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Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
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Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 1:52 am (This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 2:43 am by orogenicman.)
I took this image in August, 2010. It was my first attempt at a long exposure widefield image of a part of the Milky Way. This photo was taken with my Hutech modified Canon T1i using the standard 18-55mm lens, set at 55mm, f5. The image is a stack of 12 x 3 minute exposures for a total of 36 minutes exposure. I didn't work on this for a long time because I hated the result, but have since figured out how to get a better result. Still, it isnt as good as it could be. I had fog roll in (which is the milky streaks you see in the image), and the lens isn't a very good one, as it doesn't focus as well as you'd expect from such an expensive camera, it has vignetting, and is not a flat field. But for my first widefield long exposure of the Milky Way, I think I could have done a lot worse. Anyway, here it is for your amusement/enjoyment:

[Image: cygnus-1.jpg]
Cygnus Region Of The Milky Way, as seen from Taylorsville Lake, Kentucky
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RE: Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 1:54 am
... still a really cool photograph.
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RE: Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 2:27 am
You know, Oro, I look at that picture and it rams home the fact that if the nut jobs really believe in a god who made life here only that he would have to be one wasteful son of a bitch.
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RE: Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 2:31 am (This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 2:33 am by orogenicman.)
(December 28, 2011 at 2:27 am)Minimalist Wrote: You know, Oro, I look at that picture and it rams home the fact that if the nut jobs really believe in a god who made life here only that he would have to be one wasteful son of a bitch.

Well, like Carl Sagan said, if it is just us, it is an awful waste of space. And this image is just the Cygnus/Vulpecula region of the Milky way. It does include the region that the Kepler Space probe is looking at trying to find exo-planets.

[Image: kepler_fov.jpg]
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RE: Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 2:33 am
Quote:Well, like Carl Sagan said, if it is just us, it is an awful waste of space.


Amen to that.



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RE: Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 3:38 am (This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 3:40 am by Welsh cake.)
Its better than anything I could manage. Clap


(December 28, 2011 at 2:27 am)Minimalist Wrote: You know, Oro, I look at that picture and it rams home the fact that if the nut jobs really believe in a god who made life here only that he would have to be one wasteful son of a bitch.
The same arsehole deity who put all our natural resources such as coal, limestone and tin deep underground so we'd have no choice but to risk our one-and-only lives trying to mine it to the surface just to survive?

The same cosmic cunt who made us so ridiculously infinitesimal that we feel nauseous with the apprehension that we really don't matter whenever we stare up at the vast cosmos?

The same creator that rendered life meaningless with the certainty of death?

If God exists, he's either a buffoon or omnimalevolent.
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