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It's a beautiful image having the quality of capturing an astronomic event over time. Could it perhaps be used to tell us something about the solar system? I r
by kebman 6y ago
It's a beautiful image having the quality of capturing an astronomic event over time. Could it perhaps be used to tell us something about the solar system?
I remember my astronomy and maths teacher, Franck W. Pettersen, rest his soul, teaching us how to build a telescope from scratch. We got a long cardboard tube, and some other pieces that we put together quite cheaply. The most expensive part was the lens, which we put at the end of the tube.
Earlier he worked as the director of the Northeren Lights Planetarium in Tromsø, but he quit the job, citing that it was much more rewarding to teach astronomy and physics to pupils rather than showing tourists around.
It is perhaps unseremonious, but the first use the telescope saw, was us boys trying to peek at the girls at the neighbouring high school, three kilometres away at Kongsbakken (King's Hill) accross the sound. It was a success. We could even read what the teachers there wrote on the blackboards with it.
Personally I've always liked night photography, and I've spent many hours making time lapse photography of the Aurora Borealis phenomena that is so common in the North of Norway. However I think this image is a testament to how also daylight photography of certain phenomena might also be very beautiful, and even moving.