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Stock Photo Illustration of the "Christmas Star"
December 24, 2020, 08:56 AM
Tooky13Stock Photo Illustration of the "Christmas Star"
The Hubble Telescope gets some amazing photos of space... here's one of them of the Christmas Star. Correction, not Hubble, but stock photo illustration.
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December 24, 2020, 09:03 AM
sigspecopsNow that's the Christmas star I want to see.
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December 24, 2020, 09:11 AM
rsboloI had not seen that one. Wow!
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December 24, 2020, 09:13 AM
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December 24, 2020, 09:17 AM
g8rforesterSorry to be "that guy," but that's a stock photo illustration, not a photo from the Hubble.
https://www.istockphoto.com/ve...gm475596154-66094107December 24, 2020, 09:26 AM
Tooky13Sorry, my bad. My wife forwarded the photo to me from her Facebook (of which I don't belong) and I didn't verify. Thanks for the heads-up. It is pretty cool though.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
December 24, 2020, 09:37 AM
12131Yeah, that looks way too perfect.
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December 25, 2020, 06:27 AM
henryazMy next door neighbors have a large nativity scene in their front yard every year. One year I recognized the star they have hanging above as a Moravian Star (I learned about this 26 point star when I spent some time in Winston-Salem NC, where there is a large Moravian community). I asked them if they knew it was a Moravian Star, and they replied that the Bible describes the Star of Bethlehem as just that (I'm not very religious or bible-read, so I cannot comment on that).
When in doubt, mumble December 25, 2020, 06:40 AM
bustabuddyMy better half showed me the same image last evening from FB and my first words were " the Hubble must have been on wide angle because it could have done a better job than that."
December 25, 2020, 07:26 AM
ScreamingCockatooI took my telescope to the mountain overlook near me and it was amazing.
Saturn's rings were perfectly rotated so you could see them!
Jupiter's Galilean moons were all bright and visible!
I had a crowd show up and I got to give a sky tour!
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
December 25, 2020, 09:20 AM
ensigmaticquote:
Originally posted by Tooky13:
Sorry, my bad. My wife forwarded the photo to me from her Facebook (of which I don't belong) ...
And that's another reason I dumped Fakebook. Far, far too much of that fake stuff going around. Even I got caught by it a couple times, and I tend to skepticism.
It is cool-looking, though.
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