Awesome pic of the volcanic eruption in Iceland.

[dennilfloss]

Just beautiful.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Whoa!

You know you can embed pics right?

 

[MSCoder610]

Amazing pic.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Looks fake.

Damned awesome if it's not.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Interestingly it looks like this picture has a very long exposure but the lightening acted as a flash to freeze that one moment. Look at the sky - there are star streaks. Looks like a fairly long focal length, maybe 400mm, without bothering to do the maths on the star streaks I'd guess that was a ~5-15 second exposure. Neato.

 

[Locut0s]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr...625577&Signature=pi8C7pwORn1IdRxbwMDR3DwrZeo=

Just beautiful.

Do you have a link to the article the pic was from? I'd like to search for high rez versions of that!

 

[dennilfloss]

Twas Rosanne Cash who retweeted it from Roger Ebert.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that is awesome!

Volcanoes are actually quite awesome, but suck when they're too close.

 

[Fayd]

al-jazeera's pic for their story on the situation looks far cooler.

http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2010/04/201041822341405635.html

looks like something out of a fantasy movie.

 

[thescreensavers]

Dont you guys know its top gears fault?

 

[Rubycon]

Pure electrical storms occurring in volcanic ash fallout and/or severe dust storms are downright frightening!

 

[dennilfloss]

Pure electrical storms occurring in volcanic ash fallout and/or severe dust storms are downright frightening!

*ghost mode*

Boo!

 

[Sea Moose]

al-jazeera's pic for their story on the situation looks far cooler.

http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2010/04/201041822341405635.html

looks like something out of a fantasy movie.

What the hell where you looking at al-jazeera news for? Isnt that like a terrorist news network?

 

[Locut0s]

What the hell where you looking at al-jazeera news for? Isnt that like a terrorist news network?

It's the Arabic worlds CNN. No it's not the terrorists mouth piece despite common rumours. There has been some controversy but they are a surprisingly good news organization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljazeera

 

[grrl]

What the hell where you looking at al-jazeera news for? Isnt that like a terrorist news network?

I believe everything they say on Fox too.

Nice picture, but a higher resolution would be awesome.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

What the hell where you looking at al-jazeera news for? Isnt that like a terrorist news network?

And the dumbest post of the day award goes to....

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

dp

 

[Nemesis 1]

Pure electrical storms occurring in volcanic ash fallout and/or severe dust storms are downright frightening!

Someone with common sense, yes it is frightening . Those over exposed stars lol.

Thats debre from the eruption. This really isn't that big of eruption will see bigger.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Someone with common sense, yes it is frightening . Those over exposed stars lol.

Thats debre from the eruption. This really isn't that big of eruption will see bigger.

No, those are stars. If you think that's debris then maybe you shoul.... oh, it's Nemesis. Carry on.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Really . Look at pic @ 1920x 1080 . You can see in the ash forground same objects . Go ahead and look . count from bottom up 5 streaks . Its planely seen.Yes it is me Godless . Lok closer . I win . weres my cookie

 

[Jeff7]

Uh oh, Nemesising in progress.

Everywun kows thise

 

[Locut0s]

Really . Look at pic @ 1920x 1080 . You can see in the ash forground same objects . Go ahead and look . count from bottom up 5 streaks . Its planely seen.Yes it is me Godless . Lok closer . I win . weres my cookie

Yeah those are stars... wait it's Nemesis, whatever....

 

[Nemesis 1]

Yeah those are stars... wait it's Nemesis, whatever....

So that pic was exposed how long inorder for those stars to appear to streak

 

[Jeff7]

So that pic was exposed how long inorder for those stars to appear to streak

2,012 seconds.

 

[Nemesis 1]

OK so why did stars move that far in 2.012 seconds. Why to is the flum not blurring from 2.012 exposer. upper right side by small bolt your left why are those stars streaking vertical. Thats part of the bolt. I see that . Still the stars streak yet the flum doesn't perfet pic of flum no blurring that flum is not rising up yet the stars are moving . Ithought stars were stationary and flum was in motion