fantastic result and effort. Actually it is interesting to note that Alan Meehan caught a bit of this last night as well - he has a shot showing something starting - he has three trailing satellite streaks with a bright flash, and a big streak starting in one frame he took last night. Showed me this morning - we did suspect it could have been the jules verne will definitely have to get him to see this post and put up what he caught. What a spectacular result Doug - APOD for sure!!!
The focus on the rocket trail is a bit soft, also it looks a little red, perhaps reduce the length of exposure next time to minimise the flaring of the space junk across the screen. I have seen better from you, its a bit disappointing to see some mediocre work and post processing such as this. I told you last time regarding your very poor capture of MIR breaking up over the Pacific how lacklustre the picture seemed and it seems this time you just havent "felt" the moment like I know you can. Maybe next time you can increase the field of view and perhaps tweak the curve slightly to really bring out the best in the shot.
Sorry if anyone thought that was real, I was just being a w&nker. , its what i do.
Well done Doug, couldnt have planned it better. Its a pity to ruin such a good background with space junk passing, but you probably wont get another one like that, one in a million!
The focus on the rocket trail is a bit soft, also it looks a little red, perhaps reduce the length of exposure next time to minimise the flaring of the space junk across the screen. I have seen better from you, its a bit disappointing to see some mediocre work and post processing such as this. I told you last time regarding your very poor capture of MIR breaking up over the Pacific how lacklustre the picture seemed and it seems this time you just havent "felt" the moment like I know you can. Maybe next time you can increase the field of view and perhaps tweak the curve slightly to really bring out the best in the shot.
Sorry if anyone thought that was real, I was just being a w&nker. , its what i do.
Well done Doug, couldnt have planned it better. Its a pity to ruin such a good background with space junk passing, but you probably wont get another one like that, one in a million!
Cheers Ash,
Is digg.com a big deal - I'm such an out-of-touch old fart!
Is it popular with the youngsters these days!!!???
Well the site used to be more technology-oriented but now has attracted younglings and now contains links/articles to technology, politics, images, etc and other non-tech stuff for a sensationalist impact. While the quality of the site varies from time to time, if you get on the front page you get an insane exposure .. so many people will see it. So yeah pretty good effort.
Will be interesting to see if it hits slashdot, a much more mature and tech-oriented site. Plenty of actual scientists (and not kids ) frequent and post there .. it's fairly common to have particle physicists from CERN, scientists and engineers from JPL, etc post regularly in relevant threads.
Hey Doug that image is certainly one for APOD or AS&T. Surely must be the only one in existence with the LMC in the background. Hope you're going to submit it
thanks Doug,nice to be in the '' Lucky B " club.no effort here just shear luck,i was only out trying my new w/0 focal reducer for the 100 ed ,using my unmodded 400d when this appeared in my 2nd frame. maybe main trail is thinner due to near zenith not sure .like the sound of the mosaic its weird having differnt background objects.
cheers AL
thanks Doug,nice to be in the '' Lucky B " club.no effort here just shear luck,i was only out trying my new w/0 focal reducer for the 100 ed ,using my unmodded 400d when this appeared in my 2nd frame. maybe main trail is thinner due to near zenith not sure .like the sound of the mosaic its weird having differnt background objects.
cheers AL
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Hi Al
Wouldn't that be something if we could get a mosaic of the trails from zenith to horizon all cutting through well known DSOs!?
Imagers, check your exposures!!
Doug
hey guys send your images to the guys at this link http://atv.seti.org/ they were chasing this thing
The focus on the rocket trail is a bit soft, also it looks a little red, perhaps reduce the length of exposure next time to minimise the flaring of the space junk across the screen. I have seen better from you, its a bit disappointing to see some mediocre work and post processing such as this. I told you last time regarding your very poor capture of MIR breaking up over the Pacific how lacklustre the picture seemed and it seems this time you just havent "felt" the moment like I know you can. Maybe next time you can increase the field of view and perhaps tweak the curve slightly to really bring out the best in the shot.
Sorry if anyone thought that was real, I was just being a w&nker. , its what i do.
Well done Doug, couldnt have planned it better. Its a pity to ruin such a good background with space junk passing, but you probably wont get another one like that, one in a million!
Top stuff.
Cheers
Chris
Congrats Doug, That is a ripper of a chance shot and is really getting out there.
Well done Allan too! I whish I could have a least just seen it let alone imaged it.
