by iamlucky13 » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:14 pm
gscall20 wrote:This is a well done, beautiful shot. However, the caption says "looking south". Based on my limited backyard experience, Orion rises just a little south of East, which I believe to be more a more accurate description of the direction.
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The image data says it was taken with a 10mm lens on a Canon digital SLR camera. That setup will view an area 107 degrees wide.
However, the wikipedia link has a latitude and longitude. You can put that in Google maps, and if you look around (it's about 1/2 mile off target), you can find the observatory and see that it faces front wall is aligned roughly ESE.
BMAONE23 wrote:What I found interesting is, in the center of the image, just BELOW the horizon (mountain tops), there appears to be a star shining in the distance, in front of the mountains.
Airplanes? There's two similarly toned lights near each other. They may be planes taking off from the same airport. In which case, they must be facing almost exactly at the camera, as there is almost no motion blur.
[quote="gscall20"]This is a well done, beautiful shot. However, the caption says "looking south". Based on my limited backyard experience, Orion rises just a little south of East, which I believe to be more a more accurate description of the direction. :?:[/quote]
The image data says it was taken with a 10mm lens on a Canon digital SLR camera. That setup will view an area 107 degrees wide.
However, the wikipedia link has a latitude and longitude. You can put that in Google maps, and if you look around (it's about 1/2 mile off target), you can find the observatory and see that it faces front wall is aligned roughly ESE.
[quote="BMAONE23"]What I found interesting is, in the center of the image, just BELOW the horizon (mountain tops), there appears to be a star shining in the distance, in front of the mountains.[/quote]
Airplanes? There's two similarly toned lights near each other. They may be planes taking off from the same airport. In which case, they must be facing almost exactly at the camera, as there is almost no motion blur.