What is the meaning behind your avatar?

[ZeroID (Brent)]

I was always amused and fascinated by the characters who play the sidelines in films. The story within a story, hence Skrat out of the Ice Age films. He is always trying so hard and perpetually denied and always looks so startled.

[Osirisra (Ken)]

Mine is the Egpytian God Osiris, God of the Dead.

[Moon (James)]

I started off with just the Moon, but we had a copy cat in our midst, so I had to diversify a bit. I figured out how to make animated gifs, and a new avatar was born.
- one of the dogs, me holding up the leaning tower of Pisa, the Moon, ngc253, ngc3293
James

[keni (Ken)]

You know how it goes.
Unclip right foot...lean left....
Oh dear...crash...much embarrassment and amusement for riding buddies..

Ken.

[astronut (John)]

As president of MAS, I was responsible for procuring our speakers.
I have been priveliged to meet and discuss astronomy with many distinguished astronomers, over the years.
One of the most dynamic would have to be Prof Fred Watson....my avatar is Fred & myself at our forum earlier this year.

[The Mekon (John Briggs)]

Mine reflects a number of things:

Gives a clue to my generation - a baby boomer who read Dan Dare comic strips as a boy.

I'm also a small man with a bald head.

I used it first on a motorcycle site - I have a number of Kawasakis whose racing colour is green.

But I hope I am not an evil genius who wants to rule the Galaxy!

[von Tom (Tom)]

Mine is a shot I'm very happy I got - Saturn during the daytime.

[Hagar (Doug)]

You know me Richard, should be self explanitory.

[Paddy (Patrick)]

Mine's just a picture of me with my scope.

Well... if only I was that good looking.

Our dogs are my regular companions at the scope at night, especially Harvey, the chap in my avatar. I have to be careful getting off the small stepladder that I use to get to the eyepiece as he is often sitting under the bottom step, perhaps awaiting his turn at the ep.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Just a plain hard worker .......................well i used to be.


Cheers Kev

[richardda1st (Richard)]

Originally Posted by Hagar

You know me Richard, should be self explanitory.

Well not really, but is this ( http://www.behindthename.com/name/hagar ) how you see yourself.


Hi Paddy, I think Harvey deserves a much bigger pic than that. More like Waxing_Gibbous' Jack Russel Bert
Our now departed dogs Jasmine a cross Border collie wasn't interested in astronomy, but Chloe a cross Kelpie/dingo/kangaroo always parked herself under the tripod of my old Tasco newt and stared at me waiting for her turn.

Cheers
Richard

[sjastro]

To mathematicians the most famous mathematical equation ever devised.

A poll amongst physicists in 2004 came to the same conclusion.
(E=mc^2 came fifth.)

Regards

Steven

[Sarge (Rod)]

I found it and liked it, so here it is.

The name comes from my job, been one for 20 years.

Rod

[Paddy (Patrick)]

Originally Posted by richardda1st

Hi Paddy, I think Harvey deserves a much bigger pic than that. More like Waxing_Gibbous' Jack Russel Bert
Our now departed dogs Jasmine a cross Border collie wasn't interested in astronomy, but Chloe a cross Kelpie/dingo/kangaroo always parked herself under the tripod of my old Tasco newt and stared at me waiting for her turn.

Cheers
Richard

I agree he needs a bigger picture, but then the scope wouldn't fit. Lovely story of Chloe, Richard.

[Buddman (Adam)]

There was a house being built across the road and we scrounged some mirror tiles from the skip to use in the kids cubby house. We hosed them off and propped them up to dry. Later on I caught myself in one of them and had a chuckle at how I had warped so I grabbed a camera and took a few shots.

If I ever come up with something smart I'll change my avatar from the big chin to the big brain shot.

Trying to work out if I can change the cubby house into an oservatory now the kids have lost interest.

My surname is Budd so I got the nickname Buddman, no real mystery there.

[ChrisM]

The pic of my obs was taken on Black Saturday when the sky turned orange. Shortly afterwards, my obs turned a dirty gray with ash. I've kept the pic because it's distinctive.

Chris

[stephenb (Stephen)]

My avatar is one of my film images of SN1987a, the only naked eye supernova in 400 years. (In my avatar it's the orange star on the top of the LMC. The red blob above that is the Tarantula Nebula).

[erick (Eric)]

Just something cute I came across. I'm a serial avatar changer. Starting to feel like another is due soon........

[acropolite (Phil)]

An ancient greek, I'm not of that nationality, but my street has a name similar to my username.

[richardda1st (Richard)]

Originally Posted by erick

Just something cute I came across. I'm a serial avatar changer. Starting to feel like another is due soon........

Erick, your avatar was one of the ones I thought to be very esoteric, but alas it's just because it's cute