Richard Hagen’s rocket, flying on a Aerotech J500G motor, created a wonderful night light over the Black Rock Desert playa.
edit: Regarding the overlay notes about the random color pixels; digital astronomy photography becomes an exercise in the statistics of noise. The high-end photographers liquid cool their sensors and build images from a large number of relatively short exposure shots. For bright objects, like the local planets, they integrate an image from video. It's fascinating, and totally out of my league. This is just a single digital exposure, no Photoshop, and I suspect you are seeing pixels of noise. But I like the aspirational explantions more...
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macropoulos 59 months ago | reply
WOW!
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Light ᶤˢ ᵒᶠᶠ [deleted] 59 months ago | reply
I saw this in the 100+ Faves group and Faved it.
Werner Schnell (1.stream) 59 months ago | reply
I saw this in the 100+ Faves group and Faved it.
Racortesl 58 months ago | reply
Wow...
Está increible la imagen...
Eddi van W. 57 months ago | reply
Hallo, ich bin der Administrator der Gruppe Creative Commons- Free Pictures, und wir würden uns freuen, wenn Du dies zu unserer Gruppe hinzufügen würdest.
Brian O'Mahony 57 months ago | reply
Very cool shot indeed! Actually it's amazing!
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_overfly_ 57 months ago | reply
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Bob Whitefield 56 months ago | reply
Gorgeous. I used to do a lot of time exposures in my film days (including some of small rockets with light bulbs onboard).
But my long digital exposures were inevitably plagued by noise. Until I discovered a great program called Neat Image, which cleans up the noise without affecting detail (www.neatimage.com).
RowdyReptile 56 months ago | reply
Awesome! Seen here:
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PIERO CAMPILII FOTOGRAFÍA 55 months ago | reply
Speechless!
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Dan Ofer 54 months ago | reply
Amazing.
noprayer4dying 54 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ..:: I LOVE DARK PHOTOS ::.., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
gerry morgan 54 months ago | reply
amazing !
Blende 007 51 months ago | reply
Thanks for image in Creative Commens
benjiman 49 months ago | reply
goddam SJ. i think i missed this one.
{Nelly Rodriguez} 49 months ago | reply
Awesome shot!
Seen on www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24/45-beautiful-motion-b...
i . /✪\LEEM 49 months ago | reply
we have Liftoff...............
DemiR DesiGn [deleted] 48 months ago | reply
hola
© Ahmed Amir 42 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 250 and more Faves only, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
jpprado 13 months ago | reply
Wow, this is stunning!