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2008: A Space Oddity
…reenacted with Erik as ape model and Victor1 with the second camera firing off the flash seven times
24 responses to “Ascent of Rocketeer”
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The Milky Way shows up great, no light pollution for Erik to fight with. And a wonderful application of 52 seconds of exposure.
This isn’t a picture, it’s painting with light.
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That sky reminds me of when I’d go out on the fishing vessel the Mathew-Mark with my surrogate grandfather… No shore in sight, no lights, no buzz of humanity – just the hum of a diesel engine, the smell of the ocean and more stars than you can possibly comprehend… oh, I miss that sky! What an amazing image!
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thanks y’all.
heet_myser in Notes: ’tis the glow of Gerlach methinks.
The star gazing there is amazing. We stayed up until 1am just observing the stars and goofing around with the camera and wine. Here is a cool comment with illustrations by an exo-planet hunter on a more detailed shot I took last year:
"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."
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Damn! After being entertained/amazed by your flickr stream for years, I can say without hesitation that this time you’ve outdone yourself. This piece is not only great aesthetically but also in its ability to tell a story. It’s very Maxfield Parrish but with a techie slant.
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Love this photo! Hard to believe, but some of the kids I teach have never seen a truly ‘starry sky’ !
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Exquisite view of the night sky and the "little magician" in the bottom gives it the quality of a child’s book to read. Wonderful! A bedtime fairy tale of magic!
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the Milky Way like that looks like a spatial san andreas fault…
…now wondering if perhaps galaxies are spatial faults of the universe where a lot of stars and gas (like sediments in geological faults) gather together for the fault’s inherent structure, function and activity….
May galaxies be the juxtapositions of tectonic plates of dark mater? (and I DID take my pills today!! 😀 )
Yet another fractal universe is this we live in… |-)
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Alieness: the pills must help with the visual synaesthesia/cross talk!
What a cool association. Fractal forms everywhere… begging the question of common dynamics…
When galaxies collide…
Happens all the time… and reminds me of one of the cool things I learned this year reading bedtime books for my son; the relative density of stars and galaxies is opposite of what I had thought:
"Few stars ever experience a collision, whereas few large galaxies escape one. In our part of the Milky Way, stars are so far apart that they never collide: shrink the Sun to the size of a quarter and on the same scale the nearest star would be four hundred miles away. But shrink the Milky Way’s disk to the size of a quarter and its nearest large neighbor, Andromeda, would be just a foot and a half away, and the Milky Way’s satellites mere inches away. No wonder, then, that galaxies frequently bump into one another."
– Magnificent Universe, p.156. -
It’s taking me some time to figure out those galactic distances and stars/galaxies density (~inverse) proportion…
Even difficult for aliens.. |-)
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