Starship Asterisk*

Perhaps I should have injected "an off-the-shelf". Nice shot Chris.

I cracked up laughing at the writer calling a 4x5 Speed Graphic a "point and shoot" camera. I suppose the news photographers of the time who used Speed Graphics could be thought of that way. They really did "point" them and "shoot". But there was a lot of experience an...

You can't do THAT with digital.

Why does it look like this crater is raised up above the adjacent surface instead of cut down into the surface? That's what I was thinking. Even when I rotated the image 180º, it still looked like a raised plateau instead of a crater. It wasn't until I looked a slightly different images of the crat...

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Very nice job incorporating many different light sources.

Thank you Chris - that's what I thought. The earth still spins on it's axis, is just where that axis is pointing in space that changes over time. It's like taking a photo of a speeding car with 1/4 second exposure time and being asked to identify the make and model - sort of. (The car is... yellow. ...

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Jarod997 wrote:even if it's a little off

It's not "a little off": it's totally the wrong idea.

Explain - and please, planetary science isn't my first subject - try to use simpler terms.

Ya, ok, the axis of rotation is off, but the idea is right. He's spinning the stars around where Vega is right now, trying to simulate what it would look like in a few thousand years. I still say the photographer gets points for creativity - I think the image is really well done, even if it's a litt...

I wonder, are they using a 2" eye piece? I've only ever seen one of those once, and also had the chance to look through the telescope -- in the store.

I don't respond here often, but this image is very cool. If there is one thing I'd critique is that the stars were a bit shaky. Other than that, i like the detail and colours in the Milky Way, the blue in the algae and the background is a good composition of light and dark and well saturated in colo...