How about a little change of pace?
As I often do, last night (March 27, 2019) I pointed my Canon T6 still camera with fisheye lens toward the night sky and let ‘er rip, continuously (exposing a couple thousand still images). Each exposure was 10 seconds, then to video. Here it is:
The long exposures mean the object was a point of light of a bright star’s luminosity. The faint streaks are its movements. As I say, I don’t know what it was and did not see it myself; although the dance was still going on when I came out to change the camera battery, I didn’t think to look up.
There’s a lesson in that.
Allan
If anyone wants to see all the footage from ‘A Sky Dance’, you can go here. I didn’t make it public because it might not be of general interest. I should also mention that I used the sound track music from Werner Herzog’s documentary, ‘Encounters at the End of the World,’ and left in some of Werner’s narration; it seemed to fit with the imagery. You can see his film free at Youtube. (With Herzog, you love him or hate him. I can go either way, depending on the film, although this one is a beaut.)
On the other end of the cosmic-aesthetic spectrum, here is a darker perspective on the ‘heavens’ above: Randall Carlson sums up his recent work via the ‘Suspicious Observers’ paradigm.
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