[petuniasevan]

WALLPAPER TIME!!!

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[petuniasevan]

APOD PING!

WALLPAPER OF THE DAY!

[RightWhale]

This shot appears to have taken some serious planning.

[altair]

Wow!

[petuniasevan]

BTW, that pic was taken in San Diego, CA.

[WSGilcrest]

Please include me on your ping list. Thankyou.

[2Trievers]

All APODites are invited to the Belvedere Room today to enjoy Coteblanche's thematic homage to the eclipse today.

And if so inclined, to experiment with some homespun verse themselves. I'll post the link as soon as the beautiful lounge opens.

My feeble attempt:

Sky Views

It's the apparent magnitude
that catches your eye first.
As if there is an astrochemistry
taking place. You are dust.
He a gas.

You become an accretion
at the sound of his voice.
At times unable to utter
a single sound in reply.

The apparent magnitude of this
blinding gift from the chaos
keeps you coming back for more.
He a corona. You the eclipse.
Binary systems lost in the universe.

(-;l*&;-)

[BlessedAmerican]

These pictures bless me daily. Thank you for your time in posting them. I sent this to many friends today and it will bring a sense of awe to them as well.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Okay...Here goes nothing!

While Waiting for the Big Bang News...An Eclipse!

Dedicated with love to 2Trievers for being a stellar nursery in human form at the moment.

Moon's chords and arcs will occlude rays of straightest perfection from Sol, today...
The penultimate geometric armaggedon between circle and line, bending the eye
away from the REAL TRUTH, unbearable to look upon unprotected.....
It is the understanding that Space is so huge, that man's time of science has stretched such a few
short inches across the miles-long line of time arrowing from the heart of the First Circle.

That First Circle's mathematical point, in protonuclear birth agony, threw out ballistic streams
of atomic debris*. This fertile dark matter, became our planet Earth, formed of Star stuff,
wrapped in warped space, providing the Universe a second point of view located HERE and NOW,
You and I, intersecting the infinite, one-way line of time... our very own platform from which
ephemeral humans can extend their sight, FINALLY to look backward....down millenial years and miles
along the timeline, listening, watching, and searching, waiting for the big NEWS
of how elegantly,
GOD ARRANGED that
MANKIND would come to BE, so long ago, in order
TO REACH US AT LAST!

*(and the expanding, accelerating, insubstantial, space which enfolds and interpenetrates it)
* serves as a footnote...we'll call it a poetic wormhole, since I don't have an editor yet this morning to contradict me|;-D

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[altair]

It's cloudy and rainy this morning! The sun is hidden by thick clouds. I'm going to miss it.

[~EagleNebula~]

"OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD" and the photographer that caught that moment has exquisite taste! Wallpaper? UH HUH!!