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Celestial Scenes
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PhotographerAmir Hossein AbolfathLocationPolur, IranDateJan 2007EquipmentCanon Eos 30D, 15 mm fisheye lens, 1 hrs total exposureDescriptionThe highest mountain of Iran, Damavand, is a volcano sleep under snow and wind is blowing up there and moves clouds up there. It's the best to drink coffee beside that on snow! |
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PhotographerAmir Hossein AbolfathLocationPolur, IranDateJan 2007EquipmentCanon Eos 30D, 15 mm fisheye lens, 1 hrs total exposureDescriptionThe last and the brightest star of winter sky is rising under moonlight. |
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PhotographerAmir Hossein AbolfathLocationAbyaneh, IranDateDecember 2007EquipmentCanon Eos 30D, 200 mm f/2.8 lens, 12 min total exposure, Sky-Watcher EQ6 MountDescriptionI have used a 200mm f/2.8 L Canon EF series lens and an equatorial mount to take this photo. I captured 4 3 min and combine them in Photoshop. |
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PhotographerAmir Hossein AbolfathLocationGhom, Ghom, IranDate02/02/2007 06:50 PMEquipmentCanon Eos 30D, 85 mm lens, 8 sec exposureDescriptionThese days you can see Mercury and Venus just after sunset at west with naked eyes. The brightest Object after sun and moon is Venus, shining like a diamond at west and some degrees below that is closest planet to sun, Mercury. |
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PhotographerAmir Hossein AbolfathLocationPolur, IranDate01/25/2007EquipmentCanon Eos 30D, 15 mm fisheye lens, 1 hrs total exposureDescriptionLeo is rising above the white snowy mountains and it brings Saturn. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationLinn Co., Kansas, USADateLate April, 1996EquipmentThis is a 10 minute exposure with a 50mm lens @ f/2.8 on Fuji Super G 800 plus.DescriptionAfter the show this comet put on the nights in late March when it sailed very close past Earth, Hyakutake appeared to fade but as it got closer to the sun it gave us a cool encore. This was the last time we saw it. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationCarroll Co., Missouri, USADateMarch 26, 1996EquipmentThis is an 11 minute exposure with a 24mm lens @ f/4 on Fuji Super G 400.DescriptionThe amazing comet Hyakutake is seen here sporting an ion tail stretching 60 degrees from its head well into the cluster of stars comprising the constellation of Coma Berenices. Not only was the comet cool, but the air temperature that morning was a crisp 8 degrees above zero F. |
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PhotographerMila ZinkovaLocationSan Francisco,CaliforniaDate10/15/06 around 10 a.m.EquipmentPentax point and shotDescriptionThe sun was behind me and I believed these were anti-crepuscular rays. I sent the picture to Andy Young and here's what he writes about it: "These are essentially crepuscular rays, formed in the remaining fog by the light reflected from the windows of the building. The fog droplets are fairly large, so they're strongly forward-scattering. That limits the angular length of the rays, which don't extend very far from the image of the Sun formed behind each window. That makes these really *crepuscular* rather than anti-crepuscular rays; they're seen in the anti-solar direction because that's where the light source (the reflection of the Sun in a window) is." |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationLinn Co., Kansas, USADateAutumn of 2005EquipmentThis is a 15 minute exposure with a 24mm lens @f/4 on Kodak E 200 pushed to ISO 800DescriptionThe high-res image has given me many pleasent hours identifying all the celestial goodies! Of note is the large, circular red nebula, and what has been dubbed the "galactic dark horse." I first noticed the horse Rorschach in Aug. of 1987 from Canyonlands National Park in SE Utah. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationGove Co., KansasDateMarch 2, 1994EquipmentThis image was made with a 24mm lens. First, the shutter was opened and the foreground arch was focused on and rendered with an orange filtered flash @ f/16, then, I walked through the arch to the left and rendered the inside edge of it with a magenta-filtered flash, then shifted the focus to infinity, opened up the lens to f/2.8, and walked 30 paces to the west and rendered the mid-ground rocks with a blue-filtered flash. Ths shutter was never closed during the 10 minute exposure.DescriptionAs you can see, the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, left quite an impression on me! |
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