Tag: astrophotography

  • Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station

    PetaPixel has an fantastic article covering how the ISS astronauts take snapshots of our little ball of rock. It’s a short read but the photos are outstanding. Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station.

  • Frogs and Moon

    So I went out tonight to try and snap a decent shot of the super-moon. I started out with a low ISO of 200 and aperture of 11 on my Canon 75-300 mm zoom. I wasn’t really getting satisfactory results though – that lens is hard to focus. Shutter speeds of around 125 – 320…

  • Thierry Legault – Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman

    Now this is just amazing. Astrophotography is one of my favorite things. Thierry Legault, a French engineer and photographer, managed to catch the ISS as it made it’s away in between the earth and Sun in January of 2011. The image is fantastic, almost sci-fi. Go to his homepage to see his other fine work,…

  • Ft. Fisher, NC – Rocks and Sky

    Here I stand, Once again, On my tiny speck of dust. Peering out of the blackness, Looking at the lights, With a heart full of wonder. And just for an instant, I perceive the Cosmos, And I blow the stars away Like dandelion seeds. [nggallery id=26]

  • Chris VenHaus

    Hi folks, sorry I haven’t posted anything here lately – the end of the school year brought me the toughest set of exams yet, but I somehow made my way through and now I am an honest to goodness official college graduate, with an AAS degree in Nuclear Technology. So now that school is over…

  • Lunar Eclipse 2010

    In December of 2010, most of North America was presented with the spectacle of a lunar eclipse. It started around 1:00 am, and lasted til around 3:30 am, so I didn’t last til the end, but I did get a few meager shots of it that turned out ok. It was extremely cold, and I…