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Earth Science Picture of the Day

Pulled up EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) a couple of minutes ago and unexpectedly found the NFO image of NGC1333 looking back at me.  It really is a stunning region of space and the eerie-looking dust clouds gives the image a really sinister appearance.  Thank you Jim for putting this one up today – I think it is one of our very best so far.

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Got today’s EPOD with a shadow self-portrait taken at mid-day near the winter solstice over the New Forest.  Thank you Jim for continuing to show my work :)

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Great news!  Noel & I managed to get today’s EPOD with a festive Christmas Tree cluster and cone nebula shot (EPOD have the picture upside down at the moment – but I’ve told Jim so it might turn up the right way later on today).  Thank you Jim for continuing to show our work to your huge audience :)

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Managed to get 4-hours of imaging on little NGC1333 in Perseus last night in sub-zero conditions.  I think there was some high lying mist/fog but hopefully the image turned out o.k.

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Managed to get today’s EPOD with a shot with a tiny little Canon IXUS camera – a view of central Athens from the Acropolis with Lykavittos hill as the main subject.

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We had a week of sub-zero temperatures at the beginning of 2009 which led to hoar-frost covered spider webs and grass as well as “crystalline copses” – trees glittering from the ice in the early morning winter sunshine.  It was also a very hard time for the forest animals and farmers brought out feed for the cattle for sevaeral weeks – the first time I had seen this done locally.

A picture of the frost covered spider webs made today’s EPOD :)

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It does look like an artificial grouping of stars to make up the number 37 – but the group of stars at the centre of this image are for real and clearly show the number 37, proving Douglas Adams although very close with 42 – was actually slightly out.  The 37 cluster is today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (APOD) – thank you Jim for a good choice of image on this April Fool’s Day.  The 37 cluster can be found residing in the constellation Orion.

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More good news!  Managed to get the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) image for 13th March 2009 – with a “real” Earth Science picture – not a deep-sky image :)   This time it was a crepuscular ray sunset over North Weirs (New Forest) in mid-winter.  We had a succession of spectacular sunsets for several consecutive days around this time – and then it all reverted back to normal.

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Good news yet again!!  We got yesterday’s Earth Science Picture of the Day [EPOD] with that amazing variable star lying right next to open cluster NGC7789 in Cassiopeia.  Thank you once again Jim for publishing our work :)

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Hey!  Looks like we got today’s EPOD with the deeeeeeeep Coathanger Cluster image :)   Thank you Jim at EPOD for publishing this one!

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Well the roll of good luck continues!  Today Noel & I managed to get the Belt + Horsehead image published on the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) website.  Thank you once again Jim :)

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