You are 10 days late! LOL This has already been resolved, but his camera didn't move, if he had tracked the sky, then the stationary earth objects would have streaked, not the stars :)
These days, low end scopes even have tracking on them, its pretty cool stuff. Charles On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Chris Vreeland <[email protected]> wrote: > I know I'm 10 days late on this, but they do make mounts for telescopes that > once properly set, can track across the sky in time with the earth's > rotation for hours. I have a good friend who has one, and he's able o take > very clear pictures with no streaking, once the tripod is set up right. > Could be dicey in a cave, as a lot of them use GPS these days, but it's > possible that he had the camera mounted to one of these motorized tripods to > track the sky for the needed length of time to properly expose the stars, > then set off a single flash to light the cave at the end. Or maybe I'm a > credulous fool, ready to believe anything I'm told by the Elite Scientist. > One of the two. > > CV > > On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Stefan Creaser wrote: > >> While it seems to be a beautiful photo I'm not actually enjoying it coz >> it looks false... >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nancy Weaver [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:52 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Texascavers] photo >> >> It seems so sad to me that such a drop dead gorgeous photo should be >> dissected in terms of how it was taken. Is anyone just enjoying it? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are >> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended >> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the >> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the >> information in any medium. Thank you. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
