Cool. Good work. And I applaud the effort extended to capture something like that. Is the red tint from city lights? Paul On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
> (re-sending as I used the wrong email account last night and I guess > non-subscribed email addresses are not allowed to post. Duh!) > > Here in Minneapolis, MN.... the Iridium satellites decided to present > themselves as a duo > > The local newspapers made a big deal about it, but it was tricky to > find out exactly where to point the camera to spot TWO of them going > from S to N side by side (almost). Luckily, I was able to find out > that it would be almost directly between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. > > So I perched myself up on the roof of my office building, and got this: > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2007/IMGP5194_iridium_small.jpg > > or > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2007/IMGP5194_iridium_large.jpg > > You can see Ursa Minor in its entirety to the left of the > streaks... .and the "bowl" of Ursa Major to the right. I've got to > work on the post-processing to draw out the details, but you'll > probably be able to get the point. > > (first person to tell me I have DUST on my sensor gets a virtual > SMACK across the IntarTubes) > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
