Hubble Deep Field

Wikipedia: Hubble Deep Field

One of the coolest things ... ever.

Short caption if you're too busy to read the wiki:  Once the Hubble Telescope was finally up and running properly, its operators (out of boredom, i guess) pointed it at the darkest, emptiest, most devoid section of space they could find.  In other word, for all intents and purposes, they aimed the lens at the cold, black, nothingness of infinite space.

They exposed the image for 11 days, to capture the greatest amount of light possible, and with no nearby starlight to contaminate the expose, they ended up with this.  All of those 10,000 little specks, every single one of them, are a separate galaxy, previously undetected by humanity.  If you didn't feel utterly insignificant in the universe before ...

Like I said ... cool.

Dirty Zoe

 

So we have overcast skies today, giving us a welcome break from the heat, and my daughter says to me "Daddy, can I go outside to play?" I told her sure thing. A little later she says, "Daddy, can I play with my cars in the dirt?" I told her no problem. I see now I may have misunderstood what she meant by "in the dirt".  She was making roads for her hot wheels, which I thought was harmless enough, but turns out she may have been driving them with her nose.

Super Moon

Ok, this post is a little outside the scope of this blog.  I don't really do photography posts (mainly because I'm the exact opposite of a good photographer), but we were outside looking at the moon through my crappy 80 dollar telescope and I thought to myself "Self, what if you took your equally crappy 130 dollar wal-mart camera, held the aperture up to the eyepiece of the telescope and snapped a photo?"  Yea, I thought it was a silly idea, too, but guess what, it worked out averagely well.

Since I'm not a photographer and this is probably as close as I'll ever get to a telephoto lens shot, I was relatively pleased with the results and decided to share it with all of you.  Enjoy.