Amazing Pictures

[The Third Man]

Click for huge.

[longhornbaseball]

God, I love the internet.

[pioneer98]

This guy has some incredible stuff.

By the way, that is an airplane, the Moon, Jupiter and two of Jupiter's moons in the same photograph...if you didn't know what the dots were at the bottom right.

[go birds]

There is no way that that photo is shopped right?

[pioneer98]

There is no way that that photo is shopped right?

It was taken with a telescope. NASA featured it as their "Astronomy Picture of the Day". If you read his notes on it (below) it sounds like he did have to do some tricks to get Jupiter's moons to pop out and become visible in the photo.

Hi all,

No matter how much you plan and prepare, sometimes you just have to be very lucky.

I had my camera imaging The Moon and Jupiter occultation through my telescope at about 10 second intervals when I noticed the lights from a plane close to the moon. I realised that there was a chance that it would pass in front of the moon, so I quickly canceled the remote timer I was using to take the shots and instead started shooting high speed continuous frames. I managed to get this plane crossing the moon in five individual frames just as Jupiter was about to be occulted by The Moon.

This is a two image composite. The Moon, Jupiter and the plane are all one single image. I then took an overexposed image to bring up the Galilean Moons of (from left to right) Io, Callisto and Europa. Ganymede had already been occulted by The Moon.

18/02/2013
Canon 60D (Prime Focus)
10inch F/4 Newtonian Telescope
NEQ6 Pro Goto Telescope Mount set on Lunar Tracking
ISO 100
Single 1/200th of a second exposure for The Moon, Plane and Jupiter
Single 1/10th of a second exposure for the moons of Jupiter

EDIT: Featured as the Astronomy Picture Of The Day for the 25th of February 2013 [link]

[StL Dan]

Much more believable.

God, I love the internet.

[go birds]

thats freaking awesome

[Freed Roger]

[heyzeus]

http://thestacks.deadspin.com/willie-ma ... 1349890009

In 1954, Willie Mays was 23 years old. That year he hit 41 home runs, had a .345 average, and was the National League MVP. And here he is, at his rented apartment in a Harlem walk-up with his landlady, one Mrs. Goosby, looking protectively over his shoulder as he eats.

So, to repeat: National League MVP. Tiny walk-up rental in Harlem, complete with a stunning brick-wall view.

[stlouie_lipp]

When an amazing athlete knows the end is near...