by Axel » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:31 pm
That is a splendid time-lapse image of the lunar eclipse. If the shots were really taken at 4-minute intervals, the picture can give students an idea of what a degree looks like in the sky. But the great discovery, for me, was Yuichi Takasaka's website (just click on his name under the APOD pic). The man is an aurora freak. Apparently he only learned about aurora in 1990, when he saw strange lights in the sky during a photo shoot and asked someone what they were. Since then he has been shooting them everywhere in western Canada - and taking some glorious landscape photos on the way. Thanks, APOD!
That is a splendid time-lapse image of the lunar eclipse. If the shots were really taken at 4-minute intervals, the picture can give students an idea of what a degree looks like in the sky. But the great discovery, for me, was Yuichi Takasaka's website (just click on his name under the APOD pic). The man is an aurora freak. Apparently he only learned about aurora in 1990, when he saw strange lights in the sky during a photo shoot and asked someone what they were. Since then he has been shooting them everywhere in western Canada - and taking some glorious landscape photos on the way. Thanks, APOD!