Check this out.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080929.html

Picture of the milky way is udderly awesome!!


WOW!!

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Bot,,, you are really starting to annoy me. Here we go,,, another site I won't be able to stay away from. I don't have the time !!!!

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I was sent by Chairman Mao to subvert western society.

B

^^^^ Probably can be found muttering to himself, "From each according to his ability and to each according to his needs", when found siphoning gasoline out of Cadillacs.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

And too think that we were told that you can only see things like this in star trek

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"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

That really is cool. Plus the added danger of possibily getting eaten by mountain lions adds to the thrill.

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can someone explain how this photogarph was taken?

It's in the caption.

Thanks, however does anyone know what kind of photographic equipment was used and the length of the exposure?

I wonder what it looks like to a naked eye.

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(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

Dark, with teenie-weenie points of light.

In any time exposure, the starts and planets are moving in an arc across the sky.. In the length of time required to get the milk way that bright, I would bet that the stars have travelled appreciably.

that's why I asked the question, but now another way; "what equipment takes this type of photo?"

Sorry, I thought you meant the superficial question.

IIRC to take a photo of the stars your camera must be mounted on a fancy rotating head that keeps the lens pointed at a constant azimuth and right ascension and with respect to the latitude. The rotation of the Earth will blur the stars unless compensated.