The Night Sky In 37,440 Exposures

MyFox ^ | 12 May 2011 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

SEATTLE - Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky.

But last year the amateur astronomer and photographer quit his day job as a Seattle marketing director and lugged six synchronized cameras about 60,000 miles to capture an image of the entire night sky.

Risinger, 28, set up his rack of cameras in high-elevation locales in the Western U.S. and South Africa, timing photo shoots around new moons.

[Daffynition]

[OneWingedShark]

Nice!

[Jim 0216]

Looks like a dead jellyfish or something in the middle of surgery.

[Empireoftheatom48]

How beautiful!

[a fool in paradise]

"It's full of stars!"

[Daffynition]

Makes me long for a Table Mtn Star Party.

[thackney]

Fantastic looking pictures for sale on his web site.

http://skysurvey.org/prints/index.html#

[Daffynition]

Makes me want to quit my job and do something *fun* for a change.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Road kill!

[Daffynition]

All the technical stuff is here

[mountn man]

ping

[Daffynition]

LOL...I swear there's not a single person on FR who has any sense of aesthetics or spirituality. ;D

[MNJohnnie]

Way cool!

[svcw]

Thanks

[Ramius]

“Wow... big place.”
— Z. Beeblebrox

[Publius6961]

Higher res versions here :

Hi Res Version

[Publius6961]

Bookmark for later to figure out where our familiar constellations are.

[geege]

How come my back yard sky never looks like this!!!!!!

[jnsun]

The MoonWalk? Very nice.

[RC51]

Would some please explain to me why when I look up at the night sky it has never looked like this to me.

[frithguild]

[VeniVidiVici]

bump

[Daffynition]

Like me, you probably live in an area that has too much light pollution. ;(

[Daffynition]

You need a bigger 'scope. ;D

[geege]

I am....Hunterdon County NJ....We have a pretty clear night sky but not like that....

[Zathras]

Thanks for the link.
I grabbed a download and set it to my windows wallpaper.

[Rebelbase]

Looks like a thin section with garnet crystals.

[mcshot]

Is that the thing that’s coming to shut off the lights and put a munching on us?

[dangerdoc]

bump

[Daffynition]

Join a club; take a course; what I learned is you need ,a 15- to 20-inch truss-tube Dobson-mounted Newtonian, with lots of accessories; a laptop if you want to take pictures. Look up clubs in your area. They are *fun* people. Not as *fun* as shooters, b/c most of them are tree huggers [make sure you don't mention politics]. Most are willing to share info willingly.

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA! Perfect!

[brityank]

How come my back yard sky never looks like this!!!!!!

I was lucky enough to see some of it - as he noted the main problem is the light pollution around humanity.

Out on deck of an aircraft carrier under lights-out in the middle of the Pacific, and you can really see the star glow shadows.

[brityank]

Like me, you probably live in an area that has too much light pollution. ;(

Maybe he should go to North Korea.       ;^)

[Eagle Eye]

I’d also expect that his exposure rate is greater than what your eyes can handle.

Even in the desert in Iraq I never saw the sky look like that.

[Daffynition]

It's those dang *tail-hookers* zooming in and out, spoiling everything. ;D

[tutstar]

bfl

[NCC-1701]

There are some that say there is no God.

To that, I say BS. One look at that and how can they deny His existence?

[Daffynition]

Amen to that. Also to think *we* are the only critters out there, seems equally speculative as well.