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pinball1970 reacted to .Scott's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with
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That Hubble photo shows some serious gray-scale contouring. This happens when the brightness/contrast is set to highlight a limited... -
pinball1970 posted the thread R.I.P. Steven Cropper: October 12th 1942 – Dec 3rd 2025 in Art, Music, History, and Linguistics.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cropper Everyone remembers Booker T for “Green onions” but this was always my favourite.
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pinball1970 replied to the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy.A little here but there is more info in the wiki page...
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.Ok ill see your moon in different time zones and raise you some stars and a rotating galaxy in my office. Generated by this little...
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pinball1970 reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Mystery of the Universe's lover, curious about quantum mechanics with
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Welcome. Be sure to check out the rules and guidelines. :woot: -
crop till you drop?
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Ditto but earlier in the afternoon.
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Moonrise at twilight.
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pinball1970 reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Informative.
Yeah, it's 9 arcmin wide, nearly a third the size of the full moon in the sky. So we'd be able to see it's if it were brighter.
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pinball1970 reacted to .Scott's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Like.
You can try a search on Messier 104, it's astronomical designation. It has a wiki page. As you likely already know, it about 30,000,000...
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pinball1970 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Like.
Wikipedia is a good place to start. The page has an overview and some references to follow up on...
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pinball1970 reacted to Charles Link's post in the thread Announcement PF Member Awards 2025 Coming Soon! with Like.
One of my favorite times of the year. If I'm lucky I may even get on the ballot, but it's a lot of fun in any case. :)
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pinball1970 reacted to Greg Bernhardt's post in the thread Announcement PF Member Awards 2025 Coming Soon! with Like.
This year the member awards voting will be from Sunday Dec 21st to Sunday Jan 4th. There is plenty of time to still impress. Be active...
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.Quite nice cloud formation over Manchester, no snow yet so hopefully some nice colours to come in the next few months.
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Candlelight close-ups revisited I shot some close-ups of a candle today for fun. I reached 1:1 (life-size) reproduction on some of the...
