Well, I'm home from my trip :V
I'm gonna write a blogpost about it so if anyone's interested in hearing about it, I'll just link ya the thing :V I took some pretty decent astrophotography. MAN I'm tired x.x
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MrHazeinCherubsGrace
WHERE'D YOU GO?!?!
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
Atacama :v
MrHazeinCherubsGrace
!!!!!!!! That's amazing! There and the Keck observatory are my top two destinations!!!!
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
I didn't get to see ALMA up close, but from the lodge I stayed at, throughout the night you could see the light from the ground-base glistening from a distance. I have a somewhat blurry photo (the haze was moving in so it isn't too clear) of Orion just rising over the mountain, with the small observatory domes in the foreground, ALMA on the mountainside, and the LMC and SMC on the side :D Heck, the Orion Nebula is in color in my photo x3
MrHazeinCherubsGrace
Sweet zombie Jesus that sounds amazing...PICS SOON!!!!!
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
I have one already on Imgur.
But here's a comparison.
This is me doing astrophotography with my phone at home. I've showed you this pic already I think (of Hubble next to Arcturus).
http://i.imgur.com/s3MuaHO.jpg
This is me doing astrophotography at the lodge, with the bare minimum of proper equipment (a DSLR with dark noise reduction and ISO expansion turned on, a properly mounted tripod, and a remote trigger).
http://i.imgur.com/RNKMyj3.jpg
It was taken in bulb mode, roughly 1 minute, at f4.0, with ISO set to H, which I think was effectively 3200.
Astrophotography could easily be the most expensive hobby ever, as getting the proper materials for it could easily run you into the tens of thousands of dollars. But my picture proves that with just basic photography equipment, you can take something show-worthy, even if it DOES have star trails zoomed in.
Oh my god I can't even tell you how beautiful the sky was. BTW the sky doesn't actually look like that. It looks like a bluish-green haze with a darkish section taken out of it. Nothing but a handful of stars are visible in color with the naked eye. But nevertheless sexy! Yes I think space is sexy you should know this by now xV
But here's a comparison.
This is me doing astrophotography with my phone at home. I've showed you this pic already I think (of Hubble next to Arcturus).
http://i.imgur.com/s3MuaHO.jpg
This is me doing astrophotography at the lodge, with the bare minimum of proper equipment (a DSLR with dark noise reduction and ISO expansion turned on, a properly mounted tripod, and a remote trigger).
http://i.imgur.com/RNKMyj3.jpg
It was taken in bulb mode, roughly 1 minute, at f4.0, with ISO set to H, which I think was effectively 3200.
Astrophotography could easily be the most expensive hobby ever, as getting the proper materials for it could easily run you into the tens of thousands of dollars. But my picture proves that with just basic photography equipment, you can take something show-worthy, even if it DOES have star trails zoomed in.
Oh my god I can't even tell you how beautiful the sky was. BTW the sky doesn't actually look like that. It looks like a bluish-green haze with a darkish section taken out of it. Nothing but a handful of stars are visible in color with the naked eye. But nevertheless sexy! Yes I think space is sexy you should know this by now xV
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
Linked ya one pic. Lemme find the ALMA picture.
MrHazeinCherubsGrace
O_O holy crap that's amazing! O_O #Jelly
TetrisGuy · 26-30, M
x3