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Baron-Mookie — Garden of the Gods
Published: 2010-09-27 03:18:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 3202; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 20
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I did my best to capture the stars in the night sky in Maine. Mounting my camera on a tripod, I opened up the F-stop as wide as possible and set the shutter speed to as slow as possible. I used the timer and stepped back.It was difficult to focus, but I don't think this was a bad effort for a first attempt... and scrambling around in the dark.
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I may theive this from you and use it as a background.... I will, of course, do as I always do in the bottom right corner: add the name and site I got it from. 
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Wow. That is truly amazing. What kind of camera did you use to take this?
A little more practice, and you could be in Sky & Telescope.
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For a first attempt this did indeed turn out pretty rad! Congrats! You should feel pride for this.
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thats amazingly beautiful.. i love the color.. some stars seem blue, others yellow, red, or white.. brilliant!
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I actually tried to do this a few years ago, turned out about the same. Not an easy task! [link]
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Very nice. This is one of the best star shots I've seen outside of pro-Astronomy in a ling time.
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This is beautiful. I wish the stars were this numerous where I'm living.
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Would love to see this opened up to desktop background sizes. :3
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It looks great, I love the night sky, just the vastness of space is purely amazing.
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good LORD!
thank you so much for this! now i know how to go about trying this myself. ive never known before.
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If you ever get the chance, I suggest you listen to the song 'Garden of God' from the Chrono Cross soundtrack... it fits this picture perfectly (and might give you ideas for the DD comic)
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Very nice. You may try setting the camera to a 'bulb' setting and using one of the corded trips to hold it open. This takes a little finesse to balance between 'single dot' and 'line'.
As well, for focus, most SLR digital and film cameras should have an 'infinity' setting for the focus.
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How countlessly they congregate
O'er our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!
It's rare to see a night sky like this in our modern era. wonderful work.
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Oh man that is awsome Mookie. I wish i could have that nice of a shot of the sky all mine are really too blury to make anything out. Nice job.
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nice for a first attempt, was it film or digital?
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