Saturday, June 14, 2014

Light Speed to the Milky Way

















I can't help it, this photo makes me think of the original Star Wars movies when the Millennium Falcon makes the jump to light speed.  This photo is a 30 second exposure of the Milky Way Galaxy. The streaking star effect was created by zooming the lens during the exposure.  For the first 15 seconds I let the camera record the image at 17mm, then for the next 15 seconds I very slowly and as steadily as I could zoomed the lens from 17 to 40mm.  I think the resulting effect is pretty darn cool!  Punch it Chewie!

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