“My God, it’s full of stars!”

By Thursday June 16, 2011

Here’s info on the video and his camera rig.



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  1. EJmcn says:
    6/16/2011 at 9:31 pm

    I like this, at this speed gives meaning to Spaceship Earth as you can see things burning up in the atmosphere and how the planet moves.

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  2. ggore says:
    6/17/2011 at 2:28 am

    And some people just can’t seem to understand why there are millions of people who CHOOSE to live in the middle of the country where we get to see things like this every night, and don’t have to risk getting beat over the head & robbed while we are outside with our friends enjoying the view. I have friends who live in New York and LA who claim they have never seen a star. Sad.

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  3. Mr. Fusion says:
    6/17/2011 at 2:46 am

    I’ve tried these shots but where we live there is just too much light pollution.

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  4. Dlbeard says:
    6/17/2011 at 3:18 am

    Title is a quote from 2010. Nice.

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  5. Dave says:
    6/17/2011 at 4:18 am

    #4 – I think from 2001 not 2010. But, ever since the incident with the pod bay doors, my memory has been shot to hell.

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  6. bb says:
    6/17/2011 at 6:00 am

    #5 – Yup, from 2001, but it was 1968. Hmmm, the 60′s, maybe that’s why our memories are all “shot to hell.”

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  7. ReadyKilowatt says:
    6/17/2011 at 7:11 am

    Nice thing about this setup is that is it all open source hardware and software, running on the Arduino platform. Looks like I might have a nice project to go along with my DIY Gigapan setup:

    http://brewzone.com/2008/11/10/diy-pano-head/

    Right now I use it for taking pictures like this:

    http://gigapan.org/gigapans/66440/

    It could easily be modified to pan and tilt along with a rail system. Now if there were only an easy way to turn a zoom ring…

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  8. Dallas says:
    6/17/2011 at 8:39 am

    But what does it mean?

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  9. Yankinwaoz says:
    6/17/2011 at 9:27 am

    #7 did they open that new bridge? Can you walk on it?

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  10. bobbo, the pragmatic libertarian Existentialist says:
    6/17/2011 at 10:10 am

    Hey—astro experts: are all the lights we see in the sky stars or are many/most/some of them galaxies? I know faint smudges are galaxies and you can see them pretty good with low power telescopes==but I mean in that picture heading this thread for instance: “basically” all stars?

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  11. bobbo, not a science guy, but I read a lot says:
    6/17/2011 at 10:13 am

    Whoops–just looking again at the picture–I see a whole lot of “smudge” in the “back bone” of the Milky Way. Hmmmm. Milky Way. Is the smudges/gray-white areas in the picture mostly other solar systems, or stars?/////Ha, ha. I guess that would be stars wouldn’t it? HEY, I said I wasn’t a scientist.

    I’m gonna think what we see is mostly stars with perhaps a few smudges just discernable being other galaxies.

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  12. Rob Leather says:
    6/17/2011 at 10:15 am

    25 years ago I went out into the Sahara Desert (Western Sahara to be more accurate) and had a very similar experience then. The night sky was so utterly clear.

    I’ll never forget how clear the Milky Way appeared.

    Breathtaking.

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  13. The0ne says:
    6/17/2011 at 11:10 am

    Off topic but did anyone observe the Lunar eclipse last night? I couldn’t here in San Diego because of the weather condition (thick clouds). I was hoping to snap a few photos with my 800mm zoom camera :D Oh well, next June!

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  14. The0ne says:
    6/17/2011 at 11:18 am

    In regards to the post it’s a great scene. I’ve never seen anything like it, not that I can remember. But at Mount Palomar here in San Diego you can get a good view of stars and, at the right times with the telescope, be able to view some of the planets. My interest peak in 6th grade when I were allowed to view Saturn and its rings. That was just too cool for a kid like me :)

    Younger than that, we enjoyed going out to the park with every other family in the neighborhood to enjoy fireworks and best of all the stars. There’s nothing better, imo, than lying on the grass staring into fireworks and stars. This was back in Tulsa and when fireworks wasn’t consider too “bad.” :)

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  15. deowll says:
    6/17/2011 at 2:12 pm

    How an anyone look upon the void and think they are lords of the cosmos?

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  16. JimD says:
    6/17/2011 at 2:20 pm

    It’s ALLWAYS BEEN THAT WAY !!! (For how many BILLIONS OF YEARS ???) Industrial Humans have just POLLUTED THE ATMOSPHERE such that you have to leave metropolitan areas to see the sky !!!

    Still both BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME !!!

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  17. bobbo, not a science guy, but I read a lot says:
    6/17/2011 at 3:27 pm

    #15–deowll==because if you just look out there, it appears that “we” are the center of the universe and that the stars were put there for our pleasure.

    On vacation on a sheep ranch in New Zealand–you could read the newspaper by the star light of the Milky Way–brighter than the picture posted shows. I can’t remember if the moon was up or not–that would make a big difference. Remember reading newspapers by moonlight when sailing off the Bahamas.

    Get away from cities, and nature can be impressive.

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  18. ReadyKilowatt says:
    6/17/2011 at 3:58 pm

    #9 Yankinwaoz

    Yep. Been open for almost a year now.

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  19. Hal says:
    6/17/2011 at 4:56 pm

    #5 – Dave “#4 – I think from 2001 not 2010. But, ever since the incident with the pod bay doors, my memory has been shot to hell.”

    Bravo, sir. Simply magnificent.

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  20. The0ne says:
    6/17/2011 at 8:18 pm

    #17

    You actually did that, took the vacation? Man I have to say I’m jealous. I would love to do that sometime during my lifetime. I’ve been visiting and doing business in China for quite a few years now and I have to say I’m very disappointed.

    I’m sure there are some nice places to take photo’s but so many places are polluted it’s not even funny. The water, even out in the mountains and countryside is a green smelly puss color :/ The smog is quite bad as well.

    My last trip was to Fujian and while we did get some good photos it wasn’t as many as we had hope to take for a whole day/night trip.

    http://www.amoymagic.com/fjadv/roundhouses.htm

    And don’t be fool by the beauty of the photo. Next to the beautiful bamboo forest, like in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon scene, lies rows and rows green tea plants. Such beautiful locations ruined because villages get their income from farming green tea. Can’t blame them though. Anyhow…rambling.

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