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Iridescent Clouds over Thamserku [^]
See? You don't always need to be peering through a telescope to spot something beautiful...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Cool indeed!
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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APOD wrote: Many clouds start with uniform regions that could show iridescence but quickly become too thick, too mixed, or too far from the Sun to exhibit striking colors.
Hmmm: "quickly become...too far from the Sun" ???
93 million miles (150 million kilometers) +/- a couple thousand feet...
Yeah, that makes all the difference. 
I'm guessing this probably should be: "too far from the observer"
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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LOL: well observed. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I believe they're talking about angular separation. Among other things the description implies that the sunlight has to be passing through at exactly the right angle. That's a factor of the angular separation between them as measured by the observer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quite possibly.
In that case, they should explain it correctly!
After all: "...along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer." (emphasis mine)
So instead of "too far from the Sun" how about "no longer aligned between the Sun and the observer to be visible"?
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Because a professional astronomer writing for the general public shouldn't be a tiresome pedant?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I know this is some kind of spam. I get an email for an opening of a mail delivery guy. Now, the name used is definitely picked from facebook. I do not have a middle however on FB, I used one. Among all this strangeness, on selecting blank space below email, I saw gibberish like this:
Fun Takes Flight at New Sky Zone in Pinebrook. Can we all agree that airlines should stop tweeting about the World Cup?. Pistons signing Aaron Gray to multi-year deal. Colombia takes out coca lab. How Ted Cruz Could Turn Texas Blue. Cruz sues Vineland to be reinstated as police detective. F1: Lotus gets Mercedes engine deal. DST Health Solutions Appoints Healthcare Industry Veteran To Lead New Era Of . Lotus F1 team agrees deal for Mercedes engines from 2015. Lone Passenger Pigeon Escapes Pie Pan, Lands In Smithsonian. Bengal Student Hacked To Death: Family Demands CBI Probe. ERP Document Control Software offers version management.. 12th Annual Spangle Dangle Celebration is Finally Here. DC Group Urges Residents to Boycott Eastern Shore. New Android L Update Confirmed. A lot of NHRA 'Funny' business ends exciting drag race weekend in Norwalk. Tulare Public Library offers programs for all ages. All-Star teams: David Price in, Sonny Gray out. Student's gruesome murder ignites TMC-BJP tussle in Bengal. Wilmington residency requirement creates gray area.
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d@nish wrote: 12th Annual Spangle Dangle Celebration is Finally Here
Sounds like a fun event.........
[Edit: You may wish to check out Urban Dictionary, and you will see what I mean]
modified 8-Jul-14 11:59am.
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Not necessarily[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I wouldn't associate them with dangling.....
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Have you checked Urban Dictionary........you will see what I mean!
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Never heard of that version.
I'm glad to say!
It makes the example for it's second UD sense a little "different"
"that top is covered in spangles"
Um... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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... the wife asked for a nice spangly dress ...
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And a spangly necklace? I hope you bought diamonds.
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Platinum and Diamonds are the jewellery de jour. I gotta sell another kidney soon...
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Pearls, surely?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You just haven't lived until you've spangled your dangle. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Unfortunately it is a mind destroying cognitive prion for destroying those with innate subconscious marker common to many humans. Kind of like spongiform encephalitis is to neural proteins. There is another form of this cognitive attack that is in German used with some success[^] during WW1 by the British against German soldiers;
I suspect a flood zombistic hords to attack our cities because of your republishing this content.
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Braaaaaaainzzzz!
Needzzz BRAAAAAAAAAINZ!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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My understanding is that it is a technique used by spammers and malware writers for determining deliverable email addresses. Yours has just been identified to them.
They send a message to a suspected account and look for absence of non-delivery messages. This process is typically done from a disposable account and the gibberish ensures that it is not snagged by a spam filter or dropped into a black hole.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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It is an outlook.com address so I cannot really filter it out. I am thinking to contact them for fun if they are real.
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What!
The!
F***!
I have one SatNav with all of Europe on it and a built in SatNav in the car with UK & RoI only. I thought, stupidly obviously, that I could transfer the maps from one to the other.
No.
No that won't work. I have to buy the maps for each device. Okay, so I go and see.
£105!!plus p&p because I can't just download it.
Elephant off and die! I'll take two SatNavs in the car then.
[edit - that's UK and RoI, not RoI only]
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Man up.
Buy a paper map from the petrol station for the whole of europe for a tenner!
(or print out a google map before you go)
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I tried one of them fancy paper maps once, once its all unfolded and stuck to the inside of the windscreen I couldn't see where I was going. 
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