PXL Shots

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Well done, beautiful.

Lovely image.

very pretty

beautiful

stunning!

thnx everyone

beautiful!!

impresing

congratulations, well deserved!

Like how it silhouettes the trees

Very nicely done

great shot!

Great colours and nice sihoutettes.

beautiful light.

wow!lovely

Amazing shot

congratulations, well done

very nice

Simply awesome! (More than) well done, author!

Amazing image, nice capture of the lighting, well done ... did it reach shore??

awesome shot

Truly impressive.

very nice storm capture! well done

Awesome Shot

congratulations, terrific stuff!

you are one from Hubble team?

Ehm, how did you got this image author?

This was taken from my observatory using this http://www.scopetrader.com/Photography/Photos/8491785.jpg

One word: WOW

wow what a big one u have

This is not a picture of the "night sky." This is space. I'm also not sure these shots are possible from a terrestrial base.

I agree with Kyricom .

kyricom, shots like this, with this kind of equipment are possible. The scope tracks the planet or system it is looking at, which means the scope is moving very slowly too, and so the exposure will be as one taken from nearer the subject.I had a Meade scope a few years ago, with a tracking system, and what you can see is quite remarkable.

Folks, get real: if you take a macro lens to shoot a small detail of some texture, it's the same kind of magnification which appears here. Basically, it's just another lens pointing into the night sky and that's about it. This contestant is lucky enough to have a big gear to shoot stars in a "macro sense" and there's no need to twist the rules to "space or sky" -- looking into the sky with a regular lens is just a wide shot of the same scene. The photo has to be judged on photographical merits anyway. And @kyricom: check the web for terrestrial astro-photogs and your eyes may pop out. So...

if you google for "orion nebula hubble" you find lots of images taken from space. There you can easily notice that the nebula from Hubble is a lot sharper and shows more details. So I'm sure this was taken from the ground. It's a great shot, I envy the author for the gear.

Although if I had the gear, I wouldn't know where to point it at.

Looks like a giant pink jellyfish on steroids. Impressive image.

There is a difference between “space” and “night.” Night exists because it is contrasted with day. Space is always dark. When are these (and more importantly, the void between them) bathed in daylight? Saying it’s like a macro is inaccurate because the theme does not specify lens type or technique, only content. You could use macro, wide angle – whatever – but it has to be “night skies.” “Sky” is an important word. Sky exists in an atmosphere, space obviously doesn’t. Most entries are of the “sky,” through which you can see space. These pictures bypass the sky, and go into space.

wow, then it's AWESOME! i got to try this before i die

Theme says at least 50% sky. It's not the sky... there is no atmosphere ( and thus, no "sky" in these pictures = off theme

First off - I resent the implication that these are not my images - they are. Secondly, they are the night sky - as some posters have rightly said, you can only see them at night, and magnification is used to 'zoom in' on certain areas (although not as much as you might think). Technically there is no difference between my shots and the star trail photos that haven't attracted any complaints, other than the camera has 'followed' the stars as they appear to move around the Earth. But hey, I'm not a mod here, so if someone who feels jealous that they can't take photos like this objects.......

then who am I to complain.........

And if you want to see what really IS possible I suggest you look at http://www.ukastroimaging.co.uk (where I am a mod)

nice colors but, hm... i agree with kyricom... sky is "image" we see from earth and this is not, the theme is that "image" we see... sorry, my opinion.

I can understand why you might be upset, and I'm sorry. It's nothing personal and I really don't think jealousy enters in to it as I don't have anything entered in this contest, nor do I intend to. I never said they aren't nice shots. They are beautiful shots, just off theme. There is no sky. There is no atmosphere. That is the difference between the others and yours. These are shots of deep space. Space is not sky. Sorry

@kyricom: this is a warning. stop your rant, it is not welcome here. This entry is approved by moderation and if you don't like it, you're free to leave, as Mistermonty has said not long ago.

Incredible image and well in theme. This is a shot of the sky. To take this shot the author had to be looking up to the sky, fortunitly for him the quality of his equipment is far superior to most of ours. I also do agree it is a picture of space but this photo was taken from earth and not from space and so is an image of the sky. Its the same as someone taking a photo of the sky from a city and from the countryside the quality from the countryside would be far superior than the city with all its lights. Well done author.

Amazing entry.

very pretty

Love the blue sparkles.

Nicely done. I enjoy the detail and clear stars.

I have a feeling tis is what Gubbles had in mind when she set the topic., Great shot.

Best of the bunch.

Night sky photography is the way I would really like to go as a specialty. I'm kind of limited to 30 second exposures till I get set up for tracking with the stars.