Breath-Taking Snaps Of Galaxy Seen With The Naked Eye - DailyMailUK

[WillyT]

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014312/Milky-Way-pictures-Alex-Cherneys-photos-galaxy-seen-naked-eye.html

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[aquamarina]

1. Spectacular

Our galaxy is beautiful.

[Evasporque]

5. indeed....

I miss seeing the night sky in such vivid detail....When I was a kid in the plains states use to take a blanket and lay atop a hill scanning the milky way with binoculars and a guide book...I learned so much and saw so many wonders...great viewing out there.

[okieinpain]

2. that has to be photoshoped. has to be. n/t.

[fascisthunter]

4. not sure about that

it was the first thing I thought of too but after reading the article I think it was done using a camera with a very low shudder speed. Not sure, but that is what I gathered from the article.

Amazing.

[yawnmaster]

6. One can do fantastic things with a sky with no light polution and by adjusting exposure time...

There are also ways of extending the dynamic range of images without "cheating".
It might involve putting a number of images together into one, but shouldn't need image "manipulation".

[Monk06]

11. Says right in the article it is a composite. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. No, it doesn't

It says

'I set my camera up to take a sequence of pictures, with each exposure of 30 seconds. I took around 1,000 pictures a night, and then I put them together to demonstrate how the sky moves in relation to our position on Earth.

Since this is "Alex Cherney turned thousands of snaps into an incredible time-lapse video of the cosmos", don't assume that means each still picture you see is a composite. Since the 'together' is 'to demonstrate how the sky moves', that clearly doesn't refer to a single still picture.

That doesn't rule out manipulating the images in some way, but the article doesn't say that they have been.

[Monk06]

14. It is a composite image made from thousands of exposures over several nights. In other words

it is a manipulated image and not a picture of an actual
night sky. A composite image is by definition, manipulated.

[Original_Redstone]

16. It is Real

From a non light polluted dayk sky the sky almost can look like this. not quite but almost the your un aided eye. but take a camera and open the shutter for a few minutes and it keeps gathering the light. and that is what you get.

Nothing special I can do this any day if i lived where the lights were not as thery are in 99% of the country now.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. No, it is not. Nowhere does that article talk about a composite image

It talks about a video that it made up of many images (as every video is). It is not just one image that has been shown to us - there are many pictures in the article, looking at different views of the sky.

If you think it says 'it' is a composite image, then quote the sentences from the article that make you think this.

[Monk06]

20. On further consideration it seems they are long exposures that have been contrast corrected

not composites in the way I mentioned earlier. I used to do these
types of photos in my studio back in the analogue days.

My guess is that contrast and color balance were corrected
in PS

[Posteritatis]

19. Long-exposure photography predates Photoshop by awhile, you know. (nt)

[fascisthunter]

3. if there is a god, it's right there in these photos

what a deadly beautiful universe we live in.

[WillyT]

7. Kick !!!

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[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Beautiful. You can only see the big stars in the Los Angeles skies

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. made this picture my computer walkpaper

[WillyT]

10. Most Excellent Idea... I Think I Will Too...

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[uponit7771]

13. They are REAL but they are timelapsed, article didnt say over how long but they're beautiful

...to say the leasat

[burrowowl]

15. Beautiful!

[ThomWV]

18. Here is a copy of the most important photograph ever taken

Not so beautiful as yours to be certain, but this photograph is sometimes refered to as the most important image ever made in the history of man. Other's would argue that the Shroud of Turin is more important of course - but this reply is not directed at them.

Its from the Hubble ultra-deep field series, this is the deepest into the universe we have ever seen. The photo was taken over the course of several days as Hubble (for the second time) looked deep into a dark spot in the night sky. As I recall the spot represented one-three-millionth of the sky view, but in it there are 10,000 galaxies, each with its billion stars and their systems, many with planets, certainly many with intelligent life - and with that many planets its likely that that life comes in every form imaginable and that every possibility of existence in fact exists, somewhere.

[pipi_k]

21. As a kid I used to freak myself out...

by wondering if the universe really did go on forever and ever...

or whether it stopped at some point and there was something else (or nothing?) on the other side.

Both options were very disturbing

Still are...


In any case, seeing photos like this, and the one in the OP sure can knock a person down to size.

[BREMPRO]

22. breathtaking! the time lapse video of these photo shoots is a must see- stunning

ocean sky: http://vimeo.com/24253126

shot in South Australia where there is no ground light to interfere with the view of the stars..

[proud patriot]

23. sweet

[WillyT]

24. Kick !!!

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[Gold Metal Flake]

25. Link to his videos...

http://vimeo.com/terrastro/videos

Go ahead. Blow your mind.

[L0oniX]

26. Kick