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20 years 1 month ago #5158 by John OBrien
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Well this certainly surprised me. Check out today's APOD picture of airplane contrails from NASA's web site.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041013.html

And I thought light was the only enemy of astronomers. :shock:
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20 years 1 month ago #5159 by stepryan
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Well this certainly surprised me. Check out today's APOD picture of airplane contrails from NASA's web site.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041013.html

And I thought light was the only enemy of astronomers. :shock:


definitely a scary image. i would not have thought planes could have such an effect. with bigger planes coming online it can only make it worse.
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20 years 1 month ago #5160 by voyager
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:shock: :shock: :shock:

Holly mother!!!!

That realy is scarey!
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20 years 1 month ago #5167 by dave_lillis
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It almost looks like graffiti
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