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Noctilucent Clouds and Comet NEOWISE (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
APOD.NASA ^
| 9 Jul, 2020
| Emmanuel Paoly/NASA
Posted on 07/09/2020 8:25:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: These silvery blue waves washing over a tree-lined horizon in the eastern French Alps are noctilucent clouds. From high in planet Earth's mesosphere, they reflect sunlight in this predawn skyscape taken on July 8. This summer, the night-shining clouds are not new to the northern high-latitudes. Comet NEOWISE is though. Also known as C/2020 F3, the comet was discovered in March by the Earth-orbiting Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) satellite. It's now emerging in morning twilight only just visible to the unaided eye from a clear location above the northeastern horizon.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; nasa; neowise; science
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
07/09/2020 8:25:51 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber; little jeremiah
Don’t miss thia awesome scene
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posted on
07/09/2020 8:31:45 PM PDT
by
thinden
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
07/09/2020 9:07:26 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
07/09/2020 9:19:49 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(WWG1WGA)
To: BenLurkin
Awesome! As though seen in the middle ages.
Never saw anything like that before for real.
Signs, wheels in the sky, tumult. Something happening here.
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posted on
07/09/2020 9:26:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MtnClimber; All
“...Thy pow’r throughout the Universe displayed...
What an astounding picture...!
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posted on
07/09/2020 9:40:35 PM PDT
by
mozarky2
(Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
07/09/2020 9:47:40 PM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
To: MtnClimber
It's now emerging in morning twilight only just visible to the unaided eye from a clear location above the northeastern horizon. Great picture, but that gets my vote for "most poorly constructed sentence of the day".
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posted on
07/10/2020 4:43:02 AM PDT
by
Paul R.
(The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/10/2020 8:00:25 AM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
07/10/2020 11:16:42 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: MtnClimber
I went outside about 3:30 a.m. with binoculars but couldn't find the comet--I guess it was too early. The moon was too bright anyway (almost third quarter) so probably no stars below 2nd magnitude, or maybe 3rd magnitude, were visible. Not sure if I would have been able to see the comet if it was above the horizon. Jupiter and Saturn were easy to spot in the south.
Hope that when it is in the evening sky later this month it hasn't gotten too faint to see.
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