POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Trivial trigonometry : Re: Trivial trigonometry Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:23:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trivial trigonometry  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 30 Nov 2009 16:15:01
Message: <web.4b14356c6ad665b9833d20230@news.povray.org>
Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > Any expert photographers here want to comment?
>
> Servo motors work wonders, when you can gear them correctly.
>
> There are several tripod heads designed to track correctly against the
> spin of the earth, allowing for long exposures. Anything that works for
> for automatic telescopes can do the same work for a camera.

Yah... as Scott said, if it was done with a tracking mount then it must be a
composite, because both sky and ground are in focus.

I must try some sky photography sometime, though. :)


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