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Elfin Yeti Donating Member (623 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 01:40 PM
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For night photographers and everyone else!
A must-see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV58YptFTK0
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trusty elf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 02:27 PM
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1. Thanks Elfin Yeti!
That was truly splendid, majestic and magnificent!
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handmade34 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 03:33 PM
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2. I am duly impressed and ready to go...
checked into tours... (Oh I can dream!!)

http://www.quasarchile.cl/observing_the_atacama_its_lands_and_skies.htm

I have always loved the night sky and bemoan the fact that so few people can enjoy it anymore (I was lucky to have spent many days in very rural areas without the city lights) but this video is super
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 06:48 PM
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3. That was so HUGE-ly gorgeous. Who knew?
The biggest night skies I have seen were crossing the Atlantic on a coal freighter, and being out in the desert east of Cairo.
But even then they were not that enormously lit up.

Thank you for posting this!
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HarveyDarkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 07:32 PM
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4. Wow, just Wow
that is all.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-10 11:30 PM
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5. I'd love to give astro photography a try, but the start up
cost is beyond me now.
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-10 05:56 AM
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6. I am in awe!
Thanks for sharing this with us.
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