Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video) The Orionid Meteor Shower this year was a bit of a dud. I was shooting up at 11,000 feet in the White Mountains and ran my camera for about 4 hours, from 10:40pm Friday until 2:50am, well after the moon came up. To see how a much more active meteor shower looks, here's one of my Perseid Meteor Shower videos from the same location, displayed on the Discover Magazine blog, best viewed full screen: Perseids, Writ Large http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/ I have a number of posts on my blog www.MyPhotoGuides.com * related to night shooting and timelapse videos. Here's one of the more recent ones building on those pasts posts: Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html I'm curious to see how an HD 720P video gets displayed on G+. I have a ton of timelapse footage that I haven't foun...
Jared Mysko Did I miss something, who said "back side"? What's amazing is that the side of the moon not directly illuminated by the sun (which we are looking at here) becomes fairly bright, due to earthshine!
ReplyDeleteJared Mysko I´m not sure if I understood you when you mentioned the Pacific Ocean in this context? :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, he mentioned the night side. And thats the side not illuminated... Which does rotate every 28 days.
ReplyDeleteSemantic twists: "Dark side of the moon", certainly since Pink Floyd, has become to be understood as the "back side". We think of sides of circular shapes as front and back, like a coin, even though there is really no "side" whatsoever to a sphere. Dark 'area' might have not elicited that comment, but not nearly as button-pushing as 'dark side'. :)
ReplyDeleteI once did a piece of music called "Dark Side of the Sun", in a reference and further twist of the concept of 'dark side of the moon'.
Fantastic image !
how did you do it?
ReplyDelete詹姆斯邦德 wow ... Chinese character set names are very difficult to address using "+" ! ( I had to copy and paste the characters ). That shot of the moon is a long exposure of the moon illuminated by 'Earth shine' -- the light reflected from the Earth which faintly illuminates 'the dark side of the moon' (as it faces us between the Earth and the Sun )
ReplyDeleteOh My God!You are an astronomer
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ReplyDeleteAnother fantastic photo - ignore the critics!
ReplyDeletethis is something realllly amazing
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