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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Waterfalls, Auroras, Comet: Iceland
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| March 26, 2013
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Posted on 03/26/2013 2:31:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: If not distracted by the picturesque landscape, waterfalls, stars, and auroras, you might be able to find Comet PANSTARRS. The above image, capturing multiple terrestrial and celestial wonders in a single shot, was taken last week in southwest Iceland. The popular Gullfoss waterfalls are pictured under brilliant auroras that followed a M1-class solar flare and powerful Coronal Mass Ejection two days earlier. Give up on locating the comet? Comet PANSTARRS is faintly visible as a light blip just above the horizon toward the left of the above image. The comet remains more directly visible to northern observers with binoculars looking toward the western sky just after sunset.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; cometpannstars; iceland; science
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posted on
03/26/2013 2:31:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
03/26/2013 2:32:20 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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03/26/2013 2:33:14 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: SunkenCiv
So beautiful! I bet you just want to touch the sky. Thanks, Sunky!
To: SunkenCiv
Beautiful - makes me want to move back to Alaska.
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posted on
03/26/2013 2:56:42 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Joe McCarthy was right.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/26/2013 3:17:13 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
To: SunkenCiv
Green Northern Lights is appropriate for Ireland.
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posted on
03/26/2013 4:29:23 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(And winter is coming.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/26/2013 4:42:36 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
AAARGH!!!
To: Mike Darancette
To: bigheadfred
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03/26/2013 5:07:13 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
To: SunkenCiv
Great picture, one thing I would like to see in person.
Buddy who I worked with, worked in Alaska (North Slope), says no picture or video can do it justice when it's really active.
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03/26/2013 5:28:53 PM PDT
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The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
Great picture, one thing I would like to see in person.You are seeing the pic in person. Unless you aren't really you....or a person...
To: bigheadfred
You are seeing the pic in person. Unless you aren't really you....or a person... Ahem, I would like to visually witness the actual phenomena called the aurora borealis (Northern lights) occurring in person, rather than a photograph/video/painting or any other such facsimile image of the said phenomena.
There, feel better about things now?..........Just pleasantly asking.
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posted on
03/26/2013 6:00:34 PM PDT
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The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: Mike Darancette
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03/26/2013 6:33:19 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: The Cajun
that is a teehee on a teehee
I did get to see the Northern when I was a kid. And I have never forgotten it.
Funny. But when I see pics of them now I see them through the eyes of that kid. It is (was) that unforgettable, for me.
To: bigheadfred
My buddy on the North Slope said he would get vertigo sometimes if he looked straight up at it and felt like he was falling into the sky until he got used to it.
Said it would happen to lots of newbies up there.
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03/26/2013 7:15:20 PM PDT
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The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
I have a friend now living (working) in Canada who sends me pics of what he sees all the time.
I saw them here in southern Idaho when I was a kid. Never really understood then how that was possible.
To: The Cajun
I Now realize that it said Iceland not Ireland. Senior moment I guess.
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