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Explanation:
Fix your camera to a tripod, lock the shutter open, and you can make an image of star trails – graceful concentric arcs traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis.

Of course, the length of the star trails will depend on the exposure time.
While exposures lasting just five minutes produce a significant arc, in about 12 hours a given star would trace out half a circle.
But in any long exposure, the background glow from light-polluted skies can build up to wash out the trails.

Still, astronomer Josch Hambsch produced this
stunning composite of star trails around the South Celestial Pole
with an effective “all night” exposure time of almost 11 hours.

To do it, he combined 128 consecutive five minute long digital exposures recorded in very dark night skies above Namibia.

In his final image, the background glow on the right is due in part to the faint, arcing Milky Way.

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Off to Coachella

Tom Sepe — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:00:02 +0000

We’re off to Coachella tomorrow.. installing two of Michael Christian’s sculptures: Hypha from BM 2005 and Flock from BM 2001 (most recently installed in front of City Hall, SF)

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I’m in the newspaper!

Tom Sepe — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:21:41 +0000

Check out the front page of the Food and Wine section in today’s SF Chronicle! or online at:

http://www.sfgate.com

THis link is only current for a day… use permenant link below:

permanent link to the article is here.

I did a photoshoot last week with SF Chronicle Photographer Craig Lee at the Crucible in West Oakland. I had to figure out how to hold a wine glass full of flaming liquid while breathing fire over it, without burning myself or destroying the wine glass! Well I never got hurt, but we shattered two glasses! However we managed to get some good shots in before the fireworks.

Thanks to Joshua David for being my fire-safety on this gig.

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Veggie-Oil Truck Panorama

Tom Sepe — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:15:05 +0000

Feb-Mar 2004

Hmmm… quite the maiden voyage for the veggie-oil powered suburban.
Mexico is a very large country. Driving across it took far longer than anticipated. And it certainly didn’t help that right before leaving the vehicle was modified to use vegetable oil as fuel… whew!

Read more about the trip & see pictures here.

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Blue Marble – High Resolution Earth From Space

Tom Sepe — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:50:48 +0000

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Pictures of our planet Earth – high resolution.

Nasa’s Blue Marble

1 km per pixel

amazing

beautiful

shocking

revealing

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_2002.html