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Author Topic: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party  (Read 1663 times)  Share 

Offline madplanter

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Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« on: May 20, 2009, 11:19:48 AM »
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stunning time lapse video...




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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2009, 12:41:55 PM »
Beautiful, Thank you  :eusa_clap:
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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2009, 12:47:41 PM »
Wooow!!!!....Bookmarked! :eusa_clap:
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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2009, 06:07:27 PM »
HOLY SH!T

That is one of the most Amazing Things I have ever seen posted on the internet!  BRAVO!!  :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap:

This post is definately going into the first issue of the Chat Weekly email Newsletter this Sunday :)

Offline Dennis1993

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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2009, 08:33:25 PM »
Thats amazing!  :eusa_clap:
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Offline SA Bill

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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2009, 08:58:24 PM »
That is sooooo cool! I love the things we can do now a days with modern digital cams amd processing. Don't miss Kodachrome at all! Velvia is another matter... :eusa_think: :icon_wink:
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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2009, 10:57:34 PM »
That is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.   :icon_biggrin:

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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2009, 11:31:40 PM »
looks even better @ http://tinyurl.com/shanea018

Offline Al

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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2009, 12:51:35 AM »
Most incredible view of the sky and photography.  I used to think I'd seen the Milky Way.  Passed it on.

Al

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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2009, 07:48:35 AM »
Wonderful :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap:
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Offline Terlingua50337

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Re: Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2009, 08:52:07 PM »
At 28 seconds in I started saying Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa........... then my jaw dropped and I just watched.

 

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