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Old 27-September-2009, 08:06 AM
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30 second exposures, F3.5, AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm lens, Nikon D5000 camera, ISO 2500. This is the basic lens that came with the camera.

A few more like this:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=4021
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Old 27-September-2009, 08:52 AM
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A lovely capture. Beautiful.

Looks like a Cosmic Volcanic Eruption, with the hills in foreground.

Thanks for sharing.
nice web/blog site too.
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You have a great backyard for skywatching.
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I notice a bit of illumination of the landscape. Was that the Moon doing its thang.

I really like your sunset pic.
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I notice a bit of illumination of the landscape. Was that the Moon doing its thang.
Nope. That was just a thirty-second exposure doing it's thing. This is aided by the fact that this photo was taken *long* after sundown, and yet the sky was still glowing... because the ATK-Thiokol plant on the other side of the hill leaves their 20,000 acres of lighting on all friggen' night.
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A lovely capture. Beautiful.

Looks like a Cosmic Volcanic Eruption, with the hills in foreground.
Then you'd surely get a kick out of the shots here:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=4056

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nice web/blog site too.
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You have a great backyard for skywatching.
Yup. Except when the horses get pushy. The cats getting pushy is one thing, but when half a ton of meat starts banging into you and trying to eat your hair, it kinda puts a damper on the skywatching mood.
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Very beautiful!

Now, where exactly is your back yard?
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Very beautiful!

Now, where exactly is your back yard?
Semi-rural Utah, on the other side of the hill from ATK-Thiokol at Promontory.

As shown here:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=3911
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Great picture. Looks like you got a few messier objects, definately the lagoon nebula and possibly the M22 globular cluster, it looks like a fuzzy star in Sagittarius.
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