Image Credit & Copyright: A.J. Smadi
2025 July 18
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Explanation: This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies, its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. And in the early morning hours on July 6, it posed very briefly with the International Space Station when viewed from a location in Federal Way, Washington, USA. This well-planned image, a stack of video frames, captures their momentary conjunction in the same telescopic field of view. With the ISS in low Earth orbit, space station and gas giant planet were separated by almost 1.4 billion kilometers. Their apparent sizes are comparable but the ISS was much brighter than Saturn and the ringed planet’s brightness has been increased for visibility in the stacked image. Precise timing and an exact location were needed to capture the ISS/Saturn conjunction.
Tomorrow’s picture: light-weekend
Scottie's Playtime 
AOPD has been a favorite daily visit almost since I first startied using this new-fangled ‘world wide web’ thing.
I have a huge collection of desktop backgrounds I’ve gotten from there…
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Cool! I’m never sure, when I snag a photo, if I really should, but I figure they can see my purpose and they’re well-attributed.
I look at it first thing every day, too. Sure gonna miss it if it goes away.
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if it’s a NASA image, it’s in the public domain, for the rest they give the copyright ifo somewhere in tht day’s writeup.
Thanks, Ali! Now I’ve got that dire thought in my head…just the pure wanton destruction for the sake of hurting people is the one thing I can never, ever forgive these people.
Wrecking nice things just because they can makes me definitely want to hurt them.
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