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Sky full of stars!
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| RenderedDream |
I was browsing APOD and this particular image caught my attention
FULL IMAGE
i've never seen a sky so bright and so starred like that!
is it city lights that block that light? (i'm in the country so it's rather dark..) |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
That looks like our Milky Way. That light from each and every dot is hundreds of thousands of years old - it's just now reaching your eye whenever you look up at the night sky. I'm guessing this was taken at a really high observatory (think Keck in Hawaii or possibly even Mt. Palomar) but it was most likely taken through Hubble, as looking at the stars through our atmosphere seems to lose a lot of radiance due to Earth's X-ray shield and other atmospheric interference. The closest clarity I've seen to this had to be when I was camping in the Rockies one night - I could actually see the International Space Station orbiting and off in the distance were the Northern lights just barely visible. I sometimes see the sky very clearly at night here in the Florida sticks, but nothing quite comparable with the mountains or that picture, of course.
It's amazing to think about, whenever you look into the night sky, the ONLY stars you can see are those in our own Galaxy. It looks like there is an infinite sea of stars, and all you can see is contained within just an infinitesimal portion of our universe.
Amazing. |
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| joshyd |
couple years ago when i was in almost middle of australia, hundreds of km's away from any major town, there was heaps and heaps of stars. not quite as many as in the pic, but a bloody lot. i like in the country now, but only like 140km from Melbourne, can still see lots of stars on a clear night, but not as many.
if u went to the middle of the atlantic ocean, there was be a load of stars!
i think stars are more visible in the southern hemisphere too.. |
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| Nell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
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give this man a medal. It's how replies SHOULD be on this board.
Great pic btw! |
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| N|te-L|fe |
tight!  |
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| Subey |
| My God it's full of stars |
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| goodgreefgirl |
i wish i was able to photograph stars and the like a lot better... but obviously you need the right place, and the right equipent for that..
stars have always been a big thing in my life, and this just makes me realize again why.
the mysteriousness of them, and the size and power is overwhelming. i love it...because i dont understand it. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
it was most likely taken through Hubble |
I don't think so due to the objects on the side of the pic.
I love pics like that... shows how insignificant we really are, and how vast Creation is.
We are not alone. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
I don't think so due to the objects on the side of the pic.
I love pics like that... shows how insignificant we really are, and how vast Creation is.
We are not alone. |
Yeah, I realized that exact same thing when I looked at the picture again right after posting. It's just a damn-fine telescope with a damn-fine lens. Any photography buffs want to fill us in here? Better lenses are those that can capture MORE light...so when you just leave a lense out for a while, it can collect light for longer - this is probably how this pic was made. Somebody just let their telescopic camera collect light for a really long time before actually taking a snapshot. Longer exposure, I guess?
It *is* amazing to think of how much is out there that we just don't know about, but don't we create the cosmos by merely observing them? :tongue2
I don't believe that perception is limited to the 5 senses. As Einstein advocated to a certain degree, imagination is the true purveyor for ultimate awareness - cosmic or otherwise. Who knows what lies beyond the stars? You do, because you have the power to imagine that which is not yet fact. We are thusly creatures that live in the future, for the past is a mere reference and the present is fleeting and ephemeral. You may be a small tear in the rain, but insignificance is just as much a state of mind as omnipotence is. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| I wonder how that would have looked with a time delay. :eyespop: :eyespop: |
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| Philby |
i think the streaks mean a longer exposure, those are stars moving as the picture is taken.
*after looking at the site i think they are actually meteorites
i would recommend doing some sort of basic astronomy at uni, you dont need to get too in depth but its really interesting and you get heaps of photos like that in lectures :)
the difference is amazing when you move away from the city! |
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