Can My Image Appear on APOD?: How APOD Really Works
Abstract
The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) makes an effort to present and annotate the best astronomical images of our time. How "best" is defined in practice is debatable and will be discussed. However, if your image appears destined to appear in future astronomy textbooks, there is a good chance it will be highlighted on APOD. Perhaps the most ambitious goal of APOD is to bolster astronomy as a globally unifying medium, highlighting that all of humanity shares the night sky. Perhaps the least ambitious goal is to find enough time to prepare a reasonably interesting and error-free APOD for tomorrow. In practice, APOD has been cited by many teachers of astronomy as making educational images easily available to bolster their lectures and give a background understandable to their students. Feedback from teachers is therefore particularly encouraged.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229
- Pub Date:
- January 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017AAS...22942101N