September 19th, 2009

Mars and Orion

I looked out my window late last night (early morning) and saw a very nice clear sky full of stars. Amongst that was the constellation Orion (my fav), which I hadn't seen since earlier in the year. Looking at my Starry Night Widget it affirmed what I thought was Mars was it.

Not a super amazing photo or anything, a bit grainy due to the highest ISO setting because its hard to shoot dark stuff (long exposures) with my shaky hands. :P

...and I'm not liking how Flickr doesn't allow my free account larger scale images, It resizes them down far too much.

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Posted 4 months ago by SorvatS
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Tagged im, talking, space and bitches

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Jimmerz

Cutz

#1 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I can tell which is the North Star and that's about it. I think I used to know Orion's Belt and one of the dippers, that's the extent of my knowledge of heavenly bodies. Oh, and the moon. ... And the sun.

EmThree

#2 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
You should have drawn Orion out with Paint. Like the entire dude with the sword and everything. I just called Orion a dude. Huh. Huh. Cooool.

maverickgtr

#3 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Cool [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Nice tag. I liked my astro class and lab. The night labs were so much fun and we saw so many cool things on the hooge telescopes...

evil_sven

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#4 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Zing! [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
LOL Uranus. somebody had to say it.

SorvatS

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#5 Posted 4 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ]
In reply to EmThree, #2: heh, I actually thought about drawing that. In reply to maverickgtr, #3: I wish the astro class I took had a night lab. Can't be done at my school I'm sure in the city. But at least I can say I took a class taught by Michio Kaku. :)

spikep

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#6 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Cool [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
i appreciate for the labeling Lol

Kay0s24

#7 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Cool [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Nice shot! Especially w/o a tripod.

foehammer27

28 December

I really do miss having Starry Night Pro on my dad's desktop.... It was good times with our old 6" refractor dinosaur on the Alt-Azi mount scanning the sky. But that was nothing compared to going out to the South Dakota Badlands with the scope and a notepad, though. What light pollution?

I really want to go all out when I get a new DSLR. I've been looking for a mount that will allow the use of a Ritchey-Chretien as a lens for a 5D Mk2.

Post edited 9/20/09 3:04AM

JasonThePink

DirtyWater

#9 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I can see Pluto in your pics too. It is still a planet in my own world too.

kokopelli73

thx darling

#10 Posted 4 months ago	+ 1 Ditto [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
I do love star gazing - it's nice to get out of the city to do so though.

Wolfmother

#11 Posted 3 months ago	+ 1 Cool [ Reply ] [ Quote ]
Super cool. I'd like to get into this kind of thing, as I'm sure my daughter would find it interesting in a few years.

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