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- reliablesoft, on 11/20/2008, -2/+1110 absolutely amazing astrophotos
- GQCarrick, on 11/21/2008, -0/+8I looked at the title and read Phil Hartman.
- xbanned, on 11/20/2008, -2/+6These photos looks like pure magic
- joetek, on 11/20/2008, -2/+5Wow. These look like they’re straight from the Hubble, not off of a DSLR! Spectacular!
- problogger, on 11/20/2008, -2/+5I sat there looking at these shots for ages. Really great images.
- kennyhyder, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4I am always amazed at Pleiades - beautiful.
- sayoshinn, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4You just copy and pasted one of the replies from the blog page itself. Great work joe
- neilcreek, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3Some additional information from a comment on the post by Phil about the equipment he used, in reply to a comment about his "inexpensive equipment":
"Perhaps I should qualify the term ‘relatively inexpensive’! :-)
Three of the photos were taken with a standard Canon 20D and affordable lenses - Comet McNaught and Aurora with the standard kit lens and the Star Trail with a 10-22mm EF-S lens. I also have many other great shots with a 50mm f1.4 lens. The 200mm f2.8 lens used for the last image is more expensive but awesome for astrophotography and daytime work.
The telescope I purchased while working the UK at a discount price, but the combination yields results that were not available at all to amateurs only a decade or so ago. Much more affordable equipment can achieve pretty similar results.. eg Borg line of equipment at http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/
Phil" - philiphart, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2in the old film days, you just stuck a camera on the tripod, set the shutter to BULB, aperture almost wide open and used a cable release to the leave the shutter open for several hours. (the big problem is dew on cold nights and for that you need dew caps).
with digital, you need an electronic cable release to do the same thing, but the shutter will only stay open for as long as the battery lasts, or get a 12V adapter and run it off an external car type battery.
instead of bulb, you can also set the shutter to 30 secs and drive mode to continuous and take a long sequence of 30 second exposure images and then stack them together later (eg with Layers set to Lighten in Photoshop). - inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Heheh I was hoping to find out the specs on his scope not the camera :p
- jboone, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2insert generic blogspam comment here
- nastri83, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Digg has seriously been lacking Top 10's lately. It's good to see them back again.
- shinon, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Am I the only one who at first read this title as Phil Fart?
- suo97119, on 11/21/2008, -1/+35 moons just became my desktop! Dugg.
- sweeneyowns, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1All the space pictures i find get added to a slideshow on my laptop so no matter where i go i can pretend i am in a rocketship viewing unexplored space....
*oh wow i'm a loser* - kellfinder, on 11/20/2008, -2/+3Amazing and beautiful really!
- annavwilliams, on 11/21/2008, -2/+3The pictures are aesthetic and very high quality. I will have to visit your blog more often as I also study photography.
- Lane, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Thanks, Google didnt show any info directly. No idea why diggs comments cant all be constructive. Id love to see a plethora of tips as to how to get such inspiring photos and the length of the dedication that the photographers have gone to.
- RapidEye, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2The Orion Mosiac has to be one of the nicest Astrophoto's I've ever seen - grabbed most of the great Eyecandy fron Orion and managed to stuff it into one photo. The quality and composition of the shots is also exceptional!
One more the Blogger should have added was the Lagoon and Trifid photo - its also _VERY_ Digg worthy: http://www.philhart.com/gallery/Astrophotography/N ... - neilcreek, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I'm sure Phil would be happy to answer your questions if you contacted him via his blog: http://www.philhart.com
- sweeneyowns, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1yeah you didnt get the memo, they switched to top 5 and top 101
- anotherghost, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1Dugg for star trail
- Lane, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1so how do you take the whole stars spinning photo?..
- elizabethb221, on 11/21/2008, -2/+2Me too :(
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -2/+2Beautiful stuff there
- ShiftyBizniss, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1I don't get it.
- mygolfspy, on 11/20/2008, -2/+2Love the first one.
- uberbabyboomer, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1wow - no words - just wow - gorgeous - astounding -
- moomettesgram, on 11/21/2008, -3/+2Very spectacular! Thanks for sharing!
- bamafun, on 11/21/2008, -2/+1amazing pics !
- waynejohn, on 11/21/2008, -3/+1Absolutely amazing space shots
- juliemarg, on 11/21/2008, -3/+1absolutely incredible
- surfingcanuck, on 11/21/2008, -3/+0Spectacular photos.
- kerwood, on 11/21/2008, -3/+0Love these photos.
- oranse, on 11/21/2008, -3/+0Well done.
- mayavmadon, on 11/21/2008, -3/+0Nice pictures!
- bzijian, on 11/21/2008, -3/+0Beautiful photos, quite nice looking.
- kissakiman, on 11/21/2008, -4/+0Wow, that are really amazing pics! Check these.
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