Comments on: Orionids in Aspen http://boingboing.net/2012/11/20/orionids-in-aspen.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 16:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: daev http://boingboing.net/2012/11/20/orionids-in-aspen.html#comment-1589312 daev Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195266#comment-1589312 "The Maroon Bells and Pyramid Peak" is especially stunning... that area (western slope) is one of my favorite places to shoot, and winds up on my summer roadtrip map every year. “The Maroon Bells and Pyramid Peak” is especially stunning… that area (western slope) is one of my favorite places to shoot, and winds up on my summer roadtrip map every year.

]]> By: Thomas O'Brien http://boingboing.net/2012/11/20/orionids-in-aspen.html#comment-1588207 Thomas O'Brien Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195266#comment-1588207 thanks for posting my photo Xeni! the background stars move and when that happens the radiant point moves.  I just left them in the same place that i captured them in this shot.  I normally move them around and line them up with the correct radiant for the background stars but it feels like i am just creating a photo rather than taking it when i do that.  i have a bunch of meteor shots like you talk about on my flickr stream. thanks for posting my photo Xeni!

the background stars move and when that happens the radiant point moves.  I just left them in the same place that i captured them in this shot.  I normally move them around and line them up with the correct radiant for the background stars but it feels like i am just creating a photo rather than taking it when i do that.  i have a bunch of meteor shots like you talk about on my flickr stream.

]]> By: daev http://boingboing.net/2012/11/20/orionids-in-aspen.html#comment-1588062 daev Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195266#comment-1588062 I'm curious about why these are not radiating from a single point (they're called the Orionids because the cometary path we're passing through to produce the shower makes them all appear to radiate from Orion). While you can't keep the background stars in the same relative position to the landscape over the course of the night, you kind of lose the perspective when the frames are randomly stacked against a static background of stars. I’m curious about why these are not radiating from a single point (they’re called the Orionids because the cometary path we’re passing through to produce the shower makes them all appear to radiate from Orion). While you can’t keep the background stars in the same relative position to the landscape over the course of the night, you kind of lose the perspective when the frames are randomly stacked against a static background of stars.

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