What is this? The story behind this is just hilarious! I laughed out loud for a good while. Click here for more from Will Campbell* about what this is, and why it was not quite what he was expecting to get!
-cvj
(*A fellow blogger on the LA scene, with many an excellent post over on the blog [sic], and Metroblogging LA.)
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I love it!
Who among us has NOT taken such a pic, mesmerized by the scene but forgetting that the camera does not have our mental capacity for wonderment!
And it reminds me when I recently tried to take a picture of the ISS…
An ECG in the sky
Reminds me of the time when I took some photos of an eclipse with a beautiful, Russian made, manual focus, SLR camera. No doubt the pictures would have been stunning, had I remembered to put some film in…
Ah, lovely. Makes my heart warm that does.
Astrophotography is not the easiest thing in the world, especially in the old days before GPS mounts, autoguiding, auto everything.
I probably have a pile of negatives somewhere that exhibit every fault known to astrophotographer-kind; apart from this new one !!! I guess it would be equivalent to an earthquake.