scumble on 7/8/2006 at 07:37
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Taken by me a block from my house. Two minute exposure with a Nikon D50, tweaked a bit in WinGIMP.
Very pretty! I'll have to try that myself on a clear night. I wonder how long you have to leave it before you pick up the earth's rotation...
Vernon on 7/8/2006 at 09:45
I think alian forces and space marnirs :)
Fafhrd on 8/8/2006 at 02:47
Quote Posted by scumble
Very pretty! I'll have to try that myself on a clear night. I wonder how long you have to leave it before you pick up the earth's rotation...
about 20 seconds with a 28mm lens. I built a barndoor tracking mount out of some old plywood and a really cheap ball mount. I'm currently working on modifying it with a sixty-tooth gear so I can get more accurate tracking and use my 500mm lens to get some decent pictures of the brighter DSOs. I'll have to buy a decent ball mount for it though.
demagogue on 8/8/2006 at 02:58
I can't see a single star at night in NYC. :(
Phydeaux, your story, and the failure of the superconductor supercollider to get funded, stuff like that just gets me down. With all the crap people are willing to spend money on, this is like the search for FUNDAMENTAL knowledge, people. Once we know it we know it forever. It stays with us; enriches us. Why does politics and operational sorts of problems like this have to dick around with the really important stuff?
Printer's Devil on 8/8/2006 at 05:34
For the astronomically inclined, keep this bookmarked: (
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
The scales are often so massive as to boggle the mind, but it's good reading nonetheless.
Bulgarian_Taffer on 8/8/2006 at 09:02
I do hope that NASA will approve the Hubble servicing misssion in 2007. But since the Columbia disaster I don't know whether they'll take the risk.
Bjossi on 8/8/2006 at 13:47
I love pretty space pictures, I've been a big fan of how black holes eating a star for lunch, are estimated to look like. :cheeky:
