Posted: 5/23/2010 10:49:59 PM EDT
I took this in Feb. during the last night launch of the shuttle program. I am a newb at this dSLR thing and I am pretty happy that is came out (I was expecting it to be trash). I'm pretty sure that the slight blur of the stars could be from a little bump to the tripod from my foot because I don't think that stars move that much in 25 seconds. I am not sure if there is anything that I could do to clean that mistake up, I know nothing about editing yet. I had never viewed a shuttle launch before and I didn't want to ruin the experience looking through a viewfinder the entire time, so I took a couple shots with my 200mm zoom lens in the 0-15 second range of the launch and then sat back to watch for a bit. I had already figured out that I wanted to try and get the booster separation with a time laps shot. Google let me know that booster separation happens about 2 minutes into the flight so with that info at about the 1 minute mark I quickly changed lenses and got my camera back on my shit tripod. Since I don't know what I am doing, i set the camera up to decide what f stop and ISO to take the picture with and all I did was set the shutter at 25 seconds. At the time I didn't have a remote so at 1:35 after launch I set the 10 second delay and sat back hoping to catch what I wanted. After everything settled down I took a look at the camera screen and thought it came out OK but didn't think I got the separation. When I got home and looked over my pictures I was really happy that I got the boster separation and more or less got exactly what I wanted out of the picture. It was really encouraging that I was able to wing it, without knowing what I was doing and get something that I like. These new cameras are dummy proof! Any comments or criticisms are welcome.
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That's a cool photo. I had to look a couple of times at the red streaks because I thought they were a blur. Nope, those are the SRB's separating. As far as celestial motion, the stars move through 15 MOA per minute, so your exposure recorded 6.25 MOA of motion. BTW, where were you when you took that? |
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That's a cool photo. I had to look a couple of times at the red streaks because I thought they were a blur. Nope, those are the SRB's separating. As far as celestial motion, the stars move through 15 MOA per minute, so your exposure recorded 6.25 MOA of motion. BTW, where were you when you took that? Thanks for the info on the star movement, very interesting stuff. I never would have thought that I would have star blur on such a short exposure. When I took the pic I was in Titusville, we parked in the lot of a seafood place and set up shop right on the shore of the river. It was a very cool experience. |