(meteorobs) Great fireball photo(s) on APOD

[belatrix]

My beef is with gist of the comment - on a weekend trip to uluru 
LMAO!!! some weekend!!!! must of been a reaaaal looong one!! oh yeah i 
go for 2000klm jaunts across deserts at the drop of a hat. agreed the 
is pretty amazing luck to have a telephoto and the widefield of same, 
but going by the atrocious lens aberations in WF, it was definitely 
wide open lens, and i have taken similarly deep shots on a tripod no 
problems, the foreground plants are lit up interestingly, purely by 
starlight, motel? been a long time since i have seen an uluru plus 
astro night sky shot, used to be all the rage one time. she's real, 
what fake would post a blow up of horrible stars like that!
cheers
kearn

On 28/06/2008, at 10:09 PM, GeoZay at aol.com wrote:

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> :
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>>> Worth taking the extra
> seconds to read the caption; let's  just say not all meteor 
> photographers are
> this  fortunate.<<
> A couple questions come to my mind about these two photographs. ..
>
> 1) The wide angle exposure showing the milky way with pin point stars 
> tells
> me that the camera was guided in some manner and locked in with the  
> movement
> of the stars. That being the case, why is  the clouds and  ayers rock 
> images
> not smudged  or blurred from the movement?
>
> 2) Why is this guy making an exposure with a telephoto lens aimed low 
> to  the
> ground? Or Maybe the picture from the telephoto lens wasn't meant to 
> be  a
> "sky" photograph? Instead, maybe he was trying to take a long exposure 
> of  Ayers
> Rock using the light of the Milky Way?
>
> Anyhow, I personally get the impression that we are looking at some  
> darkroom
> or computer manipulations from 2 or 3 different exposures.
> GeoZay
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