gwenforr.bsky.social
Artist, guitar builder, stargazer, housewife. genderless witch in a trans woman’s body.
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Oh ok yeah, I thought we were talking about the op image
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Definitely not a Hasselblad. Those were film cameras back then, and Galileo was an uncrewed mission bound for Jupiter. It actually wouldn’t take much to get a photo like this in terms of the optical system itself, but the electronic imaging was pretty advanced:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experime...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Or...
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Ossae
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*angry goose meme*
“And what happened to Doctor King and the other non-violent protesters, Derek?”
“What fucking happened to them?!!”
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Call that a Strawbazzle
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Lol, wait til they find out who is really blocking the release of those files
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The alt text says this is from one of Jupiter’s moons.
It is not.
That is our moon, and the photo was taken from earth.
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Yes, the original is real and I have seen it before as well.
The image that was posted came from one of the many bot-run pages with “jwst” in their name, which post mostly ai crap. It had an extra planet, no stars, and was “cleaned up” in other noticeable ways.
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It was actually your question that made me realize something was wrong. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the original, but it used to get shared around quite a bit
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No, it is an ai rendition of the photo you are referring to.
This is the original
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Neither, it is an ai rendition of the original photo. This is the real deal here
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Unfortunately it is an ai rendition of his photo.
This is the original
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I’ve never had gps
I use my iPad these days, but it’s WiFi only, and I just look at google maps beforehand and write down notes on an index card.
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Marsrise (sorry Paul)
Taken by me, January 14, 2025
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Spork
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That’s because it gets more lucrative the more you dilute it
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Wait, what?
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Galaxies aren’t tilted any particular way. You can see Andromeda tilted either way, or even horizontal or vertical, depending on where it is in the sky as the earth rotates.
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Well only because we know it actually exists. Other than that, the image is completely hypothetical. Hubble isn’t capable of resolving it at anywhere near this scale. It’s just a tiny blob in the actual image. Like maybe twenty pixels or so.
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The irony being that most of those same people will use diabetes risk to justify their fatphobia
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She didn’t say morality.
She said religion.
They are not the same thing.
At all.
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Seepy
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I thought that was Caligula
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I wonder how many astronomers got conked on the noggin by the end of that counterweight shaft before they put the boxing glove on it. Certainly not the way they had intended to see stars ✨😵💫😹
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I love that you posted this during new moon, as if to test our faith 🌙
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No, It is at an average of 58 million kilometers from the sun in its orbit, so it is quite often off to the side a bit from our perspective.
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They make my iPad crash.
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Yes, Mars was magnitude -1.4 when I took this. That’s 3.6 times as bright as Saturn was in the posted image (mag. 0)
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Also consider how small the moon appears in the sky. It may give the impression of looking big, because we know that it is huge, but it can be completely obscured by the tip of your little finger held at arm’s length. Now consider what a fraction of that looks like.
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The bright crater just to the right of Mare Crisium in the image is Proclus, with a diameter of 28 kilometers, which translates to an angular width of 14.4 arc seconds as seen from earth. Saturn’s angular size (not counting rings) at the time was 18 arc seconds.
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I do, and all my space pics have it
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And with a brighter planet you don’t have to do a composite.
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This is is a very small portion of the moon that we are seeing here.
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It is a composite of 3 images to deal with the differences in brightness, but the position and size are correct. It is just a very small portion of the moon that is seen in the frame.
petapixel.com/2020/08/03/h...
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For me it’s the ones where you have to save the king from some ridiculous death, like bro you have no idea how much I despise royalty. The only reason I am still watching this dumb ad is the hope I will see him deep fried in lava.
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“Oh, think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid aunt,
Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school, and I'm working in a defense plant”
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Well, technically none of these are “true” bugs (Hemiptera)
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Hi can you give me one that I can find and photograph this time of year in the northern hemisphere?
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How many animals have choked on this assholes balloons?
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They say BlueSky doesn’t have an algorithm but this was the next post in my feed…
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I hope they both lose
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Yes, or like in Lothlorien maybe.
We have some up the creek behind our house and I always go look for them
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Trout lilies are my favorite spring ephemeral
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Everything is bolder on Mars