SkyFall09 wrote:
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Wow.. the fireball is outstanding for me.
Was for me too... except for the fact that I didn't actually see it!
IndyFab wrote:
Very nice set, have to like Lupins in the frame
Love the Lupins!
Just got back from three days at Canyonlands to shoot the Perseids (yes, it was hot), saw that this is featured for the week. Happy that people enjoyed the imagery enough to vote!
Jeff wrote:
Haven't been home lately… [snip] … I know lots of people harbor much consternation over the 'changing of the night sky'.
All images shot with Canon 5Ds/R5 and Sigma Art lenses, most are panoramas, most star images tracked.
Anyway, hope y'all enjoy...
-Jeff
Pictures of my birth lands, homelands of my family. Long, long time since I've been there. Have avoided these places as the waves of Californian's have literally eaten the rocks. Still, it is there… still. I can remember growing up with that night sky. I would be out doing things with stupid cattle. Often, just stood stunned - welded to the sky. As I grew up and left, it has remained a searing sliver at the back of my mind. I've also thought many times that if I'd known what photography was… Head shake.
But as the wise say, No photo can capture the eye of the mind.
byteseller wrote:
Amazing photos! Especially like the airglow event and fireball those are spectacular.
Now, the one of the satellites whose names shall-not-be-spoken.... boooooo!!!
Glad you enjoyed most of them.
SpaceX may have effectively been first to market, but either way large constellations of LEO satellites was going to happen; Falcon 9's success simply hastened the first barrage. Both OneWeb and Amazon are poised to add a significant number of additional satellites (other countries have plans, as well), and arguably with less tech/operational guidance to try and limit their brightness.
In uncovering and deciphering (last spring) the previously unknown (or perhaps little-noticed is more accurate?) highest-latitude flaring phenomenon captured in that image, I have actually found it quite interesting to subsequently photograph these 'shells' of satellites. The graphic 'presentation' of the different orbital shells (as captured in–and composited from–time lapse sequences) presents the viewer with a rather unique opportunity to visualize the three-dimensional nature of LEO satellites and their altitudes, the 'grid-like' appearance of which describes a literal (geometric) layer around the earth, beyond the stratosphere, that we can now observe.
As a photographer focused on night imagery I'd argue that city lights provide a far more significant impediment to casual viewing of the night sky than do satellites, though I do understand the challenge to professional astronomers that these new constellations represent. In recently capturing a time-lapse of a section of the geosynchronous satellite belt, it illustrated to me how busy even the farther reaches of earth orbit are and have been, as many of these now decommissioned communications satellites have been there for many decades, and will continue to be there for hundreds to thousands of years.
John Power wrote:
Thank you for this FMer since 2002. Got me beat by about 7 months No dog/cat pictures here...
Hah! Nope, nor birds!
You got me beat on posts, though, and it's funny how us 'old guys' who are less active than back in the day have so few 'likes'. I remember fondly the day a less-than-casual commenter on the Canon board effectively accused me of being a loser because I had so few likes (compared to him).
Amazing how many of us 2002-2003 users are still active around here! I really think it's a testament to the community @Fred Miranda built.
No dog/cat pictures here...