ON THE WEB: NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY ARCHIVEby JezzA big "thank you!" goes out to Zand this week for bringing us an incredible collection of photographs from NASA. Not only are the pictures fantastic, but each photo in the collection comes with an explanation written by a professional astronomer, so we can understand exactly what we are seeing. Zand came across the site after following a link while looking at pictures from the Hubble Telescope. If we are ever able to have pictures for our space locations, these photos are sure to provide some inspiration. Take a look at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html. I viewed some of the pictures and amongst my favorites were:
For any of you who might be amateur photographers out there, there is one picture that was taken with the very lowest tech camera you can imagine: Suspension Bridge Solargraph To quote the explanation given "the remarkable image was recorded with a simple pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper." The exposure time was 6 months and the photo tracks the path of the Sun from one vantage point over that time period. This is a truly remarkable collection of photographs. Great job, Zand! |