Just before the holidays, I had the opportunity to do a little driveway stargazing with a guest from Syria. His hometown is just outside the city of Homs, actually, and if you read or listen to just a little news you know his people are going through a very, very hard time. Getting shot in [...]
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Two Self-Portraits (of planet Earth)
Posted by DougReilly on January 3, 2012
http://punkastronomy.com/2012/01/03/two-self-portraits-of-planet-earth/
Stunning Time Lapse from the Space Station
This thing is just stunning. One of the unsung benefits of digital SLR cameras–and the almost limitless storage space and ease of processing digital offers–is a resurgence of time-lapse photography. This one was taken from the Space Station. It really gives you a sense of what it looks like out one of the portal windows [...]
Posted by DougReilly on November 16, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/11/16/stunning-time-lapse-from-the-space-station/
Life where there was no life…
The short story: over the past two decades, humanity’s space probes to Mars, Saturn, comets and other planets, as well as our space-based telescopes like Hubble have collected millions of images. Like those boxes of family photos sitting in flea markets across the world, many of those images have never been seen. There are several [...]
Posted by DougReilly on June 8, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/06/08/life-where-there-was-no-life/
5000 Megapixel Night Sky Photograph!
Imagine the earth disappears under your feet and you are suddenly floating in space. The planet is gone, the atmosphere is gone, and those irritating sodium vapor lamps at the strip mall are gone; the sun and moon are likewise mysteriously absent. You look around you and your eyes adjust, becoming thousands of times more [...]
Posted by DougReilly on May 12, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/05/12/5000-megapixel-night-sky-photograph/
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