July 5, 2008 I had the pleasure of observing and photographing the stars at a local conservation area and dark sky site in Binbrook, Ontario, Canada. I imaged this scene with an unmodified Canon 40D, Sigma 17-70mm lens (17mm @f2.8) and standard camera tripod with no tracking. This is a stack of 15x20sec exposures @ ISO 800 on the Milkyway down to the tree line, and another single 20sec exposure on the rest of the landscape below to create a two frame composite. Stacking was done in Deep Sky Stacker and processing was done in PS with layers. I was really lucky that the the water was beautiful and still enough so that the stars casted a nice reflection in the water. In this shot you can also see Jupiter, various nebulas in the MilkyWay, Rho Ophiuchus and the light dome from a distant town. Published: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day SkyNews Photo of the week #349
A great site with a collection of space ship designs, art and concepts. Great for the inner geek in you.
d’bug has a nice writeup on recreating the search field using CSS.
Normally I wouldn’t be a giant fan of changing the default input/form fields in a browser. I think having those standards that everyone recognizes and know how to use is a powerful tool. Deviating too much from them is a risky proposition at times. At least in my opinion it is.
But that being said, his end result is nice. It seems to work. And as a concept piece it’s cool. Go check it out.