And it’s something quite peculiar, Something shimmering and white. Leads you here despite your destination, Under the Milky Way tonight
► The Church ♫ ♪
118 responses to “Under the Milky Way”
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Oh goodness… WOW!!! *blink blink*
I can see my home there, cool! 0-)Here, the song to go with sucha wonder…
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thanks y’all and especially Alieness for the SETI audio feed!
Todd: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, a magical place far away from everything… which is good for night shots, and rockets
No tracker. Just a tripod and long exposure with a 16mm lens, wide open at f2.8 and ISO800. I also tried some light painting of the 84" satcom dish Tom brought out, but I did not like how they came out. Next time, I will try the 8mm fish-eye lens.
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Absolutely stunning. What a great shot. The colors and clarity are truly amazing. Great job!!
I have faved and tagged your picture with BRAVO and this serves as an invitation to The Best: BRAVO.
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Damn light pollution!!! I don’t think most young kids realize the amazing sight our sky provides because they are raised where the light pollution is obliterating this kind of magnificence!
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Nice.
The dark sky applet shows that Black Rock Desert is in one of the least light-polluted parts of the United States.
It’s eerie to think that the 3-million solar mass black hole lurking in the center of the galaxy is just to the right of the bright star cloud in your photo near the boundary between Sagittarius and Scorpius.
The photo also shows Jupiter within a few degrees of Antares — a nice illustration of the fact that Jupiter appears slightly brighter than the brightest stars.
Newton used this similarity in apparent brightness to get the first ball park estimate of the distance to the stars. He assumed that the stars are similar in brightness to the sun, and assumed that Jupiter (whose distance he knew) is a perfect reflector of sunlight… -
One day I hope to get far away enough from the city to be able to see a proper night sky like that…
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wow, couple of hours off and see all this thread… what a great input, greg.
I blogged this pic and mentioned that my planet is one of the stars at the bottom right corner… Just around where you crop the detail, near Jupiter, you precisely spotted my way home!
Awesome shot, awesome post. Kuddos, jurvey. 0-))
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Wonderful!
It makes you envy people who lived one or more centuries ago.
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Lovely. I miss My Own Personal Infinite Void. Sometimes it is nice to sit there and get lost in the cosmic expanse and remember you are a very very very very very very small chunk of matter.
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unbelievable …out of this world… fantastic photo!!! Thank you for this photo. It keeps me in the "know" about our universe and the stars. Love it.
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lovely…did you do any with a longer shutter speed? i love the light from Las Vegas that you can see. beautful shot!
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Yes, and you get a wonderful rotational blur around Polaris. I meant to bring my Russian armored car fish-eye lens
to capture a the entire sky with rotation. But that will have to wait until my next trip in Sept.
I think the lights are from the little town of Fernley, about 90 miles to the South. Because we needed a large splash zone for the rockets, we were deep in the desert, quite a bit North of the Burning Man site.
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It’s wonderful to see that your photo is striking a chord.
The utter blackness of the mountainous horizon really stirred my memory of the moonless July Nevada sky. I’ve put up a post with your photo and more comments at http://www.oklo.org/.
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called The Coolest Damn Photographers in the World, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
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This is awesome!
This inspires me to click such shots! (EXIF Data helps!!)
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called My best nature photos, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
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This photo brings back memories. I used to see the sky and its billions of stars just like that, maybe even clearer, on moonless nights, in one of the great cities of Europe.
This was during total blackout, during World War 2. No light pollution was allowed, not even a match. Street signs and curbs were painted with phosphorous paint, like a watch dial. The cars, that were allowed to drive, had one very, very dim downward pointing light with white painted bumpers and fender edges. All house windows and doors had their cracks blacked out. To open a door you turned out the room lights. The only lights were the stars and our milky way.
I looked at the sky with wonder and it felt like living in the times before electricity was invented. Then a thousand bombers came, set fire to the city and you could not see the sky or the sun, for many days….
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TJ This is a most fascinating and interesting account of your experiences in a very sad time. Your life must have been a mixture of the joys of youth and the fear of terrifying and gloomy days. I always look at the sky with wonder so I understand how you sought to find the beauty and awe that the milky way brought in your life in those days. I enjoyed this story.
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