2011-08-01
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photo 05:51:00
APOD: 2011 July 30 - A Tale of Two Hemispheres:
In projection, the mosaic view sandwiches the horizons visible in all-sky images taken from the northern hemisphere’s Canary Island of La Palma (top) and the south’s high Atacama Desert between the two hemispheres of the Milky Way Galaxy. The photographers’ choice of locations offered locally dark skies enjoyed by La Palma’s Roque de los Muchachos Observatory and Paranal Observatory in Chile. But it also allowed the directions to the Milky Way’s north and south galactic poles to be placed near the local zenith. That constrained the faint, diffuse glow of the plane of the Milky Way to the mountainous horizons. As a result, an even fainter S-shaped band of light, sunlight scattered by dust along the solar system’s ecliptic plane, can be completely traced through both northern and southern hemisphere night skies.
2010-08-28
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quote 10:15:00
“ Sky’s marketing budget is larger than the entire programme budget of ITV1. ”
Mark Thompson, BBC Director-General, during the MacTaggart lecture (transcript at The Guardian)
2010-03-11
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video 13:23:00
A composite of 42 sunrises over the Exploratorium, San Francisco; part of the History of the Sky project.
2009-10-06
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quote 07:58:00
“ [Cameron] is going to scrap all the political impartiality rules covering British television (except on the BBC). If [he] succeeds, Sky News will mutate into Fox News, pumping its poison 24/7. Murdoch duly endorsed the Tories. ”
Johann Hari: If we care about the BBC, we must fight to defend it (via Dan W)
2009-06-05
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photo 15:16:19
A plane takes off in a stormy sky above Dusseldorf: BBC NEWS | Day in pictures.
2009-01-26
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photo 14:44:00
Winner of (one of the categories in) the first DPReview challenge, ice crystal haloes. Lovely.
I really like one of the judge’s examples, too.
