(meteorobs) Great fireball photo(s) on APOD

[stange]

Click on the image and blow it up. You will see the camera is NOT tracking 
at all. The stars are stretched from celestial motion.

It is a genuine short period photo without equatorial tracking of any kind.

I do astrophotography now and then. :-)  YCS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <GeoZay at aol.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2008/06/29 09:06
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Great fireball photo(s) on APOD


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>>>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.<<
> It's a nice image, but it's more than obvious that some kind of 
> manipulation
> has been done to this photograph. If you get pinpoint stars, you  will end 
> up
> with blurred land features that are in the same photograph. I use to  do 
> it
> all the time. Never been able to get both pinpoint stars and non  blurred 
> land
> features from the same exposure. You can come close, but not good  enuf 
> where
> you can't tell it.
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>>>The backlighting of the foreground brush was probably from a  small 
>>>camping
> light.<<
> Perhaps and maybe even a weak strobe flash,  but that doesn't explain  the
> relatively sharp outline of Ayers rock, nor the sharp cloud features 
> along the
> horizon. Clouds along the horizon will appear relatively stationary  just 
> like
> land features and should appear blurred if the camera is tracking the
> stars...which it apparently is.
> GeoZay
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