Stars and stuffz

[MartinBabies]

I was just out shooting some sky (yes, it IS night in Sweden right now) and I got a few ok shots. It is very hard to take interesting photos when it comes to stars. :P

First one, a big fat starfield. Not too many magnitude stars there, but I got that big fatass one there. I don't know much about astronomy (except for nebulae), so I can't say which star it is.


This one turned out good. For you blind people, it is the moon. Not a full moon or anything cool like that. Just like 55% is visible. It's not often I get use of my 75-300mm lens, but here I needed it. This picture is a crop though, as I couldn't get as far as I wanted.


For this last photo I apologize for the shitty quality. This is what happens when you shoot at ISO1600 and then remove the noise in the post processing. I had to get the shutter down to 10 seconds, or else the stars will "move" and form short lines, hence the high ISO. The photo itself is pretty cool though. A big fockuff cloud was passing by and created this scene.


Ah well. Maybe not much but it was fun shooting.

[John]

Very nice photos. I wonder if the big one in your first photo might actually be a planet reflecting light from our sun. I'm not sure if any are visible this time of year.

[MartinBabies]

Thanks. I don't think it is a planet. The planets we can see from Earth without astronomic equipment (is that what you call it) are Venus and Mars and both are shining with a red light I think. This one was clearly blue, I could see it with the naked eye. So I think it's probably one of the closer stars. Perhaps 5-8 lightyears away or something.

[Henry]

that last one is really nice, great colors, unfortunate about the qual though.
how did you get so much detail on the moon? : o

[Daemon]

The last two is awsome man great photos

[robgasm]

the large one could be venus =] Its usually the brightest body in the sky here, that and the north star.

[Papa]

That last one is awesome. Looks liek somethign out of a book. I don't know why but teh cloud is in such a picture-esque shape and rigth above the cloud you can see teh star it reall seems to work out nice. AGain liek said be4 though it'd be nicer with better quality.

[Dale]

They all look really good. But my fav is the third, looks like some setting in a sci-fi movie ;D

[Samuel]

The moon picture is very cool, with nice detail.