"Yes! It’s true. I have a new HDR Workshop page that you can visit for a few more details. This is gonna be awesome. It’s the first time I have ever offered anything like this… It will be the first full weekend in January 2010 (8th and 9th) here in Austin (pics on link!) . I’m only going to have a few people at the workshop to keep the interaction quality high. Note that at the last photowalk, we had a 175 people show up that were local! But, this workshop will only have 10-15 people. Check back on Nov 13th to register and grab your spot!"
- Michael Fidler
from Bookmarklet
"Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the panorama: "This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae," Mellinger said. Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan."
- Michael Fidler
from Bookmarklet
Ruined? I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen it since the first time watched it on its opening day. I walked into the theater that day with no expectations, because it was serendipity (long story) that I was there in the first place. It’s easy for me to criticize it now, but I’ll never forget the impression it made on me the first time watched it. From the first scene to the...
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- Michael Fidler
@Michael Not the originals, the computer doctored versions that followed
- Mo Kargas
But they removed the funny halos around all of the ships:)
- Michael Fidler
Has NASA started exploring new rocket fuels yet to help cut costs?
- Bryan Lee
I don't know, but they have been working on a next Gen propulsion system for deep space missions. NASA really needs to reduce its bureaucracy to save money.
- Michael Fidler