Talk:Zodiacal light
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[edit] Seen it
I cant believe but i think i saw the zodiacal light a few days ago. But it can never be that because the phenomenon shouldnt be as bright and not across the sky. What i saw was completely different. A blue band that went across venus, mercury and Jupiter and passed the antares in scorpious..ended in saggitarius.. That was wonderful to see it a few moments after the sunset.... Thats not the zodiacal light as zodiacal light doesnt normally stretch across the sky like that. Another thing is that the same kind of band but much different and stretching the other way was seen other days too (after that day.)... it might have formed because of the clouds but the day i saw it for the first time, i thought it was the first time i'd seen the ZL. and there was my pal whom i told it was that........ NOW I AM CONFUSED.
DIPPY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thecosmicgroup/message/234 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thecosmicgroup/
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Did you see this in october of 2003? If so, you saw the most powerful arorua on record, spawned by the most powerful solar storm ever. it was so powerfull, it defied our traditional view of nice, shiny curtainy arorua. It was just a bright blue arch all the way across the sky. I saw it very well, directly overhead even where I live in Kansas. Nick Warren 04:27, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
No I saw it in 2005. It must have been some 'messy' trick of the atmosphere. Now is the time to see the zodiacal light anyways. Moon wont disturb the sight for sometime now.--202.70.64.15 12:56, 25 March 2006 (UTC) DIPPY http://www.geocities.com/kosmandu
[edit] Split
I think the Zodiacal band should be split from Zodiacal Light, as the zl is generally the triangular patch, while the zb is the extended band. Otherwise, gegenschein should just redirect here instead of being an article. 132.205.94.9 02:22, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Permission to use image
The beautiful photo of the zodiacal light which has been included (with the copyright holder's permission) in this article since May 2005 was recently deleted, apparently because the licensing information was not properly documented (under current standards). I have restored the image with complete information about the licensing (GFDL) being given on the image page. For anyone who is interested I will repeat that information here:
"The copyright holder of this image is Dominic Cantin of Quebec, Canada. His website (and the source of this image is: http://www.pbase.com/dominiccantin . On May 22, 2005 I wrote to Dominic requesting permission to use the image on Wikipedia under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) using the sample letter provided by Wikipedia at that time. On May 24, 2005 I received a reply granting permission to use the image. I wrote back to him that same day, including a link where he could view his image and the associated article on Wikipedia. He wrote me again on May 25, 2005 to say that "nothing should be changed, it's perfect".
On September 9, 2007 I forwarded my complete correspondence with the copyright holder to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" as directed on the upload page so that "the Wikipedia Foundation has a record of the license in case questions should arise at a later time" about the permission for this image."
I hope this will clear up any confusion.
- The image discussed in my previous posting has been replaced in this article, so my comments above are not relevant to the current image. DannyZ 08:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- I am in communication with DannyZ over the previous image. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:33, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
