Not About Coins. About Space

There are a fair amount of unique personalities around here that I thought a few might find this of interest. There is a live feed from the International Space Station. It is hit or miss whether there is a feed, but when there is, it is pretty awe inspiring. I have been floating above our dear Earth from time to time, snapping a screen print on occasion, when I see things of interest. A few photos from the last couple days. I may add more in the future

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#iss

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/H...tion/Where_is_the_International_Space_Station

The pictures are labelled with the location of each photo.
Brazil Cyprus Caribbean Gibraltar Namibia NW Africa Cameroon Storm Amazon at Noon

 

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Nice! Thanks for the link.

The third picture is not the Caribbean though, it is the Atlantic over the Bahamas. Crooked Island is at the bottom, Turks and Caicos at the top (image is oriented SSE up).

 

Nice images! We could also post coins with celestial themes...

 

Space ancients?


Septimius Severus, Nikopolis ad Istrum, AD 139-211
AE, 3.11g, 16.5mm; 2h
Obv.: AV KAI [CE] CEVHPOC, laureate head right
Rev.: NIKOΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟCICT; crescent and one star
Ref.: AMNG 1436v; Nikopolis BMC 17
Unsure why Wildwinds does not include the final C on the obv even though all the pictures they have include it. My coin includes it so the C is mentioned in the obv legend. Also, the [CE] is off flan.

@Skyman collects space exonumia...I think.

 

You are correct, that is the Turks and Caicos (been there a couple times.) However, I only visit the region and don't live there. Therefore I am not as specific as some, when it comes to where one body of water ends and another begins. Whether it is leeward, windward, smack dab in the middle, hugging Venezuela, or the Yucatan coast, I call it all the Carib. Now Bermuda.....I call that the Atlantic. ;-)

btw I figured someone would point out the Turks, etc and I figured that person would be you.

 

Cool link! Why not space related coins?

Pamphylia, Sillyon. Lucilla AE24. Bust of Men
Lucilla, daughter of Marcus Aurelius, wife of Lucius Verus, Augusta, 164-182 AD. AE24, 9.5g.
Obv: ΛΟΥΚΙΛΛΑ CEBACTH. Draped bust right, hair gathered in back in Chignon.
Rev: CIΛΛYEΩN. Draped bust of Mên right, crescent at shoulders.

Mên was the male Anatolean Moon God.

 

Here's a Post-Reform Quadrans that is part of the Star series of Roman Republic struck coinage.

169-158 B.C.
Rome Mint, Anonymous Issue (Star)
Æ quadrans 3.53 gm - 16.9 mm - 9 h
Obv: Head of Hercules right, wearing lion's-skin headdress; three pellets behind
Rev: ROMA, prow of galley right; star to right, three pellets below
Ref: Crawford 196/4, Syd 264d

 

Excellent stuff! Thank you for sending me a link Jwt708!

If you are going to live in the ISS you'll need to be resupplied from time to time. Here is a time lapse pic from Earth of a (Dragon) resupply vessel catching up to the ISS to berth with it to drop off supplies. Needless to say, the ISS is the thicker streak, and the Dragon is the faint streak below the thicker streak.



Here's a piece from my collection. It was a resupply package used on 4 different shuttle flights bringing supplies up to the Russian space station MIR in the 1990's. One would assume that NASA is using comparable packages today. It is roughly 22" X 18" X 7". Note the velcro attachment areas.

 

ASTERIA was the Titan goddess (perhaps) of the oracles and prophecies of night, including prophetic dreams, the reading of the stars (astrology), and necromancy. -Theoi.com

Syria, Decapolis, Philadelphia. Commodus AE22. Veiled bust of Asteria
Obv: L AVP KOM MODOC KAIC. Draped and cuirassed bust of Commodus as Caesar.
Rev: ΦΙΛ Κ C V ΘΕΑΛΕΤΕΡΙ. Asteria r., draped and veiled with star on top of head.
20mm, 8.6g.
Spijkerman 32. rare

 

Cool bag! I always enjoy the medals and other space stuff you post.

 

I follow a bunch of instagram accounts for the ISS and the astronauts up there and really enjoy the pictures they post.

There is a great picture of Winnipeg at night from the ISS. If you look closely you can see me waving.

 

Sweet. Unfortunately they use different cameras for those photos. The night resolution on the live stream is zero from what I have seen.

I wish they had a few other cameras going, but as it is, it is pretty cool to be able to have the live feed.

To be able to do a screen print and capture a photo, basically gives me (or anyone) access to a fixed focus, fixed aperture, camera in orbit. Two camera that alternate views. They point and I get to click...whenever I want.

Elon Musk has nothing on me......

 

Путешествие сквозь космос / The Known Universe:

 

And if you are not feeling insignificant enough here is another:

http://www.flabber.nl/sites/default/files/archive/files/scale-of-the-universe-2.swf

 

very cool ... thanks for the sweet photos/link

=> "luckily" I had my pants-on in that one photo of earth ... 10 seconds earlier and you would have seen a full moon!!

 

Going the other way, NASA has a lot of images online taken with the Hubble telescope than are free for use although I doubt they had coin backgrounds in mind. The other one is a meteorite but since this is not Meteorite Talk I'll ask you look at the coin of John VIII instead. Perhaps you may agree with me that these distract from the coin and prefer using the inky blackness of space instead.

 

I have a STAR! I would not call this a Pentagram, as it is filled in...but a STAR:


Roman Republic
211-206 BCE
AR Victoriatus.
Anonymous issue
Obv: Laureate head of Jupiter r.
REV: Victory crowning trophy; in field, pentagram (nope! I call it a STAR !!!), ROMA in ex
Sear 50; Sydenham 233a. Crawford 105/1
2.54 g, 18 mm

@ancientcoinguru would kill me if I did not post this...

 

I was going to move to Gen. Discussion, but the group has steered it Ok so far, so will leave here.

 

Excellent thread, just to keep it legal...
Ruler: Faustina I
Coin: Bronze Assarian
DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA - Diademed, draped bust right
SC - Crescent moon and seven stars
Exergue:


Mint: Rome (After 141AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 9.12g / 27mm / -
References:

• RIC 1199
• Cohen 275
• BMC 1476

 

And another...


Geta
Region, City: Nikopolis ad Istrum
Coin: Billon
L AVP KAI GETAC - Bare-headed, draped bust right
NIKOPOLITWN PROC I - Crescent within, star
Mint: (198-209 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 2.52g / 16mm / -
References:

• AMNG 1648