MetaFilter posts tagged with APOD

"Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape"

nthdegx — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:18:29 -0800

page2rss is a simple, effective RSS scraper. For instance, here's an RSS feed for Astronomy Picture of the Day. A powerful feature: "You can add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing."

APOD

ztdavis — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:59:57 -0800

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is simply amazing.

kokogiak — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:12:23 -0800

APOD turns seven. The Astronomy Picture of the Day hit the seven-year mark on Sunday (full archive list here). Simple and consistent in design, (possibly a record-holder for longest consistent design of an updated site) it's still maintained by astronomers Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell.

BentPenguin — Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:24:48 -0800

Singing the holiday blues? Its quite a common affliction. Nothing like a collective brush with death however, to put stuff all back into the proper perspective.

aflakete — Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:52:13 -0800

This picture of the Space Shuttle and the ray of "shadow" from the moon is pretty cool. I even think I buy the explanation.

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:52:33 -0800

This reminded me of one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Once on vacation in Eastern Oregon, there was a total eclipse of the moon, just like this one. And some people nearby were taking photographs of it. Flash photographs. The round-trip time to the moon at the speed of light is 3 seconds and I wouldn't even want to calculate the attenuation caused by 320,000 miles of range. Sometimes it seems as if some people are completely and totally clueless about what they're doing.