Venus over Sun
70mm – ISO 200 – f/4.5 – 1/1000sec
Took the picture using a black polymer sun-filter which is used to normal viewing. Could not zoom in and take the pic coz of the small size of the filter (1x1cm). And NO, this is not a photoshop/gimp trick
Hey, good job.
Btw, what time did u take this pic?
Around 2:20pm IST
Your CCD still the same?
indeed.. I wish I had 2 polarizer filters but heck.. managed it with this filter.. though I had to build a custom cardboard around it to fit on the lens.
Well I have two polarizers BUT was to chicken to point my cam at the Sun….
Great work!!
neat one dude
I have been waiting for this all day. 🙂
Thanks
~ awesome ~
i so was hoping you’d get a pic! i’m adding this to my list of memories. great work kalyan!
You are lucky. I could not see it in hyderabad.
It was pretty cloudy here too.. managed to get this after a 2 hour wait
Thanks
Nice userpic. how did you create it ?
Kalyan, I knew you would be on top of it! Thank you so much!! I was looking forward to you having something for us.
*Great* work, but…
..there seems to be some dirt on the lens, not too much to the left of the center of the lens. :p
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carp.. never noticed it.. I think it came up in my last moon pic too 😉
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Maybe your camera doesn’t like astronomical bodies? To verify, go around taking pictures of what heavenly bodies you can find on Earth. I shall examine them all closely and tell you if this is the case.
Ah, what I wouldn’t do in the name of science.
Thanks…. no more astro events in coming months 🙁
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If you can convinence atul to model.. yeah I’m game 🙂
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Kalyan and Atul, sitting on a tree. Oh wait, that tree just fell.
[/me *runs* before Atul sees this]
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LOL!
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You can run, but you can’t hide.
Heck, you can’t even run! 😀
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sucks.. you do come back and check comments.
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[From afar, sticks tongue out]
*Phhhbbrrrrt*
Hah! Let’s see who can waddle faster.
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Of course I do. 🙂
Was waiting for this, and knew it was coming. Good one, dude.
Yeah, its real. I saw him taking da pic
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Oh, I can guarantee that you will *waddle* faster – you have more to lose if you go too slow 😉
It’s real, huh? So where’d he steal it from?
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Hey, just because you’ve got the *weight* to throw around don’t mean you have to!
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Just “weight” and see 😉
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Oh, gosh! You’ve caught the
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Heh – prolonged exposure does that to you.
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Even just a little can be lethal!
What do you call a pooch that smells polyethene bags?
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Kallu
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I was going to say “A packet sniffer”, but yours is better.
[/me runs, *again*]
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Hey wait – I am coming with you!
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Wait, we’re running from Kallu? Hahaha, tag-team time!
I’ll spray the floor with my amazing saliva-generating abilities. When he slips and falls, you can sit on him!
>:D
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You dont need to generate any saliva – Kallu is fully capable of slipping and falling all on his own, without any help.
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As
After a few minutes’ worth of embarassed silence, we all go home.
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If I sit on Kallu, he won’t scream in agony. He won’t make a sound. Except a mild, crackling one. Sort of like splintering bamboo.
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That was graphic. 😀
I wonder which one of us he’ll kill first when he reads this thread. 10 bucks says it’s you. Kalyan, kill him first, I’ll give you 10 bucks!
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Get a room you two.
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He has been trying for the past half decade. He knows he can’t.
And he also knows that you dont have 10 bucks.
You better start running again 😉
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What for?
*innocent look*
Is yours free?
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Heh – you finally noticed.
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*Puff* *pant*, I quit. 🙂
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ROFLMAO
Like this….
I used a filter called Pixelate -> Mosaic in Adobe Photoshop 7.0, created 4 images with different cell sizes, imported them into Adobe ImageReady 7.0 as frames and saved it as a gif.
😀
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Wont it churn out COLORED images ? Does color loss occur ?
yup.. sort like wats already mentioned. Just that I use GiMP 2 mostly. So u pick an image > Filters > Blur > Pixelize. Copy paste as layers (don’t merge them tho’) and save the gif as animation.
As always, color gets affected when saving as gif.
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Nope, there is no color loss, it will work with color images as well as it does with grayscale, I just converted it to grayscale because‘s userpic was the same and I was using that as a reference.