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Originally Posted by Merlin66
Well done!
I'm interested. What does " The Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is based upon work supported by NASA under award No. 80NSSC17M0076." mean?
You get NASA support? Financial?
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Congratulations Peter.
Lovely image, well deserved.
Joe
Ken,
The statement very likely means that a portion of the salaries of the two scientists who run it and any other associated costs, are paid by a particular pot of money within NASA. It may not be a full time job but I'm sure it takes up a substantial amount of time and that time needs to be accounted/covered not just taken out of some other project's funds.
Fred Espenak's "day job" at NASA had nothing to do with calculating solar eclipse circumstances although it was related. But NASA supported his eclipse calculations and publications and no doubt, there would have been a budget code to pay for that work.
cheers
Joe