Astronomy
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Startrails, plane trails, boat trails, car trails. train trails – yep this one has the lot lol. Stanwell Tops last night from 10pm – 11pm looking south to Wollongong just south of Royal National Park. Worth clicking on large – really get to see the startrails even with the annoying watermark. This is a blend of 117 X 30 second exposures using the superb Schurs Startrails action / Your looking at about an hour’s worth of night sky here. Pretty trippy huh! More startrails on the left courtesy of the Milky Way. And a bit of serendipity which I find happens a lot with night shots is that it is by pure chance that I happened to be pointing straight to the south polar star so got nice concentric circles. Now what is particularly strange about this shot is that main plane trail right through the centre of the shot (pretty annoying but no way to get rid of it). The weird bit is that “ricochet” at the left hand edge of the frame like a comet contrail – any ideas?? It looks like the light hits the edge of the frame and then bounces off but it’s a plane trail – there is no way a plane would veer that sharply. Very odd. Canon 1Ds MkIII / Tv:v30secs / Av: f/3.2 / ISO: 800 / FL: 16mm
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The beautiful Comet McNaught, whose tail spread across the sky. Taken in the Hunter Valley, NSW Australia in January 2007 Taken with a Canon 350D + Sigma 17-70mm lens, 90s exposure. A look at the capture of this image: From the Vault: Comet McNaught C/2006 P1
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I went out last night and got some good clear shots of the moon.
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Comet Mcnaught showering the night sky over the Brisbane Valley, Queensland Australia. Canon 30D (with 50mm f1.8 plastic fantastic) & long exposure.
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Taken in January 2005, just south of Perth, Scotland. I looked out the window here late one evening to see a “cloud” of luminous green oriented downwards – “that’s no cloud!” and 5mins later I was a couple of miles away in the middle of nowhere on the road south of Moncrieffe Hill, admiring the pretty greens and reds :)
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For something a little unique – The ghostly ambiance of Comet McNaught over Stonehenge. “Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on August 7, 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught.[1] It was the brightest comet in over 40 years, and was easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere in January and February 2007” Information taken from the web link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught “Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury.” Information taken from the web link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
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Photographing the Milky Way with a standard DSLR camera
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Full Moon Rising (Enlarge for FULL effect :) By: / Terri~Lynn Bealle / 2009 Featured in: Images and Ideas Group / Outsiders Group (Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT)
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Blue Man misses home.
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Recorded on 22 January 2007
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The Great Nebula in Orion
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Looking south to Wollongong from Garie Cliffs in Royal National Park. Royal lies sandwiched between Wollongong and Sydney. Because of the light from both cities this shot of the Milky Way has but a fraction of the actual stars visible and less than 1% of this would be visible within the cities. / Makes for a pretty picture but where does wonder go when the light blocks out the stars? The night sky is the only time we ever get to see the infinite. What happens to us when we lose that? / Tv 30s / Av f3.5 / ISO 3200 / FL 10mm
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Aurora Australis (or Southern Aurora) March 1990, from Queenscliff Pier, Victoria, Australia. / This aurora appeared out of the darkness unexpectedly just before driving back to Melbourne after a days outing. It’s sudden appearance grew and peaked in brightness in less than a minute and gradually diminished over about 10-15 minutes. / Nikon F3, Fuji RDP film. / © Ern Mainka
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Recorded during the solar maximum in 1991. / The Southern Cross is near the top of the image.
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With the global economy caught in the gravity of the financial crisis, it’s sad that programs like the Constellation Project will have a long wait before anything truly gets off the ground. / / NASA’s Constellation Project is set up to finish the International Space Station, retire the Shuttle Fleet and build a whole new fleet of space vehicles which will take us back to the Moon, then Mars and then the places beyond. / / But with Congressional limitations and funding cutbacks due to the financial crisis, as well as being stuck with a complicated and restrictive “go as you pay” finance structure it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing any groundbreaking manned space flights in the naughties. / / This image represents a fleeting memory of a childhood dream to see man explore our planets and then the stars beyond and it’s one of the few things as a child I looked up to America for. / / The universe is a big place and we’re yet to make it out of our solar system but without programs like the Constellation Project, man may never ever get to make another giant leap. / / DETAIL / / / /
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Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, in the middle of a ski trek across Iceland.
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Over the years, a variety of people, cultures, and species have been given credit for the building of Stonehenge. Some of the most legendary figures trying to take responsibility have included: / Giants: According to old myths, dancing giants were caught in a sunbeam and petrified to stone, causing the monument to be nicknamed the “Giant’s Ring”. The stones were also believed to have healing power. / Merlin and King Arthur: Some believe Merlin himself assembled Stonehenge to commemorate slain chieftains. It’s also rumored that the Sword in the Stone, which would eventually lead Arthur onto the throne and into legend, was made from Stonehenge Stones. / Aliens: Most of the world’s earliest and most elaborate crop circles are found within a forty-mile (64km) radius of Stonehenge. Scientists today are unable to replicate crop circles, suggesting that their construction and that of Stonehenge should perhaps be credited to a more intelligent species. / Atlanteans: According to Plato, the Kingdom of Atlantis controlled the islands of the Atlantic and built many stone structures to better predict future events based on astronomical calculations. Given the fate of Atlantis, which supposedly sank into the sea, it’s debatable how accurate their predictions could have been. / Druids: John Aubrey, a Stonehenge scholar, erroneously suggested this connection three centuries ago. The Druids are an earth-based faith that we now have formed much later than the building of Stonehenge. The Druids do celebrate the summer solstice, same as Stonehenge’s true builders, and they have recently made it a tradition to incorporate this ancient monument into current rituals. / The Beaker Folk from 2500 BC are believed to have done some of the work on Stonehenge. They were an aggressive culture that invaded the Salisbury Plain. From artifacts, we know that the Beakers were sophisticated, organized, understood mathmatics, worshipped the Sun, and celebrated the solstices. This makes them ideal builders for some of the site. / The other cultures that contributed to Stonehenge remain a mystery, though archaeologists are getting closer and closer to finding answers. This is a photograph of a full scale replica of Stonehenge that was erected as a WWI memorial by Sam Hill, in Maryhill, WA which overlooks the mighty Columbia River and Mount Hood. The photograph of the Full Moon was also taken by myself in October 2008, the two were merged and edited in photoshop7 with Redfield plug-in for the rippled water effect. Stonehenge
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This image shows the three “stars” of Orion’s sword. / / The great nebula in the centre is classified as M42. It is approximately 7500 million million miles away from the earth. The red colour is caused by light being radiated by hydrogen atoms. The blue colour is the reflection of light being radiated by the massive O-class stars at the core of the nebula. The dark patches are caused by interstellar dust blocking our view. / / The smaller “Running Man Nebula” below it is classified as NGC1977. / / Technical details – Canon 400D with 200mm lens, 11×120 second exposures @ ISO800. Dark subtraction, flat field application, registration, stacking and processing in IRIS. Total exposure time 22 minutes. Here are some examples of my astrophotos as laminated prints
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Taken looking south to Wollongong from Providential Point, Royal National Park, just south of Sydney Australia. / This is my first attempt at a multi-exposure blend. This image is a combinations of 57 X 30sec exposures using the fantastic Startrails Photoshop Action that you can download free from this excellent site: / www.schursastrophotography.com/software/photoshop/startra… I was put on to this action by Dave Burrow whose amazing startrails image can be seen here: / http://www.redbubble.com/people/davidburrows/art/321722-3-startrails The brilliant thing about this PS action is that the longest exposure you need to take is 30sec and so it virtually eliminates the noise problem of conventional long exposure startrails. You can imagine how much noise this shot would have as a 30min exposure. / The straight lines are some of 9 planes that flew through these exposures over the half-hour I was taking them – amazingly consistent flight paths. It got so busy I had to delete some of the planetrails, hence the little gaps in the startrails.
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I thought it might be interesting to go back to Garie Lookout and do a startrails version of Wonder Lies Sleeping ‘Neath a Mantle of Light. If you missed the original it’s here: The line running through the bottom left is a plane – couldn’t get rid of it without making a big hole in my startrails. This image is a composite of 51 X 30 second exposures using the brilliant schursastrophotography photoshop action here: http://www.schursastrophotography.com/software/photoshop/startrails.html Also I’ve written a little story to go with it if you haven’t already read it: http://www.redbubble.com/people/geoffcoleman/writing/769745-wonder-lies-sleeping-neath-a-blanket-of-light
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astronomy for the heart
by PJ Ryanstar
image by aglaiab stock used: models / background / stars and moon and a good sprinkle of her own creative magic.
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A globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus, this is a gigantic ball of over a million ancient red stars. Technical details – Canon 400D with 200mm lens, 50×30 second exposures @ ISO1600. Dark subtraction, flat field application, registration, stacking and processing in IRIS. Total exposure time 25 minutes. Here are some examples of my astrophotos as laminated prints
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As is shot of Full Moon, 12/12/08…this Big Winter Moon (Long Nights Moon) is said to invoke muses – the nine daughters of Zues and Mnemosyne whom were each attributed to a different art: epic and heroic poetry, music, lyric and erotic poetry, history, tragedy, sacred poetry and geometry, dance, comedy, and astronomy and astrology. / My muse was certainly invoked with the confirmation of a visit from a Great Gray Owl, who stirred up the dogs and the chickens last night ;) Gemini Moon
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