Astronomy Picture of the Day

Will Campbell's Excellent Venus image

What is this? The story behind this is just hilarious! I laughed out loud for a good while. Click here for more from Will Campbell* about what this is, and why it was not quite what he was expecting to get!

-cvj

(*A fellow blogger on the LA scene, with many an excellent post over on the blog [sic], and Metroblogging LA.)

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7 Responses to “Astronomy Picture of the Day”


  1. 1 astromcnaught

    Ah, lovely. Makes my heart warm that does.

    Astrophotography is not the easiest thing in the world, especially in the old days before GPS mounts, autoguiding, auto everything.

    I probably have a pile of negatives somewhere that exhibit every fault known to astrophotographer-kind; apart from this new one !!! I guess it would be equivalent to an earthquake.

  2. 2 Oliver

    Reminds me of the time when I took some photos of an eclipse with a beautiful, Russian made, manual focus, SLR camera. No doubt the pictures would have been stunning, had I remembered to put some film in…

  3. 3 Navneeth

    And it reminds me when I recently tried to take a picture of the ISS…

    An ECG in the sky

  4. 4 ccpetersen

    I love it!

    Who among us has NOT taken such a pic, mesmerized by the scene but forgetting that the camera does not have our mental capacity for wonderment!

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