My whole idea was to create something very alien feeling from familiar things. The landscape was actually photographed during a nice winter day, the moon was shot last summer and with some ”slight adjustments” and combining them together at least I got that alien feeling here.
I have found a new software on the net that I really can spend hours and hours toying around with. This is Celestia – a beautiful astronomical and scientifically correct model to the best of our understanding yet of the universe. Celestia works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as well.
You quickly learn how to use the zoom in and out features, how to track celestial objects through the sky but the one thing that strikes me the most is how incredibly alone I feel after a while. I have been standing on Phobos and Deimos, looking down on the face of Mars and although they are just small rocks they are quite far away from the planet that they orbit. I have been amazed over how far from the planet some of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are and the sheer number of orbiting bodies around Neptune. And then I suddenly stumbled uppon Cassini, the space probe, still going toward the outermost parts of the solar system.
I have traveled to galaxies far beyond a human comprehension and lost myself along clusters too far from the sun that it was impossible to see the Milky Way again. I have discovered the Greater and Lesser Magellan Clouds and amazed that we and Andromeda are so close in a universe on a perverse macro scale.
This my friends are just amazing. And it is freeware. Download, enjoy if you are an Astronomy buff.
All pictures here are taken from the software.
The moon is a drop in a black hole
The sun is a hell of a light
But nobody’s blue is brighter
Than the blue in my baby tonight
I’m in danger
In your jungle
I’m a stranger
Land of mambo
Cause what you do
Must be voodoo
I’m in danger
Oh baby-do
Yesterday on my way home from work I decided to stop and try to get another moon shot. I used my 70-300 handheld with manual exposure control on the camera resulting in 1/125s and f/6.3 at 300 mm focal length and ISO 200.
A little touch up in Lightroom and 1:1 cropping and this is the result.
I går på vägen hem från jobbet beslöt jag mig för att stanna och försöka ta ännu ett kort på månen. Jag använde min 70-300 glugg handhållet med helt manuell exponering, och använde slutare 1/125s och f/6.3 vid 300 mm zoom och ISO 200.
Lite efterbehandling och beskärning i Lightroom efteråt så blev resultatet som detta.