I’m finding some of the recent apod images to be interesting.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220217.html

A pretty nebula in Chameleon

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220215.html

Compare these two images of the Moon. The one below is a typical full moon. The one above is a mosaic built from 29 strips near the terminator. Zoom into the one above at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/TerminatorMoon_Shet_3117.jpg Near the terminator, the sideways light highlights the roughness of the terrain. Both images from the LRO spacecraft.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220213.html

Earth at night from the Suomi spacecraft.
See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg for the full glorious world image.
In NW of Western Australia, are those mines, cattle stations or bushfires?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220211.html

What’s different about this standard spiral galaxy image? The number of foreground stars. This nearby galaxy is hidden behind the plane of the Milky Way. In Camelopardalis. This galaxy is not visible at all in visible light, only in infrared.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220210.html

This is that famous young star T Tauri. Both the star and the nebula have variable brightness.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220209.html

Eta Carina rotating, as seen in different wavelengths.

https://youtu.be/NS71ppsk7n0

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220207.html

Is this a galaxy or a local nebula? It’s a galaxy called the Umbrella Galaxy. The umbrella comes from a minor galaxy that was torn apart during the interaction.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220205.html

Is this a star? Yes. It’s the star R Aquarii. This variable star is an interacting binary.

Here’s that moon up the right way for down under.

Bubblecar said:

Here’s that moon up the right way for down under.

Then what’s the right way up for down under on the lower Moon image? The orientation of the two images I posted is out by about 80 degrees.

mollwollfumble said:

Bubblecar said:

Here’s that moon up the right way for down under.

Then what’s the right way up for down under on the lower Moon image? The orientation of the two images I posted is out by about 80 degrees.

Bear in mind they’re spacecraft images that don’t match any exact Earth view.

But in our southern view Tycho is up top and Plato at bottom, making a much more pleasing composition than the northern travesty.

Bubblecar said:

mollwollfumble said:

Bubblecar said:

Here’s that moon up the right way for down under.

Then what’s the right way up for down under on the lower Moon image? The orientation of the two images I posted is out by about 80 degrees.

Bear in mind they’re spacecraft images that don’t match any exact Earth view.

But in our southern view Tycho is up top and Plato at bottom, making a much more pleasing composition than the northern travesty.

Yes you can see the bunny

mollwollfumble said:

I’m finding some of the recent apod images to be interesting.

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Earth at night from the Suomi spacecraft.
See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg for the full glorious world image.
In NW of Western Australia, are those mines, cattle stations or bushfires?

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Iron ore mines: Hamersley region.

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m finding some of the recent apod images to be interesting.

…snip…

Earth at night from the Suomi spacecraft.
See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg for the full glorious world image.
In NW of Western Australia, are those mines, cattle stations or bushfires?

…snip

Iron ore mines: Hamersley region.

what happened to Tasmania?

Arts said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m finding some of the recent apod images to be interesting.

…snip…

Earth at night from the Suomi spacecraft.
See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg for the full glorious world image.
In NW of Western Australia, are those mines, cattle stations or bushfires?

…snip

Iron ore mines: Hamersley region.

what happened to Tasmania?

NFI

Arts said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m finding some of the recent apod images to be interesting.

…snip…

Earth at night from the Suomi spacecraft.
See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg for the full glorious world image.
In NW of Western Australia, are those mines, cattle stations or bushfires?

…snip

Iron ore mines: Hamersley region.

what happened to Tasmania?

There’s a Commonwealth games coming up.

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Iron ore mines: Hamersley region.

what happened to Tasmania?

There’s a Commonwealth games coming up.

For those who don’t get it… The last time Tasmania disappeared off the map was when?

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

what happened to Tasmania?

There’s a Commonwealth games coming up.

For those who don’t get it… The last time Tasmania disappeared off the map was when?

Does Google search.

I know.

In 2000.

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

There’s a Commonwealth games coming up.

For those who don’t get it… The last time Tasmania disappeared off the map was when?

Does Google search.

I know.

In 2000.

That was the Olympic Games… but the questions was rhetorical.

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

For those who don’t get it… The last time Tasmania disappeared off the map was when?

Does Google search.

I know.

In 2000.

That was the Olympic Games… but the questions was rhetorical.

No it was the 1982 Commonwealth games at Brisbane.

After that you could buy Tshirts in Tasmania with Australia upside down and Tassie on top.

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

There’s a Commonwealth games coming up.

For those who don’t get it… The last time Tasmania disappeared off the map was when?

Does Google search.

I know.

In 2000.

Didn’t know about that one. Maybe I should have said the first time?

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Does Google search.

I know.

In 2000.

That was the Olympic Games… but the questions was rhetorical.

No it was the 1982 Commonwealth games at Brisbane.

After that you could buy Tshirts in Tasmania with Australia upside down and Tassie on top.

dude, follow the thread.. :P

Arts said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m finding some of the recent apod images to be interesting.

…snip…

Earth at night from the Suomi spacecraft.
See https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg for the full glorious world image.
In NW of Western Australia, are those mines, cattle stations or bushfires?

…snip

Iron ore mines: Hamersley region.

what happened to Tasmania?

All 30 of them? Or perhaps the brightest 20? I had no idea there were that many iron ore mines there.

For Tasmania, I couldn’t fit it in here at full scale. Have some other parts of the world from https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg

Tasmania & NZ

Malaysia & Indonesia

Surprising how dark North Korea is.

India and west.

Why is the Nile so brightly lit?

The next image is centred on Moscow

Surprising how bright Puerta Rico is

South America

I can see the Comoros here

mollwollfumble said:

Why is the Nile so brightly lit?

‘Cos adjacent to the river is where most Egyptians live…

mollwollfumble said:

For Tasmania, I couldn’t fit it in here at full scale. Have some other parts of the world from https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/EarthAtNight2016_SuomiNPP_13500.jpg

Tasmania & NZ

I must have gone to bed early for a change.

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

Why is the Nile so brightly lit?

‘Cos adjacent to the river is where most Egyptians live…

Having flown over Egypt many times, I can confirm that. Almost the entire country shows no sign of habitation at night, but a brilliant ribbon of light snakes along both sides of the Nile. I remember one night, looking out of each of the side windows I could see nearly a thousand kilometres of lights in total.
Just spectacular.

Spiny Norman said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

Why is the Nile so brightly lit?

‘Cos adjacent to the river is where most Egyptians live…

Having flown over Egypt many times, I can confirm that. Almost the entire country shows no sign of habitation at night, but a brilliant ribbon of light snakes along both sides of the Nile. I remember one night, looking out of each of the side windows I could see nearly a thousand kilometres of lights in total.
Just spectacular.

Another odd one is the fence between Pakistan and India – Another thousand kilometres or so of lights in a line between the countries.

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

Why is the Nile so brightly lit?

‘Cos adjacent to the river is where most Egyptians live…

Give that man a cigar.

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The bright patch in the image above is the Johannesburg area of South Africa.

Let’s zoom in a bit on that. In the left image below the brightest patch is the Johannesburg conurbation, with Maputo middle right and Durban lower right.

There are a lot more centres of light in South Africa than cities in the map on right. About 500 distinct light sources as against 100 cities/towns mentioned on the map. Which is interesting.

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The bright patch in the image above is the Johannesburg area of South Africa.

Let’s zoom in a bit on that. In the left image below the brightest patch is the Johannesburg conurbation, with Maputo middle right and Durban lower right.

There are a lot more centres of light in South Africa than cities in the map on right. About 500 distinct light sources as against 100 cities/towns mentioned on the map. Which is interesting.

Have to get onto Google maps at higher res to have a hope of identifying most sources of light.

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

Why is the Nile so brightly lit?

‘Cos adjacent to the river is where most Egyptians live…

Looks like you’re right.

A weird conurbation, so long and narrow. I would have expected those adjacent to the Nile to be farmers.
But apparently not, not unless they all light their fields at night to enhance crop growth.

So Egypt has a much bigger conurbation even than the New York conurbation, which stretches from Springfield Massachewsits to Washington DC.
The Egyptian conurbation stretches all the way upriver to the Aswan Dam.

A City is characterised by beads connected by thin threads. Not visible on the Suomo image, but visible from the ISS, see below.