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Terlingua50337 · « **on:** February 24, 2010, 07:42:31 AM »

http://twanight.org/newTWAN/galleries.asp?Sort=Country&Value=USA&page=1 Some really interesting night sky photography and time lapse videos here if you're a fan of that kind of thing. I haven't seen any here yet from BiBe but there may be.

Sotol Vista · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2010, 07:22:20 PM »

thanks for the link.... some cool stuff there.

Yes there are some night time shots of the bend here on the board, if you can find the post, i know i cant... So here are a few of mine

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Terlingua50337 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2010, 07:42:36 AM »

Yeah, those are nice thanks. I guess what I meant to say was I didn't know if there were any night skies of BiBe at the twan.org website. I found a search box and couldn't find any. Heck, couldn't find any shot in Texas on it but it is a cool site none the less.

tjavery · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2010, 11:34:21 PM »

I see Wally Pacholka's photos there at the twanight.org site. His work (and also James' work too

) inspired me a while back to try photographing the Milky Way. I have several night shots from Big Bend on my project page:

Terlingua50337 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2010, 07:21:17 AM »

Great time lapse. How long was it? That's as good as anything on the twan website.

tjavery · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2010, 10:31:04 AM »

Thanks! That one was composed of 100 photos played at 8 frames per second. Each photo was shot at: 25 sec., f/1.8, ISO 3200.

It's just a "down-n-dirty" video put together with the free software that comes with Windows. Someday I'll get some real software and assemble a better video of those shots. I'd like to re-do it at 15 frames per second.

Terlingua50337 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2010, 12:24:19 PM »

Right.... With what I'm shooting with now I top out at ISO 1600 so getting the shots you get are near impossible. Plus my XSi is noisy! My next one is going to be a 5D.

tjavery · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2010, 05:08:48 PM »

Well, for the time-lapse videos, it's okay if the images are a little noisy. You will be down sizing them a lot (i.e. you'll be making your video at 640 pix wide or maybe even 1000 pix), so you won't notice the noise so much.

MacEntyre · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2010, 09:15:34 AM »

Just wanted to say that Thank You Very Much!

This thread is amazing! I'm heading to Big Bend next week for the first time, and the pictures you have posted have been wonderful to view.

CactusFlower · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2010, 05:02:40 PM »

MacEntyre, I'll be there too, beginning on Wednesday night! What hikes are you doing?

MacEntyre · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2010, 09:16:15 PM »

Quote from: CactusFlower on February 28, 2010, 05:02:40 PM

MacEntyre, I'll be there too, beginning on Wednesday night! What hikes are you doing?

We'll arrive Fri at 0600, then head for the Chisos Mtns. On Sunday, we'll go downhill and decide what to do next. We'll depart on the 12th or 13th.

Terlingua50337 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 01, 2010, 08:09:31 AM »

For those that are weatherophiles (is that a word? oh well, it doensn't matter) you might want to take a look here: http://www.weatherscapes.com/index.php Lots of cool weather photos with real scientific names for all that stuff we see when we're out and about.

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