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Alien landscapes - something completely different

Started by oliver_p, 09/24/2006 10:17AM
Posted 09/24/2006 10:17AM | Edited 09/24/2006 12:46PM Opening Post
Hi all,

here something different:
What can you do during a boring 12h business flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo ?
If you're lucky, you have a seat at the window, if you're more lucky the sight down is free from clouds and hopefully you brought your camera with you wink
Here some captures taken on February 26th somewhere above the north edge of Siberia at a flight height of about 10500m at ~1000km/h speed over ground. The landscapes below have a very extraterrestrial look making one dream of Mars or Saturn's moons. The quality of the results captured with my Kodak DX7630 through the plane windows turned out to be surprisingly good, here some alien landscapes smile







Some more can be seen at
http://www.astro-imaging.de/astro/alien_landscapes.html

Best wishes,
Oliver

http://www.astro-imaging.de/astro
Posted 09/24/2006 05:06PM #1
Hi Oliver - These are great! Thanks for sharing them.

Alan

Alan Friedman

http://www.avertedimagination.com
Posted 09/24/2006 06:40PM #2
Hi Oliver,
That looks like it was a very interesting flight!

Regards,
Ed Roach
Posted 09/25/2006 02:52AM #3
Hi Oliver,

Those are very alien looking landscapes alright, thanks for posting them.

Wes Higgins