Posted on May 16, 2020
APOD: 2020 May 16 - The Dark River to Antares
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "The Dark River to Antares." The works of Paul Schmitt have been featured on previous APODs, and the end result here is no less stunning. I've long been familiar with Antares and the constellation Scorpius, but certainly not like this. Time to put a scope on this myself. The image was captured January 31st this year in the Apache National Wildlife Preserve, New Mexico.
APOD: 2020 May 16 - The Dark River to Antares
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Beyond Antares - Nichelle Nichols (Spock/Uhura)
Song starts at 1:07 Not an amazing recording, but I have a fondness for this song so I made a longer version of it. Scenes are from the 2009 movie and TOS S0...
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Saturday, May 16, 2020 entitled "The Dark River to Antares."
A beautiful image of a segment of God's creation in the heavens.
Image: The Dark River to Antares - Composite Image Credit & Copyright - Paul Schmit
APOD background "Explanation: A dark river seems to flow through this sky from the horizon toward colorful clouds near red giant star Antares. Murky looking, the dark river is a dusty nebula obscuring background starlight near the central Milky Way, although the dark dust nebula contains mostly hydrogen molecular gas. Dust scattering starlight around Antares, alpha star of Scorpius, creates the unusual yellow-hued reflection nebula. Above it, bright blue double star Rho Ophiuchi is embedded in more typical dusty bluish reflection nebulae, with red emission nebulae also scattered through the interstellar space. Globular star cluster M4 looks almost like a bright star just above and right of Antares, though it lies far behind the colorful clouds, at a distance of some 7,000 light-years. The dark river itself is about 500 light years away. To create the startling night sky view, all background and foreground exposures were made back to back with the same camera and telephoto lens on the same night from the same location. In combination they produce a stunning image that reveals a range of brightness and color that your eye can't quite perceive. Recorded in the early hours of January 31, the composite also captures Mars still near the eastern horizon and rising to join rival Antares on the celestial stage. Bright Mars and its watery reflection are left of a lonely tree in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, planet Earth."
Beyond Antares - Nichelle Nichols (Spock/Uhura)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0b5E_-2uNs
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Col Carl Whicker SGT Steve McFarland TSgt Joe C. SGT (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan CPT Paul Whitmer SSG Michael Noll SSG William Jones Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SSG Franklin Briant SPC Margaret Higgins Sgt Jackie Julius Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown 1SG Steven Imerman 1SG Joseph Dartey MSgt David Hoffman MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi
A beautiful image of a segment of God's creation in the heavens.
Image: The Dark River to Antares - Composite Image Credit & Copyright - Paul Schmit
APOD background "Explanation: A dark river seems to flow through this sky from the horizon toward colorful clouds near red giant star Antares. Murky looking, the dark river is a dusty nebula obscuring background starlight near the central Milky Way, although the dark dust nebula contains mostly hydrogen molecular gas. Dust scattering starlight around Antares, alpha star of Scorpius, creates the unusual yellow-hued reflection nebula. Above it, bright blue double star Rho Ophiuchi is embedded in more typical dusty bluish reflection nebulae, with red emission nebulae also scattered through the interstellar space. Globular star cluster M4 looks almost like a bright star just above and right of Antares, though it lies far behind the colorful clouds, at a distance of some 7,000 light-years. The dark river itself is about 500 light years away. To create the startling night sky view, all background and foreground exposures were made back to back with the same camera and telephoto lens on the same night from the same location. In combination they produce a stunning image that reveals a range of brightness and color that your eye can't quite perceive. Recorded in the early hours of January 31, the composite also captures Mars still near the eastern horizon and rising to join rival Antares on the celestial stage. Bright Mars and its watery reflection are left of a lonely tree in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, planet Earth."
Beyond Antares - Nichelle Nichols (Spock/Uhura)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0b5E_-2uNs
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Col Carl Whicker SGT Steve McFarland TSgt Joe C. SGT (Join to see) Maj Marty Hogan CPT Paul Whitmer SSG Michael Noll SSG William Jones Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SSG Franklin Briant SPC Margaret Higgins Sgt Jackie Julius Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown 1SG Steven Imerman 1SG Joseph Dartey MSgt David Hoffman MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi
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