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Andrewbassoon

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« on: April 16, 2010, 03:26:28 pm »
Probably just something wrong with the picture, thought it looked pretty though.

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AlexandredOr

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Re: Odd
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2010, 08:05:27 pm »
Quote from: Andrewbassoon on April 16, 2010, 03:26:28 pm
Probably just something wrong with the picture, thought it looked pretty though.



A galaxy diving into dark matter ??
 :D
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mitch

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Re: Odd
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2010, 09:59:13 pm »
Quote from: AlexandredOr on April 16, 2010, 08:05:27 pm
Quote from: Andrewbassoon on April 16, 2010, 03:26:28 pm
Probably just something wrong with the picture, thought it looked pretty though.



A galaxy diving into dark matter ??
 :D

Nice pic - A stone splashing into luminescent water  ;D
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Re: Odd
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 09:58:12 am »
Do you have a reference number for this?
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Re: Odd
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 12:10:11 pm »
That's amazing. I'd love to have the reference number too :)
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Re: Odd
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2010, 03:42:43 am »
Whoops, yeah sorry bout that. Here is the reference. Object I.D. 8647474692500816045

http://cas.sdss.org/stripe82/en/tools/quicklook/quickobj.asp?id=8647474692500816045
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Re: Odd
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2010, 06:37:13 am »
 :D I think this picture has been posted in the Pure art thread already.  ;)
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Re: Odd
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2010, 06:43:28 am »
This is what it looks like in DR7:



Must have been a processing problem in Stripe82 that caused it.
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