Moonshine on Ama Dablam
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First Published: 22 November 2010
Recently, I published an image that became popular. While perusing the photos from that night in the Himalaya in Nepal, a similar but better image popped up. The moon shining off the mountain grabbed and held my eye, and I thought some people might like to share this moment.
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That is probably a combination of atmospheric and lens aberration, and just resolution of the camera. However, I have multiple shots -- and if you are a software guru this might be correctable to a very sharp image.
Asked if this was the correct image because when looking closely, it looks like the camera was moved about 2/3 of the way into this long exposure shot. You can see it in the star trails and also as a "double-exposur e shadow" on the ice and rocks.
No big deal on standard screens, I'm betting it ends up as wallpaper on a lot of computers.
When I zoom in enough to see individual pixels, there's a 6-8 pixel shift in all star-arcs about 2/3 of the way (left to right) along the arc. On mountain ice and rocks, there is a similar shift.
No biggie on the star arcs, but the mountain is blurred when viewed full pixel. This does lend the image a rather nice gloss when shrunk to one screen.
Seismics? Sherpas? Melting snow? Hard to say, but it's a simple rotation so seismic movement would be my first guess.
Big digression: This vid shows some very cool starfield + land photography as well as the rigs used to shoot them. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120508.html These tools are used in the current big screen movie "Chimpanzee" which is worth the price of admission for the opening sequence photography alone.
That's an incredibly fantastic photograph. Back in the 1990s, I took a photo-astronomy class at San Diego State taught by astromomer Dennis Mamana. We would go out and take long exposure shots on BULB for time periods like 15 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, etc., to get those mesmerizing star trails. If and when you ever decide to settle down, you should consider teaching similar photography classes. Keep up the excellent work and stay safe.
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