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Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the Very Large Telescope
December 28, 2011 at 2:26 am
Awesome video.
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RE: Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the Very Large Telescope
December 28, 2011 at 3:24 am
So many stars, and yet, all I can see outside my bedroom window at 7 in the morning is a black empty void.
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RE: Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the Very Large Telescope
December 28, 2011 at 6:53 am
Ya know ...
The Aztec and Mayan cultures had constellations named after the "blank bits" in the skies ...there were just SO MANY FUCKING STARS!!
Very impressive Orogenicman!!
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RE: Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the Very Large Telescope
December 28, 2011 at 9:30 am
Thanks folks. I can imagine what you experienced down there by Perth, Zen. I once had a similar eye-opening experience at Arches National Park, in Utah.
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- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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RE: Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the Very Large Telescope
December 28, 2011 at 9:32 am
Honey ...Orogenicman...do you have any star pics of Orion and Taurus together??
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RE: Timelapse: Cerro Paranal Skies Above the Very Large Telescope
December 28, 2011 at 11:20 am
(December 28, 2011 at 9:32 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Honey ...Orogenicman...do you have any star pics of Orion and Taurus together??
I've taken pictures of them before, but don't currently have any. I have taken pictures of specific features within both Orion and Taurus, such as the Horsehead Nebula region, the Orion Nebula, NGC 1999, and M1 (the crab Nebula).
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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