Bangalore Current Sky
Atoms with Consciousness and Matter with Curiousity
>> Friday, January 18, 2013
There are the rushing waves...
mountains of molecules,
each stupidly minding its own business...
trillions apart
...yet forming white surf in unison.
Ages on ages...
before any eyes could see...
year after year...
thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?
...on a dead planet
with no life to entertain.
Never at rest...
tortured by energy...
wasted prodigiously by the sun...
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.
Deep in the sea,
all molecules repeat
the patterns of another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves...
and a new dance starts.
Growing in size and complexity...
living things,
masses of atoms,
DNA, protein...
dancing a pattern ever more intricate.
Out of the cradle
onto dry land...
here it is standing...
atoms with consciousness
...matter with curiosity.
Stands at the sea...
wonders at wondering... I...
a universe of atoms...
an atom in the universe.
By : Richard P. Feynman
Source: "The Value of Science," address to the National Academy of Sciences (Autumn 1955)
Getting Started With Astrophotography
You need to follow four steps to astrophotography:
1. Focus,
2. Frame,
3. Test Exposures,
4. Start Exposure sequence.
In daylight photography all of these are done automatically for you, by the camera (except framing), but in astrophotography you need to keep the steps distinct.
You may like to see three videos which illustrate the above points in detail:
Part 1 -
Part 2 -
Part 3 -
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)