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#13140963 - 09/02/10 11:09 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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A True Image from False Kiva
This digital mosaic shows the night sky as seen from False Kiva in Canyonlands National Park, eastern Utah, USA. Diving into the Earth far in the distance is part of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Much closer, the planet Jupiter is visible as the bright point just to band's left. Closer still are the park's picturesque buttes and mesas lit by a crescent moon. In the foreground is the cave housing a stone circle of unknown origin named False Kiva. The cave itself was briefly lit by flashlight during the exposure. Astrophotographer Wally Pacholka reports that getting to the cave was no easy trek. Also, mountain lions were a concern while waiting alone in the dark to record the mosaic.
Photo credit/copyright: Wally Pacholka
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Edited by thelegend0210 (09/02/10 11:19 PM)
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#13141042 - 09/02/10 11:25 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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thats a real pic?
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thoughts]
#13141058 - 09/02/10 11:31 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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It is, here is the photographers website.http://www.astropics.com/
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13141075 - 09/02/10 11:34 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow, Utah is good for something?
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13141522 - 09/03/10 03:22 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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awesome pics on that site. i especially like this one
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: wrestler_az]
#13141780 - 09/03/10 06:34 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Those pictures are
I'll try to find the link to an article I seen a few weeks ago and post it.
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#13141783 - 09/03/10 06:37 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow, this makes me want to travel to Utah.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: Drchemist]
#13144058 - 09/03/10 06:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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A Milky Way backdrop to a stunning display of Bioluminescence.
Taken on the 1st January 2009, from Camp Cooinda on Banksia Peninsula on the Gippsland Lakes in eastern Victoria. Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism, Algae in this case. http://www.philhart.com/gallery/Astrophotography/Phenomena/
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13144071 - 09/03/10 06:38 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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The first pic in unreal. Very nice.
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#13144073 - 09/03/10 06:38 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13144075 - 09/03/10 06:39 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Those pictures are beautiful.
I love stargazing, I do it about every night.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: potatos]
#13144085 - 09/03/10 06:43 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Star gazing is one of my favorite things to do as well.
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#13144088 - 09/03/10 06:44 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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x Ju x said: Star gazing is one of my favorite things to do as well.
Trampoline + Bowls =
Trampoline + Bowls + Stargazing.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: x Ju x]
#13144094 - 09/03/10 06:46 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Amazing pictures. Good post
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#13144141 - 09/03/10 07:00 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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potatos said:
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x Ju x said: Star gazing is one of my favorite things to do as well.
Trampoline + Bowls =
Trampoline + Bowls + Stargazing.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: potatos]
#13144225 - 09/03/10 07:19 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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awesome, i cant wait to get my dslr next week to try taking something like that, anyone know what exposure time the guy uses?
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: kintos]
#13144246 - 09/03/10 07:22 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've been using my canon powershot to take some macro photos and they're all coming out decent
Surprisingly good lens for a stock camera
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#13144248 - 09/03/10 07:22 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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How come the sky never looks like that for me
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: twighead]
#13144298 - 09/03/10 07:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
twighead said: How come the sky never looks like that for me
Cause more often then not, astro-photographers use long exposure settings and mulitple photos combined to capture more light. The human just isn't as powerful.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13144327 - 09/03/10 07:41 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I want to get into Astro-photography myself, but don't have a nice camera yet. Here's a couple shots I took with my little digital.
Moon, Venus & very faint Mercury
The Moon through my telescope without a filter.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13144552 - 09/03/10 08:45 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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somebody turn off all those lights damnit
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13145217 - 09/03/10 11:35 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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thelegend0210 said: It is, here is the photographers website.http://www.astropics.com/
There's a lot of different camera filters being used and a little shopping. astronomy.com has a photography sub-forum, some of the people there might know how to take a photo like this.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: sirhotalot]
#13145226 - 09/03/10 11:39 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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That shits awesome. Hoping to get into the NPS so I can stare at that all night. Here is another good one:
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#13145321 - 09/04/10 12:13 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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A True Image from False Kiva
This digital mosaic shows the night sky as seen from False Kiva in Canyonlands National Park, eastern Utah, USA. Diving into the Earth far in the distance is part of the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Much closer, the planet Jupiter is visible as the bright point just to band's left. Closer still are the park's picturesque buttes and mesas lit by a crescent moon. In the foreground is the cave housing a stone circle of unknown origin named False Kiva. The cave itself was briefly lit by flashlight during the exposure. Astrophotographer Wally Pacholka reports that getting to the cave was no easy trek. Also, mountain lions were a concern while waiting alone in the dark to record the mosaic.
Photo credit/copyright: Wally Pacholka
Holy shit that is amazing.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13145375 - 09/04/10 12:35 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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thelegend0210 said:
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twighead said: How come the sky never looks like that for me
Cause more often then not, astro-photographers use long exposure settings and mulitple photos combined to capture more light. The human just isn't as powerful.
...and you are probably in an area with at least a little light pollution. You have to be FAR away from major cities to get this kind of display.
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#13145380 - 09/04/10 12:38 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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c0sm0, thanks for my new background
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: fazdazzle]
#13145419 - 09/04/10 01:02 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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There is a bit of light pollution out here, nothing big, I'm 20 minutes out of a 7,000 person town. But yeah I figured they used special filters/long exposure to get those kinds of shots, it would be spectacular if the night sky simply looked like that Not that the bare eye doesn't unveil an amazing display of its own.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: twighead]
#13145479 - 09/04/10 01:27 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Has anybody seen a fundamentalist christian making note of how amazing that picture is? ...don't worry I'll wait.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: Frost]
#13145510 - 09/04/10 01:45 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Haha, nope, But they always like to tell everyone how amazing God is when they see these kinds of pics.
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#13145609 - 09/04/10 03:05 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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You guys have probably seen these already, but i figured they were very fitting for this thread...
Videos and pictures like these, other than staring up at the stars at night, really puts things into perspective..
We're all on this tiny, spinning, floating rock
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: openmind]
#13146559 - 09/04/10 11:28 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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And for today's
A dark starry night of Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean. The two brightest stars of our night sky, Sirius and Canopus, shines besides a galactic dwarf neighbor, Large Magellanic Cloud, some 160,000 light years away. The Easter Island's large statutes, or locally called Moais, remained from 13th to 15th century.
Photo credit: Stephane Guisard
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: Drchemist]
#13146582 - 09/04/10 11:35 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Drchemist said: Wow, this makes me want to travel to Utah.
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: fungus_tao]
#13161126 - 09/07/10 05:50 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ancient Moonrise
The crescent Moon rises in the middle of Poseidon Temple at Sounio, Greece. See also, Saturn on the left, 'sitting' on the pillar. Photo credit: Chris Kotsiopoulos Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi, 13/11/2009 4:12 - 4:17, Shutter Speed 20 sec x 11 shots, Aperture Value 2.2, ISO 800, Lens Canon EF28mm f/1.8 USM, Focal Length 28.0 mm
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Re: Awesome pic of the day(Stargazing) [Re: thelegend0210]
#13201783 - 09/15/10 10:02 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Equinox Auroras
Last night, the sun's magnetic field near Earth tipped south. This opened a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in and fueled a magnificent display of arctic Northern Lights.
Thilo Bubek took the picture not far from Tromsø, Norway. "We had some nice auroras," he says, with what can only be described as Norwegian understatement. "The clouds and calm sea contributed to a photogenic scene."This is the time of year when south-pointing magnetic fields from the sun frequently puncture our bubble of protection against the solar wind. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for equinox auroras
Photo credit: Thilo Bubek http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/images2010/14sep10/Thilo-Bubek1.jpg?PHPSESSID=3780t80lvjlljaofhv9j07ljf1
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