Astronomy Picture of the Day - Advanced Imaging Conference

Astronomy Picture of the Day
(APOD on the World Wide Web: 1995-2006)
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov
A new Astronomy and Space
Science image every day with text
and links
Largest annotated archive of
diverse astronomy images on the
web
A service of Astrophysics
Sciences Division (NASA/GSFC)
and Michigan Tech Physics Dept.
Authored and edited by R.J.
Nemiroff & J.T. Bonnell
APOD Site Operations
Daily files are queued in advance and copied to
astropix.html (e.g. ap990123.html astropix.html)
GSFC site updated at midnight ET
All files remain in dated archive: June 16, 1995 to
present
Search engine (Swish-E indexing by Steve
Fantasia/GSFC)
Subject Index (by MTU students) available
Calendar style interface (by M. Sudo).
APOD is Hypertext Authoring
The Web is a linked literature: we wish to discover what the
authors of Web pages are choosing to link and what they are
choosing to link to.
… the SCIAM enhanced articles go through separate author and
editorial processes. APOD pages, by contrast, are not written by
independent authors but by the editors of the site. Also by contrast,
each APOD page is written explicitly to be linked: the textual
content is constructed to function as an abstract with links providing
all the detailed or background information required by the various
readership profiles.
(Conclusion:) At the moment, there is very little real hypermedia on
the Web except that created by authors of hypertext literature and
some well edited sites.
From: Writing and Reading Hypermedia on the Web, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall
and Timothy Miles-Board, February 2000, Multimedia Research Group,
University of Southampton, UK
APOD Mirror Sites and Translations
England (University College London):
http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html maintained by Ian Howarth
France (in French from Ciel des Hommes ): http://www.cidehom.com/apod.php3,
maintained by Laurent Laveder
Israel (in Hebrew from Jordan Valley College, Blossoms of Science):
http://www.yarden.ac.il/bloss/apod/ap_today.htm, maintained by Shaul Yannai
Norway (in Norwegian): http://www.vitnytt.no/apod/, maintained by
Agnar Odegard
Czech Republic (in Czech): http://www.astro.cz/apod/ maintained by Josef
Chlachula
Russia (in Russian from St. Petersburg Youth Astronomy School):
http://apod.da.ru maintained by Alexander Sergeev
Switzerland: http://mirrors.inside.net/apod/apod/, maintained by Balthasar
Indermuehle
Taiwan (in Chinese):
http://sprite.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod/apod.html, maintained by
Han-Tzong Su
Turkish: http://www.bulutsu.org,
maintained by Murat Tuncay
Catalan: http://www.apodcatala.com
maintained by Joan Gironès Pau
APOD Access by Domain
.gov
4
.net
3
.com
2
.edu
1
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Percent Page Views
35
40
45
50
APOD contributions from ...
Space-based astrophysical observatories (e.g.
Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer)
Astro-imaging community
Solar system exploration missions
Large ground-based observatories (e.g. ESO,
KPNO, Gemini) and universities.
Some people with cameras
hints for submitting images to APOD
email or post the images to a website - send to
both Bonnell and Nemiroff
use an appropriate subject line (e.g. APOD
submission: NGC 42).
supply some information about the image (e.g.
FOV, exposure, tel/cam, date/location, misc?)
topical images are often likely to be snapped up
there are only 365 days in a year ...
Chris Schur: Oct 22, 2006 Comet Swan Last Night
Tunc Tezel: Oct 22, 2006 Orionid Sky
Tunc Tezel: Oct 22, 2006 Orion Dawn
Richard Crisp: Oct 22, 2006 - M76
Visitor: Oct 22, 2006 - Prettyin-shades-of-Pink storm front
Alan Friedman: Oct 21, 2006 APOD submission Copernicus
Chris McDaniel: Oct 20, 2006
- sun pillar
Alessio Pisani: Oct 20, 2006
Stephan’s Quintet
Stefan Seip: Oct 20, 2006 – M27
Abe Megahed: Oct 19, 2006 - [Fwd:
Shuttle Launch As Seen From ISS] 1
Abe Megahed: Oct 19, 2006 - [Fwd:
Shuttle Launch As Seen From ISS] 2
Andrea Tamanti: Oct 19, 2006 C/2006 M4 SWAN comet
Patrick Vantuyne: Oct 19, 2006 SOHO-Art
Charles Shahar: Oct 19, 2006 DSS2 Color Images for APOD
Charles Shahar: Oct 19, 2006 DSS2 Color Images for APOD
Ralf Vandebergh: Oct 19, 2006 elliptical galaxy NGC 404 (Mirach’s
Ghost)
Gilovision: Oct 18, 2006 Bubble nebula
Larry Landalfi: Oct 18, 2006 Star Trails
Robert Gendler: Oct 18, 2006 AE Auriga Complex
Chris Schur: Oct 17, 2006 NGC6910 in Cygnus - The Y cluster
M. Limber: Oct 17, 2006 APOD submission
Anton Sanin: Oct 17, 2006
– color image of moon
Larry Landolfi: Oct 17, 2006 APOD submissions
Mark Millan: Oct 17, 2006 APOD - NGC 891
Wes Stauffer: Oct 16, 2006 IC 1805 APOD Submission
David Harrington: Oct 16, 2006 APOD submission / Mees Obs.
Moonrise/set
Steve Cannistra: Oct 16, 2006 –
California Dreaming
Filippo Ciferri: Oct 16, 2006 NGC 281 from Rome
Filippo Ciferri: Oct 16, 2006 NGC 891 from Rome
Nancy Levit: Oct 16, 2006 –
astronomy inspired quilt
Noel Carboni: Oct 16, 2006 –
M31 with/without foreground
stars
Dean Salman: Oct 16, 2006 Cave Nebula H-Alpha RGB
Serge Brunnier: Oct 15, 2006 The sky at 19,300 feet altitude
(Nevado Oros del Salado, Chile)
Gordon Gillet: Oct 15, 2006 –
Paranal Moonset
Steve Mandel: Oct 15, 2006 Alpha Cam - The Runaway
Star
Charles Shahar: Oct 19, 2006 – M31 DS2
Rolando Ligustri: Oct 15, 2006
– latest images (CARA)
Cometary Archive for Amateur
Astronomers
APOD day jobs:
Can a Gravitational Lens Magnify Gravity? A Possible Solar System
Test –R.J. Nemiroff, 2005 ApJ. 628, 1081.
On the Problem of Detecting Quantum-Gravity Based Photon Dispersion
in Gamm-ray Burst Time Series – J.D. Scargle, J.P. Norris, J.T. Bonnell,
2006 ApJ. submitted.
APOD
origins: