28:28 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
To: dragnet2
Astrophotography is something I never had the patience for.
Now that Iām retired, I have the patience, but canāt get out to a dark sky site.
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posted on
08/12/2021 9:43:10 PM PDT
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telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: dragnet2
Really nice shot. I remember seeing the Trifid from my parentās back yard.
I could actually make out the divisions caused by the dust lanes in my new 6ā telescope. It was 1979.
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posted on
08/12/2021 9:47:26 PM PDT
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telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
To: telescope115
I does take a lot of patience and the learning curve, at least for me, was pretty steep in regards to post processing of the data. Then it slowly became somewhat additive but I still have a lot to learn.
I now have a permanent set up, no need to polar align the scope, just flip some switches, open the dome and everything else can be remotely controlled, the cameras, the scope computer etc, from another computer inside the home. Setting up a scope on a tripod nightly and doing the polar alignment process was time consuming and excruciating and basically forced me to build a small observatory.
Btw, filters are available to help reduce all the artificial light scatter, but dark skies are hard to beat.
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posted on
08/12/2021 10:11:01 PM PDT
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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