Dec 252009
The horses in the field out back a few days ago… horse hair caught on the barbed wire picked up a lot of frost.
Raedthinn’s just a bit big to sit atop that perch, but that doesn’t stop him.
Frost: visual evidence that nature wants to hurt you…
Closeup on the frost.
The sky was mostly clear today.
Sunset with jetliner.
The constellation of Orion rising over the Wasatch mountains. Pleiades near the top of the frame. A 30 second exposure, explaining the streaking of the stars.
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Mornin’ and
Happy-New-Boxing-Fire Egg Day, thingie…
You’re getting a bit good with that there camera, old son,
Love the frost pictures, and the cloudscape.
Are you sure Raedthinn’s not my cat’s brother??
For your astrohotos, have you tried taking multiple short
exposures and stacking them with Registax?
That contrail looks like a rocket launch, and that is a damned nice starscape shot. How far away is the mountain in that?
Magnificent work!
Merry Christmas Scott 🙂
Nice pics.
> For your astrohotos, have you tried taking multiple short
exposures and stacking them with Registax?
I’ve tried that with Astrostacker, with unimpressive results. But I decided to look up Registax, found the mai website for it, and went to download it… and my anti-virus software immediately went bonkers… “pak generic.oo1”
> How far away is the mountain in that?
Around 10 miles.
Wow, live in the east for awhile and you forget how FAR away things are! Most of the time here in PA the apparent horizon is under 2 miles. Much under!
> Most of the time here in PA the apparent horizon is under 2 miles.
On really clear days, which aren’t exceptionally common, from Tremonton you can see all the way south past the Great Salt Lake to the mountains beyond. From Tremonton to West Valley City on this map (about 70+ miles):
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=41.20139,-111.862793&spn=1.091122,2.463684&t=p&z=9
> and my anti-virus software immediately went bonkers… “pak generic.oo1″
Gah…. just downloaded it myself, and Norton 360 v2 reports no problem…
only recommended it to you because Sky + Telescope recommend it…