Georg R. Baumann
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I was wondering, what is the very best picture, regardless the category, regardless the gear, simply your personal ultimate Number One picture you have ever seen in your life?
So come on in and share your's as well!
In my case it is a picture shot from "Big Bear" <grins>, Ursa Major Constellation from 1996.
This was made from 342 exposures, whereby each exposure was between 15 and 40 minutes for 10 consecutive days. Separate pics were shot in ultraviolet, blue, red, and infrared light, then combined into a single color pic.
The picture is best to be understood as a "time maschine" allowing us to look back in time. What looks like an artist work for Startrek, in fact is a very narrow spot in the sky, a keyhole, consisting of ~1,500 Galaxies.
To make this more understandable, in other words, if you hold up a dime into the sky above you, and place it roughly 75 feet away from your point of view, this is the tiny spot of the total sky that this picture covers.
This is the deepest view into the Universe mankind ever made!
Because light travels 299,792.458 m/s, the word "deep" in this context means observing the faintest objects in the sky. This picture reflects the state of the Universe around one billion years after Big Bang.
You have to take into consideration that the total distance here is 2000 parsecs (6.500 light years), now because the speed of light, this immensity means that some of the galaxies in this picture do not exist any longer, because it took so long for the light to reach the Hubble Lense.
I remember well when that picture was released. I seriously thought this picture might have the power to change the world for good, well that is the idealist, the altruist in me I suppose, but I sincerely thought this would make a lasting impact on people all over the globe, of course I was wrong and the story and pictures of Anna Nicole Smith have a deeper Impact and lasting effect on people's life than this, obviously. <cynical grin>
Courtesy of: R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA
So come on in and share your's as well!
In my case it is a picture shot from "Big Bear" <grins>, Ursa Major Constellation from 1996.
This was made from 342 exposures, whereby each exposure was between 15 and 40 minutes for 10 consecutive days. Separate pics were shot in ultraviolet, blue, red, and infrared light, then combined into a single color pic.
The picture is best to be understood as a "time maschine" allowing us to look back in time. What looks like an artist work for Startrek, in fact is a very narrow spot in the sky, a keyhole, consisting of ~1,500 Galaxies.
To make this more understandable, in other words, if you hold up a dime into the sky above you, and place it roughly 75 feet away from your point of view, this is the tiny spot of the total sky that this picture covers.
This is the deepest view into the Universe mankind ever made!
Because light travels 299,792.458 m/s, the word "deep" in this context means observing the faintest objects in the sky. This picture reflects the state of the Universe around one billion years after Big Bang.
You have to take into consideration that the total distance here is 2000 parsecs (6.500 light years), now because the speed of light, this immensity means that some of the galaxies in this picture do not exist any longer, because it took so long for the light to reach the Hubble Lense.
I remember well when that picture was released. I seriously thought this picture might have the power to change the world for good, well that is the idealist, the altruist in me I suppose, but I sincerely thought this would make a lasting impact on people all over the globe, of course I was wrong and the story and pictures of Anna Nicole Smith have a deeper Impact and lasting effect on people's life than this, obviously. <cynical grin>
Courtesy of: R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA
