Squiggles

[fivemack]

The subject is Vega, the instrument my New Shiny Lens (170-500 zoom, at the 500 end), the weak point in the process my hands, and the result a fine demonstration of Brownian motion:

I think I should add a Tripod of Inconceivable Rigidity to my shopping list, though it's not a bad squiggle as squiggles go. For objects bright enough to be exposed in a millisecond, the results can be better:

Comments

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I have some similar (cruder) pictures I took down at the Babraham Road P&R. It was quite good fun because without postprocessing all the images were black rectangles, :), here (http://pics.livejournal.com/kaet/gallery/000038gz).

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

There ought to be a way to use a squiggle like that as an encryption key.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[del-c.livejournal.com]

What's really impressive is that the camera is light-grabby enough that the line isn't invisible: every point on the squiggle is well defined.

Which suggests to me that Vega *is* bright enough to be exposed in a millisecond, albeit that the result would be no more interesting than a small dot of light in a field the size of the Moon one.

[aldabra]

Oooh, *jealous*.

You might be able to sell that first one, with the blurb; it'd go nicely alongside the series the Natural World shop does of X-rays of seashells and stuff.