5-15-13 – Farkstronomy 2 – Page 3 – Its not photography, its Farktography

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May 12, 2013 at 4:48 am #50799

linguine
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Is this astrophotography enough? http://www.flickr.com/photos/guine/8110449297/in/set-72157633426364098

May 12, 2013 at 4:57 am #50798

CauseISaidSo
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Is this astrophotography enough? http://www.flickr.com/photos/guine/8110449297/in/set-72157633426364098

orionid will have to answer the specific question, but I can say this – it’s gorgeous!

May 12, 2013 at 3:37 pm #50813

orionid
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Is this astrophotography enough? http://www.flickr.com/photos/guine/8110449297/in/set-72157633426364098

I’ve always wanted this to be as participation friendly as possible, and the stars certainly make the scene. It’s in.

May 12, 2013 at 3:45 pm #50814

linguine
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Thanks guys.

May 12, 2013 at 5:46 pm #50803

nobigdeal
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Are “fake” stars & or planets acceptable?

May 12, 2013 at 6:17 pm #50815

ravnostic
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Already some nice stuff up there. I saw plenty that are better (to me) than what I submitted. Only went with one deep sky object as I’ve learned that I need a smaller telescope, or a viewing site above a substantial amount of the earth’s atmosphere. Seeing kills me every time; there is no getting around the 1/2 arc second seeing limit near sea level and I just don’t have a wide enough FOV to not make it plainly evident that the stars look like balls of light when they should look like pin pricks when images are recorded in minutes and not microseconds.

//oh well. Hopefully the ISS will do alright. I figured an inset wouldn’t be kosher so I linked to one with it as I think the ISS detail was pretty good in the shot.

May 13, 2013 at 10:53 am #50816

orionid
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Are “fake” stars & or planets acceptable?

Yar.

May 15, 2013 at 1:58 am #50817

emiliogtz
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Okay, so I went with the lowest hanging fruit, which at least for me wasn’t so low after all. That place where I took those pictures is just awesome, but quite isolated, and somewhat tricky to get at.

May 15, 2013 at 12:42 pm #50818

Pope_Larry_II
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Already some nice stuff up there. I saw plenty that are better (to me) than what I submitted. [snip]

//oh well. Hopefully the ISS will do alright. I figured an inset wouldn’t be kosher so I linked to one with it as I think the ISS detail was pretty good in the shot.

I have to disagree, I think your shots are awesome!

May 15, 2013 at 11:54 pm #50819

ravnostic
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:o) Pope

May 16, 2013 at 7:05 am #50820

Kestrana
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Well I was going to submit this shot I took specifically for this contest last year, but I see orionid has already submitted his similar shot. So I’ll just post it here and return to my cave. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kestrana/8018472744/in/set-72157631554440038

May 16, 2013 at 3:48 pm #50821

chupathingie
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That must be a popular spot for pics of the lake! LOL You two could have been side-by-side from the looks of the perspective!

May 16, 2013 at 3:50 pm #50822

chupathingie
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Okay, so I went with the lowest hanging fruit, which at least for me wasn’t so low after all. That place where I took those pictures is just awesome, but quite isolated, and somewhat tricky to get at.

Those shots are beautiful. Gotta ask, is the foreground lighting natural or did you have a lantern with you?

May 16, 2013 at 4:48 pm #50823

orionid
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That must be a popular spot for pics of the lake! LOL You two could have been side-by-side from the looks of the perspective!

We were.

May 16, 2013 at 5:41 pm #50824

Yugoboy
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One benefit of only posting 2 entries is that when you’re getting your ass handed to you by people with far better stuff, it’s a third less disappointing/crushing.
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