(meteorobs) Great fireball photo -Addendum

[stange]

He was probably out there in the outback camping on the flatland & driving 
around during the day looking for meteorites. -YCS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stange" <stange34 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2008/06/29 08:05
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Great fireball photo(s) on APOD


> Belatrix is right.
>
> Australia is one of the few places on earth that can capture the full 
> glory
> of the milky way without domestic(ambient) lighting ruining the photograph
> contrast & detail.
>
> Other than the insert, I do not believe any massaging was done on that
> photo. I have seen supurb photos of the MW from Austrailia before on
> Astronomy websites and they do not need low Lux cameras in long exposure 
> or
> any touchup. A plain camera will do it.
>
> The backlighting of the foreground brush was probably from a small camping
> light.
>
> YCSentinel
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "drobnock" <drobnock at penn.com>
> To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: 2008/06/29 06:21
> Subject: (meteorobs) Great fireball photo(s) on APOD
>
>
>> The waste of words for a great photo.
>>
>> Yes, Photoshop is over worked.  The pixel world is not the same as what
>> we see. But what difference does it make?  Is the Ayres Rock composition
>>
>> any different that the Hubble overlays
>> (http://www.slate.com/id/2120008/)("How Do Space Pictures Get So
>> Pretty?, Photoshop, of course".,by Daniel Engber) , or the pic of Mars,
>> Jupiter, others
>> (http://www.photoshopsupport.com/resources/stock-photos/nasa-planets.html).
>>
>> Remember the first pictures of the back side of the moon?  An out of
>> focus melon.
>>
>> The folks who can use the technology to wow are not all that evil.
>>
>> George John Drobnock
>>
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