Great photo, Mitch!
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| Posted by on January 17, 2007 | |
Wow! Very cool Mitch...great idea and perfectly executed! How long was the exposure?
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| Posted by Pete Lerro on January 17, 2007 | |
You cant see that in our neck of the woods. Cool shot. Wish I could of went with yea.
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Awesome stars and shot Mitch!!!!
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Vincent (Starry Starry night)...words and music by Don McClean, 1972 you can't fool this old DJ..
Nice shot Mitch...
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Great shot. I bet it was clear and cold that night.
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Very nice Mitch!!
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Someone actually knows how to use a flash at night!!!!!! Wow.........great job Mitch!
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Awesome shot Mitch, it's like one of those BAM right in your face shots that others don't expect ! Keep it up.
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Hohohohoho! Awesome!
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Mitch, excellent compositionn and you even got the Pleiades too!
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| Posted by Bob Avery on January 18, 2007 | |
Stunningly original.
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Thanks for all the kind compliments, much appreciated!
And a special thanks for Michael for pointing out the Pleiades cluster;
The Pleiades are a prominent sight in the Northern Hemisphere in winter and in the Southern Hemisphere in summer, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world. Some Greek astronomers considered them to be a distinct constellation, and they are mentioned by Hesiod, and in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. They are also mentioned three times in the Bible.
They have long been known to be a physically related group of stars rather than any chance alignment. When studies were first made of the stars' proper motions, it was found that they are all moving in the same direction across the sky, at the same rate, further demonstrating that they were related. The cluster is about 12 light years in diameter and contains approximately 500 stars in total. It is dominated by young, hot blue stars, up to 14 of which can be seen with the naked eye depending on local observing conditions.
Under ideal observing conditions, some hint of nebulosity may be seen around the cluster, and this shows up in long-exposure photographs. It is a reflection nebula, caused by dust reflecting the blue light of the hot, young stars.
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| Posted by Martin K. O'Toole on January 20, 2007 | |
Ah, the lengths that some will "Gogh" for a photo. Stunning shot!
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Great job Mitch~ We had fun with you. Hope you come back soon!
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Very unique idea!
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Fabulous light.
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When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought that was snow! Absolutely incredible shot, Mitch.
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Love it. It has a close encounters of the third kind feeling to it. Deano
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