Some pics from today's sunrise
Spent a chilly morning at the summit of Mount Haleakalā.
Here are four photographs:
Starting to show some light -- the tail of Scorpius is at the left standing straight up.
The sun finally peeks through -- some gorgeous colors.
Here are some of the observatories at the summit. The odd triangular-shaped dark shadow is the shadow of the mountain itself on the low cloud bank.
The summit of Mount Haleakalā is about 120 miles from the summit of Mauna Kea and the observatories there. This is just a quickie first-order enhancement but you can plainly see the structures on the summit of Mauna Kea.
The sequence of photographs I took before and during sunrise came out great. I will be stitching them together into a video when I get home. I have some software that can interpolate between frames so it should turn out nice and smooth (at the expense of a couple days processing on a fairly fast CPU).
Posted by DaveH at January 17, 2010 10:16 PM