Apr 28

Caption competition

img_0177.jpgWe’ll find a Kitt Peak related prize for whoever makes us laugh the most… 

Category: Bill, Chris

47 Comments so far

  1. Waveney April 28th, 2008 10:17 am

    Its a three way overlap

  2. weezerd April 28th, 2008 11:08 am

    This one is Hanny; no it’s definitely that one!

  3. Fluffyporcupine April 28th, 2008 11:22 am

    Bill looks skeptical as Chris says ‘look, we’ve caught infinity on film!’

  4. Paolo Amoroso April 28th, 2008 11:36 am

    Don’t remove the dust off the pictures!

  5. Geoff Roynon April 28th, 2008 11:41 am

    Surely not another Voorwerp!

  6. Rick Nowell April 28th, 2008 12:18 pm

    ‘But I thought the black-and-white images were
    only for bias testing?’
    ‘Well, for colour, you would have to pay more.
    Besides, the printer’s run out of ink.’

  7. Joseph K. H. Cheng April 28th, 2008 12:20 pm

    From A to Z :- Secret Agents A ( Anna ), B ( Bill ), C ( Chris )on a night safari to stock up GZ.

  8. Hanny April 28th, 2008 12:43 pm

    Guys, you really don’t need to spoil your time on discussions about what should be the next Object Of The Day, our lovely moderators are taking care of that, really, don’t worry! ;)

  9. danny April 28th, 2008 1:07 pm

    Before Galaxy zoo we had to do it all this way…

  10. Infinity April 28th, 2008 2:19 pm

    Chris was convinced it was ET’s fingerprint that they had found on the cookie jar.

  11. Alice April 28th, 2008 2:27 pm

    “I thought we were here to do astronomy, not sleep-inducing desktop publishing”.

  12. Alice April 28th, 2008 2:38 pm

    “No, Chris, you still haven’t laid them out properly. Look - the angle between that one and that one is almost two degrees. Where’s the protractor?”

  13. Alice April 28th, 2008 2:45 pm

    “Try as they might, the world’s leading team still could not get the pictures to resemble the superior columns of scary data on the computer screens.”

    (I should have asked - are we allowed more than one go?)

  14. Alice April 28th, 2008 2:48 pm

    “No, seriously, Bill, if we sent the Zooship Enterprise to invade this area first . . .”

  15. Eric F. Diaz April 28th, 2008 3:18 pm

    You see!….It’s not blue in this image. I told you Kevin was using Photoshop to make that elliptical look blue!

  16. Alice April 28th, 2008 3:32 pm

    Mind out, Anna! There’s a wire about to hang you!

  17. Tarquin_Q_Zanzibar April 28th, 2008 5:37 pm

    “…well I still say It’s a rock!”

  18. RapidEye April 28th, 2008 5:39 pm

    This one is the prettiest!
    No, this one is much prettier!!
    Have either of you considered the beauty of _THIS_ one here!?!?

  19. Bill G April 28th, 2008 5:43 pm

    See? It *is* the face of Elvis!

  20. RapidEye April 28th, 2008 6:13 pm

    You call that a SABbc???
    That’s not even close to a SABbc, that’s a SABab on a good day!!!
    Don’t you kids know anything?!?!?!

  21. robin April 28th, 2008 6:16 pm

    All these targets to chose from and you have to pick one which doesn’t rise ’till 4 am !

  22. RapidEye April 28th, 2008 6:17 pm

    Eeny, Meany, Mini, Mo…

  23. RapidEye April 28th, 2008 6:32 pm

    This is the best route for the new offramp to the intergalactic bypass - right here!

  24. Curtis W. Garrett April 28th, 2008 7:27 pm

    After the witnesses identified the suspects from the photo lineup, they were quickly arrested.

  25. Thomas Jennings April 28th, 2008 8:41 pm

    And this is one of me in the garden, when I got my first telescope.

  26. pluk April 28th, 2008 8:50 pm

    Bill: “No Chris, it’s not your turn yet, Anna had a match”

  27. Alice April 28th, 2008 8:58 pm

    “Now it was at around the co-ordinate of this one that I had to expel Zooite No. 41 from my suitcase . . .”

  28. Alice April 28th, 2008 9:16 pm

    “Now this is Arwen, overlapping Strider . . .”

    “You must introduce them to Ptolemy and Jeannie . . .”

  29. Jules April 28th, 2008 9:41 pm

    During a cloudy moment Bill checks for cheating as Chris and Anna play pin the black hole on the galaxy.

  30. Alice April 28th, 2008 10:22 pm

    “Get into a more impressive pose! This is for a competition!”

  31. Jules April 28th, 2008 10:48 pm

    Hide the beer and crisps quick and just point randomly - they’ll never know….

  32. diaswa April 28th, 2008 11:00 pm

    See that’s why we should have turned left at Orion !

  33. Joseph K. H. Cheng April 28th, 2008 11:17 pm

    Hurrah ! We will get the Nobel Prize for sure. We have found a BLACK HOLE. No, it’s a WORM HOLE. Oh, no. It’s a… a… a…HOLE in the paper. Then we are really in a deep ” S_ _ T ” HOLE!!!

    P.S. The moderator will surely edit the letters in inverted commas.

  34. Alice April 28th, 2008 11:22 pm

    “OK, yeah, that’ll do for a place to put naughty zooites in . . . it’s where to put the good ones that worries me . . .” ;)

  35. fluffyporcupine April 29th, 2008 1:06 am

    the loser of ’spot the difference’ would have to make the tea

  36. pluk April 29th, 2008 7:06 am

    “There! The place is called “M1″ and they serve a delicious crab”

  37. pluk April 29th, 2008 7:10 am

    “Magrathea is a myth! A fairy story! It’s what parents tell their kids at night if they want them to grow up to be economists. And …”

    “… and we are currently in orbit around it.”

  38. pluk April 29th, 2008 7:19 am

    “Where are we Trillian?”

    “Exactly where we were I think.”

    “Then what’s happened to the missiles?”

    “Well, er, according to this screen they’ve just turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised-looking whale.”

  39. Joseph K. H. Cheng April 29th, 2008 7:47 am

    No finger pointing, please. If we did not find anything useful let’s face the music as real astronomers do - look to heaven for inspiration !

  40. Joseph K. H. Cheng April 29th, 2008 8:15 am

    If we do not succeed in finding the cosmic dust we are looking for we can surely apply our expertise to chimney sweeping with guaranteed success.

  41. fluffyporcupine April 29th, 2008 10:32 am

    “alright, who sneezed on this one???”

  42. Alice April 29th, 2008 11:22 am

    “What in the Galaxy are they going to come up with to say about this picture of us, then?”

  43. KPM April 29th, 2008 6:27 pm

    When you said you had a big stamp collection you weren’t kidding!….Christ how big were the envelopes these things went on!

  44. Nax April 30th, 2008 4:43 pm

    “OK… If I put my finger here like this, and we all look at these pictures, it’ll make it look like we’re working.”

  45. ratchet May 1st, 2008 10:18 pm

    “I’ll have the austrian blind with matching pelmet”

  46. ratchet May 1st, 2008 10:20 pm

    Well I think the Roman blind with matching pelmet

  47. Robert Harris October 6th, 2008 7:48 pm

    If you let your eyes go out of focus, you’ll see a 3D image of mickey Mouse!

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