Bisecting the Moonrise

is this Mars? a spark from the rocket (buti don't see others)? a pulsar (signaling red as "Stop" for galactic traffic), or??
any ideas?

There's one here too.

And here.

And some blue ones over here.

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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::Nyla Rossini:: says:

ooooh wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a beautiful light effect this has created:)))
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

ah bueno...!!! |-O
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Jaako says:

spectacular.

It really doesn't look like that long of a flight?
is that just perspective playing with me, or is the rocket only firing for a few hundred feet?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr Geoff says:

Wow! This is way cool!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Jaako: It went fairly high (I'm guessing 2 or 3K ft.). This is a 16mm very-wide-angle lens tilted up to catch a huge patch of sky. After burnout, the rocket also cruises up for quite a while in relative darkness.

Or, from another perspective, it was enough to hop over the moon.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Pieces of Eye says:

what are the small orange streaks accompanying the main (green) path?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

electronic alchemist says:

Fantastic image - splitting the heavens!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

saravmit singh says:

congrats on explore........
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

msamaclean © says:

Better than fireworks! Nice image!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

the matt1 says:

Wonderful shot. I wouldn't have guessed what this was without a caption
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

petervanallen says:

excellent
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

liam_sheasby says:

wow, great shot
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Tomi Tapio says:

(views large) oh, it is much fun!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Ali Danışman says:

wowwww !!! excellent ..
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

L'aBe says:

Excellent capture
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

NO SUGAR ADDED says:

so beautiful!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Kirpernicus says:

Cool shot, perfect exposure time.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Eye Candy!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

Namaste y'all.

To the 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... (edit: will add this to caption)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

James Neeley says:

Wondeful shot.
>>>seen on
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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

CW61 says:

Great capture!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

pierre_bl says:

The World Through My Eyes
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Philippe Lejeanvre says:

I first thought it was a lightning! Great work!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Robbao says:

Amazing image, great capture!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Dor Dan says:

WOW!!!! Love the color and composition!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

robotography (now in the UK) says:

very cool

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Atrøphos says:

simply amazing.. congratz for the explore!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Baptiste Lacoste says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Dreams of Light, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

Thanks for the explanation on colored pixels / noise. Didn't know about all that. =)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

ATSICHLAS (Very very busy) says:

So amazing!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Socceraholic says:

how did you manage to get the perfect settings for it?
i mean sometimes i wanna do some stuff for shots that happen one time but i can't find the settings.. it's either over or under exposed by miles.. !!

any hints? ohh,, this is really wonderful!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jurvetson says:

lots of practice... and knowing the subject's behavior from many prior encounters.... =)

Oh, and some luck too! I held it open in bulb mode with manual focus and went with my gut on the settings. The first shot was way overexposed. And the next two took my breath away. Actually, I like this one more, it was the third of the bunch, and I was trying to use the red moon to light up the scattered clouds a bit more... and I had the rare benefit (photographically speaking =) that my rocket motor ruptured mid flight:

The Milky Way on the right is my fave shot from last year.

Oh, one important tip comes to mind; I set up my tripod in advance before the sun went down so that the horizon line would be straight. I knew where the moon would rise (roughly) from the prior night. So I left my tripod there for a few hours until it got dark enough.
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michaelマイケル(Busy) says:

Excellent image
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Socceraholic says:

so, a scientist and a photographer.. !
that's a nice combo ! thanks alot for the tips.. :)

wish you all the luck!
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poca-traça says:

No words.
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~ qǝɐ ~ WITHOUT PC [ BROKEN ] says:

Hola, soy el administrador de un grupo llamado The DreamCatchers ~ COMMENT ON ANY ONE!! y nos encantaría agregar esto al grupo.

That's..... oh, my! I see some ET's over here. :P :P :P
A different picture.... Creative, new.

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MarcelGermain says:

Impressive!

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A Garazo / Ninakupenda images says:

I saw this in the 50+ Faves group and Faved it.
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plecojan says:

Fantastic!!!! Thanks for the technical info as well.!

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Gustavo Fariña says:

Gorgeous! Congratulations.
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really awesome :D
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Cool!

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Iñigo Sierra says:

Wonderful pic, congratulations!
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jmparks says:

Great pic man, love the color range of it!
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Impressive !!

I invite you to add this great 100+ faves picture to the 100+ Faves group.
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[bastian.] says:

Amazing. Great picture. Thanks for sharing and the explanation.
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WOW!
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I saw this in the 100+ Faves group and Faved it.
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Racortesl says:

Wow...
Está increible la imagen...
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Brian O'Mahony says:

Very cool shot indeed! Actually it's amazing!

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maria flying says:

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Bob Whitefield says:

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).
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Awesome! Seen here:
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Speechless!

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Dan Ofer says:

Amazing.
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gerry morgan says:

amazing !
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Thanks for image in Creative Commens

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benjiman says:

goddam SJ. i think i missed this one.
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amjone says:

Awesome shot!

Seen on www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24/45-beauti ful-motion-b...
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Aleem 3.0 says:

we have Liftoff...............
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hola
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Bisecting the Moonrise

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