Here’s this week’s image for the Where In The Universe Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yourself extra points if you can name the instrument responsible for the image. We’ll provide the image today, but won’t reveal the answer until later this week. This gives you a chance to mull over the image and provide your answer/guess in the comment section. Please, no links or extensive explanations of what you think this is — give everyone the chance to guess.
UPDATE: Answer has been posted below.
This week’s WITU challenge image was a cropped version of an image I took in March 2010 of space shuttle Discovery during a midnight rollout to the launchpad. A unique silhouette shadow formed up in the clouds from the Xenon lights shining of the shuttle stack. The effect only lasted a short time, but I was able to capture it with my Fuji Finepix S2000. Here is the full image, below, which was featured on the popular Astronomy Picture of the Day website this week. I’m usually known for my words and not my pictures, so it was an honor to have an image I took posted on such a well-regarded website.
You can read the full story about how I captured the image on my personal blog, and see more images of the shadow, some of which I think might be better than this one, however the effect is more subtle.
You all made me feel very good that so many of you recognized this week’s WITU as my APOD image!
![Full image of the silhouette shadow that formed on the clouds during Discovery's rollout in March 2010. Image: Nancy Atkinson](https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Rollout-050.jpg)
Air raid! Helmets on!!
Heh – somewhere where Giant Mice and Gators eat Oranges… =-)
I’m APODitive that I’ve seen this shot somewhere in the UniverseToday…
This is a detail of a photo taken by one Nancy Atkinson on planet Verymuch Earth. Some shadows n’ stuff doing crazy things with light. The instrument? Dunno.
Gotham City, beta testing the Bat-Signal. Still a few problems …
To the Shuttlemobile …. 🙂
The shadow of Discovery here on Earth.
I’d say we are all apod fans here.
That’s the shadow cast by the shuttle discovery on a bank of fog at cape canaveral.
It’s the light from a policeman’s flashlight during a raid on Cheech and Chong’s party.
It’s from the Astronomy Picture of the day and yes, the shadow of the shuttle Discovery.
Since no one has gone for it yet, I’ll get myself those extra points.
The instrument: a Fuji FinePix S2000HD. Or perhaps, the S2100HD? 😛
As probably everyone here checks out the APOD, this is Discovery STS-131 rollout shadow, on March 2, 2010 by Nancy taken with Fuji Finepix S2000
Onlu the shadow knows!
sorry it is early morning
Only the shadow knows
Isn’t it traditional to spray jets of water on the retirement flight?
Why not just roll out in daylight?
“Why not just roll out in daylight?”
They’re looking to avoid Florida’s thunderstorms AFAIU.