Here’s a very cool photograph of the colours that Spica twinkles.
Want to do it yourself? Just simply follow these instructions as shown to me by fellow astronomer Conna Bramley…
- Point your camera at the brightest star you can see, maybe Sirius or Spica.
- Set up for a long exposure, maybe 5 to 10 seconds.
- Open the shutter and move the camera around in various ways.
- Enjoy awesome colour lines like the one above!
I have no idea why I hadn’t thought of this before! Very cool.
Well done Julian! I hope to see more of these appearing on your blog in future! Haha :)
Beautiful! No more words.
Nice. I used a similar technique to write “floating messages” to the wife. Set up for the longest exposure time and write a message /reversed/ in the air using an LED penlight. Looks cool! Ill put a pic up later for you :)
Nice one Tim! Conna is a pro at doing messages like that ;)
As promised, link to photo: mallorca68.jpg (via flikr)