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- Brocclibob, on 06/28/2008, -2/+16It's sad that i live in Australia, but have never gone there.
I'm so driving there sometime in the future.
Kudos to the photographer, its a great shot. - AMSRay, on 06/28/2008, -2/+10Luck was the meteor strike happening while he was there. His skill is why we're looking at such a clear, beautiful image instead of a dark, blurry glow on the horizon. If you do your preparation every time and study your subject learn the proper use of your equipment you will be amazed at how many "lucky" shots you'll make.
I''m just an amateur. Mad props to the skills of this photographer. - TheJimid, on 06/28/2008, -1/+5copper burns green
- cgruber, on 06/28/2008, -0/+4...and I thought I was too old to be posting here.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 06/28/2008, -1/+5Wow what a fantastic website! And your title image is totally NOT hideously ugly. Curved rainbow text, I thought that had died out in the mid 1990's but you manage to get it looking good! I especially love the yellow text on the yellow background in the title image, anyone who tells you that's impossible to read is lying! And bright green articles on the page, so cool!
Look at that blog description in the side, it's only 12 lines long, thanks for keeping it condensed!
That explains why you've had so many visitors, 213! Well done! Keep up the good work and maybe by August you'll have 400 visitors!!! - dadavexx, on 06/28/2008, -1/+4What a fantastic view of the reality of the Planet Earth that only exists in a few places.
I remember as a kid in the 30s and 40s - the night sky over Texas looking similar.
Tis long ago and far away now. - macosta5811, on 06/28/2008, -3/+5What a lucky man!
- ghm101, on 06/28/2008, -2/+4I lived there for a bit, there are that many stars, one of the things that your really remember about the place.
- Sponky, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2Shorter wavelengths are absorbed by dust particles in the air, you are looking through more air (and more dust) closer to the horizon, giving light a reddish (longer wavelength) hue.
Yellow = green + red. - harlowsmonkeys, on 06/28/2008, -0/+2But does he have white horses, and ladies by the score, all dressed in satin, and waiting by the door?
- biddie67, on 06/28/2008, -1/+2What minerals/elements would give the green color?
- 6502programmer, on 06/28/2008, -1/+2Dude, Ayer's Rock is not the preferred nomenclature, uhh, Uluru, please.
- vatx, on 06/28/2008, -2/+3I am interested to know what the green and yellow are from. Is that a function of the atmosphere or the minerals or elements within the rock burning off? Or is it from the camera?
- orangekid13, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1follow trajectory
dig up meteor or fragments
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retire very early - qster, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1I wish I could see that many stars from my home
- silfiriel, on 06/28/2008, -2/+3you do realize that I was only jocking? I hope you do...
- jerbaker, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1If the smears were due to the earth's motion or rotation, the smears would all be aligned in one direction opposite the direction of travel. Since they are all pointing away from the center of the photograph, it's fair to say that the optics are to blame. The picture is not in focus either as you'll notice by looking at the silhouette of Ayer's Rock. Not a critique, just an observation. That would certainly contribute to the smearing.
- Sponky, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Yep definitely poor or uncollimated optics, you can tell by the chromatic aberration (blue halos) and the coma (comet shape) of the blurring.
Still, it's a great shot when reduced to hide these effects. - jerbaker, on 06/28/2008, -1/+2The composition and subject of the photograph are outstanding. Looking at the full-size original, I was struck at how badly this poor guy's optics performed. As you move away from the center of the frame, the stars are smeared. The direction of the smear always points to the center of the frame, and the smears get longer the further away from the center the star is. At the edges, each star looks like a little comet. There's no EXIF info to see what camera and lens was used.
Did anyone else notice that the fireball passed in front of the upper clouds and behind the lower? - jerbaker, on 06/28/2008, -2/+3Were you skimming to jock?
- biddie67, on 06/28/2008, -0/+1I just realized that the green is in the upper area of the meteor's path and the yellow is in the lower area - does this have anything to do with Earth's atmospheric conditions?
- Tcasey0478, on 06/28/2008, -2/+2Nice shot, good find!
- silfiriel, on 06/28/2008, -7/+7luck has nothing to do with it.
He planned, and plotted, skimmed and devised to shoot this! - poidh, on 06/28/2008, -2/+2Actually, it's the sandstone formation called Ayer's Rock, also known as Uluru.
- Sponky, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Contact the photographer (link below the image) if you want it that much. A quick search for his name did not turn up an astrophotography gallery.
- ChaosProfessor, on 06/28/2008, -2/+2you obviously live in the city i live in rural wisconsin and routinely can see the entire milkey way
- bngeodesic, on 06/28/2008, -2/+2lucky shot
- Sashwan, on 06/28/2008, -2/+2You better hurry up. The next one might actually hit it ;P
- twilitezone, on 06/28/2008, -0/+0An absolutely beautiful picture, it really puts into perspective that our (human) place in the universe is so insignificant. I wish I could travel in space; I want to meet some aliens!! lol
- cmp1968, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1I wish they had the picture available without the damn inset.
- gsherwood, on 06/28/2008, -1/+1You can subscribe to pretty much every site that digg articles link to. People use digg so they don't have to. The community goes through and decides what is best.
- jendel, on 07/01/2008, -0/+0dont look at it, just run away
- Sponky, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Just make sure you have a little respect for the Aboriginal customs and don't climb it, walk around it.
- ZhangYing, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0I'm getting ready to go there now. Hopefully I could be the lucky one too!
- fam7969, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0This is an Awsome Photo. Once in a lifetime pic - NICE!!!!
- BoDudley, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0I have lived in Central Australia since last September and have seen several spectacular fireballs. One of them so bright I thought it was a low flying aircraft on approach. Amazing. I love the ones that split up in the atmosphere the best.
- twilitezone, on 06/28/2008, -1/+0REALLY!! I did not already know that...(sarcasm) Considering I DID go to my subscribed RSS feed for APOD, once I am there...if I like the pic...there is a "digg" button at the bottom of the page, you hit it if you "digg" the pic, and that is how I end up here. Sooo, just maybe NOT everyone did go straight to 'digg'... maybe some ppl, just like I were on their APOD page.
- ToBuns, on 06/28/2008, -1/+0I'm just guessing here but I think this is probably a composite shot of 10-15 exposures stacked in a program. Something like...
4 x 60 seconds
4 x 30 seconds
4 X 10 seconds
2 X 2 seconds....and so on.
Since the planet is in constant motion, the location of the stars in the sky changes over the course of these exposures.
I'm sure he has some sort of alignment jig, maybe even a motorized one. But still, taking an astrophotography shot like this, especially at a wide angle, will always have some distortion. - lukak, on 06/28/2008, -4/+3*puts on tin foil hat*
- dafunkmonster, on 06/28/2008, -2/+1you obviously dont understand how to punctuate sentences this is silly i love cocaine obama08 bush sucks
- peanuttoast, on 06/28/2008, -1/+0Uluru...
Not "Ayers Rock" - dafunkmonster, on 06/28/2008, -3/+1I clicked on this story thinking it was another attack from the weather underground.
Nevermind. - hiPpymIck, on 06/28/2008, -5/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzKOOkBAwmQ
this is a rockroll (...but by many desperate coincidences - its not off topic)
so click if you want to see Uluru rock
and listen to Bill Hayley and the Comets
singing rock around the clock - crazyjake, on 06/28/2008, -6/+1wow, pictures like this make me anxious for the days that humans will travel amongst the stars. looking at a picture like this really does make me want to get out there and explore.
that, and i just got done watching a couple episodes of Doctor Who!! - bouche, on 06/28/2008, -7/+2I've got news for you. There is an RSS feed for the APOD photos that you can subscribe to and spare us on digg from seeing APOD every single frikkin' day.
Who's going to help me bury these? I can't be the only one that sees how ridiculous the APOD post daily to digg is. - pstroll, on 06/28/2008, -10/+2Fake!! There are only like a dozen stars in the night sky. Obviously someone photoshopped a Hubble image as the background.
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