night sky – Chad Dotson

ISS Flyover August 28, 2012

By chad August 29, 2012Photography, SpaceNo Comments

These pictures were taken during a flyover of the International Space Station on August 28, 2012. The one lesson learned from this set is that next time I want to take a series and stack them together for a picture that has the space station crossing the whole sky.

August 23/24, 2011 Star Trails

By chad August 24, 2011PhotographyNo Comments

I took this photo tonight. I used the same technique as I did in the previous post. This one is about a 50 minute one. For some reason my SLR powers off after about that long. I will need to find out how to turn that off before making longer…

August 21, 2011 Star Trails

By chad August 22, 2011PhotographyNo Comments

I took these photos last night with my Nikon D5000. I set it to take repeated 30 second exposures. I then overlaid the images using a command line bash script and Image Magick. The first is about 25 minutes worth of photos, the second is about 50 minutes worth. [singlepic…

New Night Sky Pictures

By chad December 11, 2009PhotographyNo Comments

Here are my latest night sky pictures. I took these December 10, 2009. The brightest with the star streaks was about a 30 minute exposure. The rest were around 15 second exposures with varying apertures and iso settings. [nggallery id=24]