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The following post on photographing the night sky is by jgomez65 – one of dPS's forum members.
Several people asked me to post a simple tutorial on how I took some night sky pictures. I am not an astrophotographer in any way, shape or form, nor do I have any expensive equipment. I simply read several tutorials, picked a dark spot on the beach and tried to do my best.
Anyway, here is how I did it.
You need a camera that has manual exposure mode. Most SRL camera come with a feature called Bulb which does exactly that.
You will also need a remote control or a shutter release cable in order to minimize shaking the camera when taking the pictures.
You will definitely need a tripod
The darker the place, the better it is. Taking stars pictures in your back yard is possible, however for better results select a place away from city lights. Those lights tend to pollute the image and make the stars less visible.
First, try to use a lens with a large aperture. In my case I used a Sigma 28 mm lens at f/3.5
Next, set your camera at a high ISO. I tried with both 1,600 and 800 ISO and I got good results.
Finally, in order to avoid the star trail (that is avoiding capturing the movement of the stars as the earth rotates) you have to use the RULE of 600 which is very easy:
Divide 600 by the focal length of the lens you are using. In my case I divided 600/28 = 21.42 ( I can leave the shutter open for 21 seconds and avoid capturing the star trail)
Finally, put your lens in manual focusing and turn it to infinity focus (that would be the symbol at the end of the numbers on your lens)
Set the camera in your tripod and take at least 5 consecutive images at the stars using the correct exposure time (using the RULE of 600) Do not move the camera to a different spot or change the settings unless you are done with that series of pictures.
Tip: Every time I am done with a set of pictures, I place my hand in front of the lens and take another picture. That way I know that the picture where everything is black is where the series end.
Don't be disappointed if you don't see any color in your images. This is normal. You will need to bring the colors up in PS or any other editing software.
The first step is to stack the images. That is to superimpose one image on top of the others (not all the images, but pictures belonging to the same series). You can do this with a free software called Deep Sky Stacker. Just use the default settings on the software.
The final image will be a large TIF file that you will use to bring up the colors in Photoshop.
Next open your TIF file in Photoshop and edit the curves and levels. You can follow this easy tutorial on this video:
I also edited the blue, red and green colors in the level in order to make the nebula more visible.
That's it.
Here is the original image and the final result:
Joe - Images are stacked in order to increase the signal to noise ratio
Great article! Recently in Kona (where lights are dimmed because of the observatory on the island) I followed the 600 rule, 18mm, ISO 1200, and stacked myy shots. (Canon 50D, tripod, mirror lockup,etc) DSS worked well and I saved three of my stacked shots. My question is about PSE11. I don't seem to be able to adjust my levels. The video instruction above cites the Tab and select 'level'... there isn't one. Also cNTRL L for level adjustment... no go. HELP! Does PSE11 have this ability? My shots are nice and full of stars but flat and no depth or color.
Also, an app for IOS called "Starfinder" (free download last time I looked) can help with finding nebulas and the Milky Way so you shoot more than just a bunch of stars without depth.
Thanks for any help with the PSE 11 issue. I really appreciate it!
Thanks for that.
I've had a look at settings, but can't see any mention of a noise reduction filter.
A mate of mine has a more modern entry level camera like mine, so I will get a loan of that and try
If it makes a difference, then it may be time to get a new one.
I am guessing MarK, but it might be the 400d. This is a circa 2006 camera, and at 7 years old, I am going to suggest the noise is due to a sensor of meagre capability (signal to noise ratio at 800 ISO on almost any camera has improved by leaps and bounds since then). I wonder if you tried the same thing with a more modern camera with better noise control, if you'd have better results. ALSO, check to see if you have a noise reduction filter (a setting in your menu that may or may not be there) to ensure you do NOT have the filter on...it could be negating what you're doing). My final thought is DSS...with which I'm not familiar. I'm a PhotoShop guy and I got good results. What DID frustrate me about the demo above, is the image was in colour, but the tab in the curves menu in PhotoShop said "grey". I LIVE in PhotoShop and I have no idea how that is possible.
Hi, thanks for this post.
I have tried it though and failed miserably. Can you shed some light on what I may be doing wrong?
I have a Canon 400d with a 50mm lens. I kept the shutter open for 13 secs with f1.8 ISO 800.
When I loaded the 5 images into DSS, it said it could only use 1 of my images.
Have you any idea why? Were the other 4 too dark? If so, surely they'd all be dark?
I tried loading 1 image into photoshop and brightening it, but the amount of noise on the image was ridiculous.
Thanks for any advice/
Thanks for the information, I followed your instructions last night and got awesome results. I was able to get a series of photos from a clear, beatiful Maine autum night sky, that I'm very pleased with. Thanks!!
If you are referring to the examples in the above article, I think you need to realize these are small, web-friendly images, not the original, high resolution versions.
I think you'll find (if you read the initial article) there is a formula relating to your focal length/600 that tells you how many seconds your shutter can be opened to avoid blur/motion due to the rotation of the earth. If the camera you are using is of low quality, yes, you're going to see noise, but that is where the process of shooting a number of shots and stacking them helps. I shot my first astro shot recently when I was in Bermuda. The shot I have uploaded is only 4 megs (I shoot with a 25 MP camera and the original is huge). You can see it here: http://hopecreative.com/ASTRO_Bermuda_small.jpg
I think it turned out pretty well for a first attempt. Not blurry, not noisy and not "moved" (not sure what that means).
Hi, i am sorry for saying this, but the result picture is blury, moved and full of grain. Digital photography is a good place for experimenting but you need the knowledge to do some things. Off course you need a serious lens and for beginning you need an astronomy tripod. Earth moves! You can not shoot steady. Ph is not Harry Potter! This is a photographers opinion.
Thank you
I have a Olympus VR320 compact digital camera with 21 x optical zoom.
I would like to know the settings to capture the night sky....with stars n moon.
Any idea?
Thank u
I'm late to the game on this one, but I was camping this weekend and got some great opportunity to take some shots for this technique. I came home, loaded up my RAW files (they were a bit noisy due to the 1600 ISO I used) but I pressed on. I used the Deep Sky Stacker software and when it "stacked" them, they were offset by a little bit (due to the shift from taking a series of shots over 3 minutes). I thought it would correct for that but it didn't.
Any suggestions on that one?
Thanks Pete & Mark.
Mark, I thought that was the case. I kept thinking there is no way I'm going to take 5 shots in 21 seconds in the dark haha!
Can' t wait to give to ago and as I'm going to the Isle of Mull later in the year where the light pollution is virtually 0 I want to get some practice in!
Cheers guys.
Steve P
I don't know where the rule of 600 came from, but it does work. As you have worked it out, 21 seconds is the amount of each exposure.
You will need to take 5 (or more) photos each using this exposure. Any more than 21 seconds on each exposure and you will get star trail. You do not need to cram 5 shots into the 21 seconds, each shot needs to be 21 seconds.
Don't do what I did the other night though... worked out the exposure length of 15 seconds per shot, but then for some reason I zoomed in a bit more but didn't adjust the exposure time. Spent nearly 2 hours taking various sequences of shots only to find that I had star trail on each shot :(
well since the stars all shift rotationally. you could always shift the images to overlap perfectly. then the noise issue is solved and the least amount to trail would show. I would just experiment. shoot one at 21 seconds.
shoot one at 5 x that or 105 seconds. this would show the most and least amount of trail. I tend to like 1000 images showing the movement. a lot depends on how you are going to post process these as well. i hope i answered your question. experiment! Pete
Great tips on here!!
My question is on the 600 rule?
So it states "Divide 600 by the focal length of the lens you are using. In my case I divided 600/28 = 21.42 ( I can leave the shutter open for 21 seconds and avoid capturing the star trail)"
We then take 5 photo's. So, do I need to take 5 shots within 21 seconds to not get a trail?
Hoping for a simple answer on this please guys lol!
@Mark with long in camera processing.
Try turning off the cameras internal noise reduction system. That should help with processing time.
Thanks for this, something I've never tried, only done some low light photog up till now
I know the feeliing Mark. I dont have an answer, my GH1 and GH2 process for about the same length of time that the exposure is. Maybe someone out there knows a faster camera. ?
I have been an amateur astrophotographer for many years initially using hypersensitised colour film and exposures through a guided telescope of up to 3 hours. Now I am switching to digital (canon 500D). My current problem is the in-camera processing time for a long exposure, say 30 minutes. Does anyone know how to get around this.
Hey, this maybe a stupid question but when I watched your video I noticed that the image you were using was in grey scale rather than RGB. My Images is in RGB not grey scale and when I used the technique you suggested with curves and levels it just comes out extremely red and orange. Do you change your grey scale image to colour after you have applied curves and levels? Or am i doing something completely wrong.
You are right: *any* exposure of stars will show movement. The point is that the shorter the shooting time, the less movement is shown. This means that often star trails will look so short that you will not notice them (particularly with short focal lenses and no blow up of images). Also, shorter trails are easier to correct by specific software. You will find an older comment of mines here on November 11th where a page is linked with some hints on the subject.
Thanks for your reply - but the article is talking about exposure times of 21 seconds!?!? I thought that meant for each image? Or does it mean of total time from when you start taking photos to when you finish?
I understood the question. You would shoot them as quick as possible for the least movement. perhaps 10 images in a minutes time, if possible.
Pete - was that in answer to my question? If so, I think you've misunderstood me. I realise the stars move, I just don't understand how you can stack successive images WITHOUT getting movement.
If you shoot a lot of images, over a long period of time, you are making a motion "Time lapse" sequence, that can be sequenced easily in quicktime pro, for example. If you are wanting to just try to limit the amount of noise from low level light, then just a few pictures stacked will work. The stars are all moving, those further from the north star in our hemisphere move further. Consequently, lets say a 10 minute exposure would give a trail, 10 minutes in lenth, whereas a photo every minute for lets say 10 seconds in length, would give 10 stars with the same distance of the first example. My self, i like doing time lapse series, but you just need to go play!
I am a bit confused - can someone please help me?
To sum up my understanding: To avoid creating star trails you take successive exposures of a shorter duration and stack them. So my question is - wouldn't the successive exposures show the same movement of stars? And be misaligned if they were stacked? Or does the stacking program align them all perfectly again??
Just keep trying mark, I would bracket a couple of pictures first, and find which ones give you the best result, I am usually shooting about 30 second long exposures. My Lumix gh1 and gh2 take about the same length of time to write the image to memory before i can shoot again. The sharpest image usually results about mid-way of your aperture range, pehaps f8'ish. depending on whether you want star trails would determine whether you want the appearance of the continuing trails, or movement of stars which would lead you to longer exposures with a low ISO of 100 and possibly neutral density filters as well. Until you narrow in ONE image that gives you what you like you can waste a lot of time. (Typically i shoot about 3000 images in a time lapse). The Photoshop problem is frustrating as well, as i have about the same setup that you do with the i7 core and memory. I get memory errors and if i watch my Task Manager and memory usage, it i hardly being taxed, and i have played with many of the memory allocation settings without much help. Don't give up!
Thanks Zan, I did try the settings, but same thing. Weird as it loaded fine on a different machine with only 8 gigs of ram and much slower c2d chip. When I get a spare hour or two, I'll wipe it and re-install.
It's a shame the video didn't fully explain what the photo was of, and what settings were used, or even how many shots were taken. I can't see that there would be that much 'hidden' cloud and nebula on a 28mm shot of the night sky, it looks like it was more like 300mm, but then with the rule of 600, could you get that much info in 2 seconds???
Still, practice (patience and persistence) makes perfect as they say :)
@Mark - Seem here didn't work for on several tries. As for Photoshop (if you haven't tried it as yet) you can try manually adjusting your memory usage in the preference menu under the edit tab (it's located in performance).
I completely agree Pete.
I bought my Nikon D5000 as a kit, body and lens, the lense is a Nikon, so it should have been adjusted to suit the body. Without the moon present (or some other far off object), it's next to impossible to set the lens ready for infinity when it overshoots it.
I did try last night, got 5 or 6 good shots, but after stacking them and trying to load the 'large' tif file into Photoshop, I get a 'not enough ram' error and it won't load :( Strange considering this machine is a quad core i7 with 16 gigs of ram and TB's of HDD space available...
I managed to save a compressed image from the stacker which did load, but I could not get anywhere near the results of that video. Perhaps it didn't help that I had just a smidge of star trail (miss calculation on my part), but no nebula or anything, completely black. I'll have to give it another go next time it's clear...
i totally agree! So we need a mechanical stop, either home-made of manufactured into the lens
Once we know that spot, it wont change unless we put the lens on another body. I think if a camera is provided with a lens in a kit, it should be factory adjusted. The lens is always my most costly item, and i always hate changing to new name brand cameras!
Points taken.
Thanks Pete and Michael.
@Pete, I think I'll leave the lens as is, with my clumsy fingers, I'd ruin it for sure lol
@Michael, thanks for that suggestion. Unfortunately, when taking a picture of the night sky at 28mm, a 3 inch screen on the back of the camera does not give enough clarity to see if a pinprick of starlight is in focus or not - most stars are less than a pixel in size!
Well i do an awful lot of night photography and time-lapse videos, and i can tell you that when you go out on a foggy or overcast night with no light to focus on, you are pretty well up a creek without a paddle!
@ Pete and Mark.
Hate to oversimplify (but I'd do darn near anything before gluing something to one of my $1,200 lenses or worse.... taking it apart!!!)
Thank god we're not still shooting film. This is digital my friends. Fire a frame and look at the back of the camera! (Just sayin').
Yes and no Mark. This is really an issue with the manufacturers, and they should at least give a mechanical adjustment for infinity for users to allow for this. You could tape and glue something to the ring to stop it before it goes past focus. the other thought is to disassemble the lens and collimate it. there are a couple articles on youtube like this one: Agfa Isolette and Ansco Speedex Lens Collimating.wmv . http:// www youtube com/watch?v=XGu4HFm-JeI
i elect the first option and pressure on the camera makers!
Good luck,
Excellent tutorial, really looking forward to getting some great results.
I did try the other night (as it was nice and clear), and set the focus to infinity as suggested, but after taking 5 or 6 shots for each series (5), I excitedly loaded up the pictures to find that all the stars were out of focus!
At first I thought that maybe I had wound the focus to the wrong end as my lens does not have markings, but checking, it was definitely set to infinity. It was getting late after that, so I left it for another time.
I have found that winding the focus just back slightly is better on stars that can be seen with the naked eye as is the moon, but I have yet to check this due to light cloud coverage.
Any ideas?
It sounds like there is some intense confusion in your note. Your lens might be 100mm in focal length, but your aperture definitely is not. 100 is not a very likely aperture setting. Perhaps f/2.8, or f/5.6, or f/11, but not f/100. So, you must be referring to your shutter speed or your focal length. The 600 rule asks you to divide your focal length INTO 600, so if your lens IS 100 mm, you can leave the shutter open for 6 seconds maximum, with an aperture that offers a correct exposure.
You do not mention your exposure, so it is tough to tell what is happening with the "movement" of the stars.
I hope this is helpful.
The sky is nice and clear tonight and I think I got some cool shots, but I can't figure out the post processing. I have Photoshop CS2 and I'm trying to do the curves, but mine doesn't have grey as a choice. Only RBG and individually Red, Blue and Green. Also, when I do the levels, my levels show up already "toothsome". There are just 3 or 4 lines and no space before them on the black side. Anyway, I'm playing with it. Thanks for the tutorial. I am closer to it than I was!
So I just tried steps 1-4 and tried to stack my pictures in the suggested software, DeepSkyStacker. But what is this about "Dark Files", "Light Files", "Flat Files", etc? In Step 5 it sounds so easy but under the Help file in the software, it gets into some pretty deep descriptions. Is there a more "dumbed-down" way to process the pictures?
Also, I am using a lens with an aperture of 100. Based on the 600 rule, I kept my aperture opened accordingly and did this with 5 shots. However, I am using a Rebel T1i (not the best but not bad, either...I think). When I flip though my pictures one after the other in the picture browser, the stars move a little to the right from each picture. Even though I took them immediately in succession, it took my camera a few seconds to process until I could take the next picture. I assume if I can get the staking down pat :-), my pictures will still suck. Would it be better to take 10 pictures with 3 seconds each instead?
Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions!!!
I am just learning Lightroom 3. Can it be used instead of PS to adjust the curves and levels? Thanks for the article, by the way!
Hi all.
To eliminate camera shake without a shutter-release cable... just set the camera's auto-timer for a couple of seconds.
What time of year is best to get the Milky Way? I thought only summer. Can you please reply to Michael's question about not being able to find the grey channel in RGB, CMYK etc.
It is SELDOM that turning the lens all the way to infinity is actually in focus. This is due to compensation of manufacturing of lens / body / focal plane. Adjust for best focus on a distant object. This happens to be a pet peeve of mine, and i think lens's should be able to be consumer adjusted for this. Even Camcorders dont focus when zoomed to infinity.
Great article. Nice snap!
Great article! Thanks
Question, How long should you wait between shots?
Learned something new again today. Can't wait to try this technique. Hope the sky is clear tonight.
Great article, short and to the point. Will definitely be giving this a try.
@moshe. Thanks for this brother. I was trying to figure out why a sophisticated piece of software like PS could not do this. I appreciate you passing this along. Would love to know why the video demonstration of the "processing" was using a grey channel. My RGB shots have no grey channel and I was wondering about the comment beneath the video, "I also edited the blue, red and green colors in the level in order to make the nebula more visible." meant. If you have an RGB file, there is no grey. if you have a CMYK file, you have a black (not a grey) channel and then CMY (not RGB). As someone who LIVES in PhotoShop I am wondering a) what mode this demonstrator is in, and b) how NOONE with (potentially) lesser PS experience made mention of this in any comments above.
If you use Photoshop Extended, you don't need any additional software to perform the noise averaging. From Bridge, load all frames into layers: Tools->Photoshop->Load Files into Photoshop Layers... select all layers and align them: Edit->Auto-Align Layers... with all layers still selected, convert the whole stack into one Smart Object: right-click on any of the layers and select 'Convert to Smart Object'. Now select Stack Mode from the Layer menu: Layers->Smart Objects->Stack Mode. From the Stack Mode options, select Mean. That's all.
If you don't have the Extended version of Photoshop, you can still perform averaging by manually changing the opacity of the layers: bottom layer (layer No. 1) opacity = 100/1 = 100%. Above that (layer No. 2) opacity = 100/2 = 50%, and the third layer 100/3 = 33%, or generally, opacity = 100/Layer No. The blending mode should be 'Normal'. As you go up the stack, layers contribution drops. It is seldom worth it to use more than 10 layers, probably 5 will be sufficient.
Great results!!! What's the logic behind the 600 Rule? Thanks. Fine post.
Great results!!! What's the logic behind the 600 Rule? Thanks. Fine post.
Great article and starting point for astrophotography! I've since followed a web trail of dozens of helpful articles on this. On a recent trip to Big Bend National Park (very dark skies) I took a bunch of night time star shots that turned out "nice" but if I knew this information I could have done so much better. Thanks for writing this.
The video tutorial is a very impressive demonstration of multiple curve action in post production. Quite amazing.
RULE of 600 when traveling by airplane 680K,M.Per Hr. we see all movement in zero motion. isn't it ?
Great info..... One setting I havn't herd mention is mirror lock up! I mostly take night shots and use mirror lock up all the time! the rule of 600 is great! never used it but will in the future!
Happy shooting!!!!
That is inspiring! Makes me want to blow the dust off my 35mm camera and give it a try. As life is on a tight budget at the moment, does anyone know of free editing software that'd do the trick?
By the way, I'm sure that in the final image there is the face of a litle lamb just left of centre!
i have some questions which is maybe the same question to some readers' questions up there.
wouldn't we have a sharper image with a bigger amount of f/ stop (smaller diaphragm)? maybe f/11 or f/22?
i have a canon eos 400d which has a crop factor sensor. is the 600 rule available for my camera?
but they don't really matter. because photography is about exploring. so i just wanna try some shots with different settings and make my own rule.. lol
While reflex cameras are definitely the best tools for the job, still decent and rewarding results can be obtained with compact cameras. This is particularly true with many Canon models, thanks to the free Canon Hacker Development Kit software. Some time ago I published a couple of short primers with useful links on the field at http://www.millenuvole.org/i/s/fotografare_cielo_stellato_fotografia_notturna (it's a newsletter in Italian, actually) and http://www.kirpi.it/Photo/Star-sky-night-photography-tips (in English).
Awesum post....last night i shot the picture of MOon N star......today i go with this stuff n shot again...thnx for this post
Hi all, nice result OP.
There are several placed to find light poluition charts. I found a detailed google earth chart for the UK. (Cant find it at the moment)
but try this site to see if your planned photo site is a good area!
Great short article..definitely going to try it out..thank you...
The difficult part is setting the lens focus to infinity. What used to be a trivial thing in film days is not so trivial with digital cameras, especially at night. Most lenses focus setting ring (or other focus means) will travel beyond infinity, and the infinity mark on the lens (if there is one), can't be relied upon.
Your tips are very nice i will try its
Man, reading the DeepSkyStacker Quick Start Guide is kind of depressing. The author recommends taking hundreds of shots per set.
Excellent article. I did some internet search and found that there is an excellent software called Nebulosity - http://www.stark-labs.com/nebulosity.html - which does the same work as Deep Sky Stacker but works on a Mac and costs $60. However, it appears to support all the Canon cameras and some specialist cameras but not the Nikons (I own a Nikon D300s). I have not tried this out - just sharing what I found. I have asked them whether Nikons will be supported.
I found this program recently for stacking star photos on a mac. Its called StarStaX. There is a Flickr group dedicated to its use. I'm sure if you google it you can find the download. Its free.
Hello, that is a very nice work. Thanks for sharing the information.
All the best from Kuwait
This seems like an amazing software, along with the needed tutorial. I noticed all the listed applications for Windows, and nothing specific for Mac. Will this work on a Mac, or will it require a separate application? If so, I hope it comes out soon. How can we be notified when it does?
Fantastic details - I am going to try this and let you know how I get on.
I was wondering what "Most SRL camera come ..." was until I figured out SRL was supposed to be "SLR cameras".
I didn't know the 600 rule - I have had that problem in the past !
Thanks for this article. I've seen many great night skies from deep wilderness without realizing how easy it is to get shot like this. I'll be giving it a try soon.
Very interesting article, my first night shots were so bad, now I really want to practise !
Thank you for this how-to for astrophotography. I was hoping to be able to try this with a shot I took last night ( http://jasoncollinphotography.com/blog/2011/11/10/the-moon-besides-venus-astrophotography.html ) but I did not make multiple shots of it with the same framing.
The 600 rule is good to know.
I look forward to trying this once a Mac app is found that can do the stacking.
Thanks for the lovely article! It's really inspiring, I might wanna try this out in the cold nights :D
Nice, thanks, I was trying to remember the rule of 600 :)
But wouldn't you not have a sharper image stopping down the lens? like going from f/3.5 to f/8 ?
This is a great article and I too am interested in a product like Deep Sky Stacker for a Mac.
Thanks for the great tips.
Hi jgomez,
Thanks for the tips. Now that it is winter here in Montana, the nigh sky is filled with stars.
I downloaded startracker, and it calls for four types of shots to be stacked, light, dark, bias and something else. Do I need to use all four, or can I just use the five shots of the stars that you suggest?
@laelomo: The moon (specially a full moon) is actually much brighter than it seems. To get a decent moon-shot you need to go at it with speeds of about 1/1000s or even 1/1500s, almost as if you were shooting something with the sun on it (see the pic I posted above). Bottom line is, if you want to get a nicely exposed moon, the rest of the sky will be black. I have found no way around this but taking several exposures: one for the moon and one for everything else. In this case getting rid of moon-flare is hard; a ND filter can help but it is still not a perfect solution.
Wow, STRIKING!
Great article, very understandable and easy to read. Thank you so much!
Nice article! I will definitely try these advices, as so far I have been quite unsuccessful whenever taking pics of stars. I've had better luck with the moon, though:
@Jenn: The crop sensor doesn't change the rule, as the actual focal length is the same. 50mm is 50mm no matter what the size of your sensor is. The final result may "look" like it is been zoomed to 80mm, but it isn't. For instance there is no background compression.
Here is another bunch of software for Mac that can stack and process your images.
Keith's Image Stacker $15 - For stacking planetary images.
Lykenos $Free - Planetary image stacking and processing.
Astrostack $39 - Image stacking and processing.
PixInsight 171 Euros
Nebulosity works on Mac and can stack images similar to what Deep Sky Stacker does.
Before take a picture switch off the image stabilization. But if you use remote control the camera switch off this automatically.
Great tip to know!
This might be a silly question, but where does this RULE of 600 come from?
I don't quite understand why 600 is divided by the focal length.
would appreciate for some feedback!
Thank you very much! Great and simple article!
Thanks! I never knew there was a rule of 600. I used to do trial and error every time I shot the sky.
Any advice for shooting the moon? I get a lot of lens flare if the moon is in my shot
Thank you! Great timing on the article for me as I am headed to Yosemite over Thanksgiving and plan on trying some night photography.
Great article! I've never tried this before, and I can't wait to start. Is there anything for Mac? I've had no luck so far finding a program...THANKS!!!
Perfect time of year to start getting out and about! Living in the UK we've had a week of horrible cloud but this article is definately going on my stack of things to try before March next year before the early mornings start to return.
This is also called the Teapot with the steam rising at the end which is the Milkyway.
This looks to be the constellation `Sagitarius`
Jenn, you use the actual focal length of the lens.
Wow, very cool. Thanks for the info!
I love the simple way that night sky photography was explained. We get plenty of clear, cold, dark nights up where I live and I'm definitely going to give this a shot when I get an opportunity.
The included video on curves and levels in Photoshop was a great addition.
Thanks for the tutorial.
I see. Thanks!
@kris - using multiple shots lets you average out the noise thereby reducing it. DSS also allows you to include dark frames as well to remove the noise the semsor generates when it is not lit.
Why do you need to stack multiple images?
I don't understand what taking five different shots does for you that using multiple copies of the same shot wouldn't do with more accuracy. Please explain.
That's interesting, it made me take a picture of night sky after reading it...
I don't have the Deep Sky Stacker, i'll try to find a something like it that works on the mac :(
Here's what I got 50mm F1.8 800iso
Thanks. I'll try that 600 rule next time I am in Oregon.
Very awesome - I like to hang out with Astronomy Folks from time to time. They have all sorts of adaptors for their telescopes. Here in California, they have Sky Parties, Wine, Food, Scopes, Dark Skies.
Erik Kerstenbeck
Kerstenbeck Photographic Art
Really helpful article. Makes me want to shoot some night pictures.
Wow that image looks great, I thought I'd need expensive equipment to come up with an image like that!
Thanks for the step by step I've got no excuse to not give it a go...
Anything similar to Deep Sky Stacker for the MAC?
Wonderfully informative article, thanks! Just one question, about the rule of 600 - when using a body with a crop sensor, do you use the actual focal length of the lens, or the effective focal length?


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Last weekend, I gave an historic Karate photograph exhibit at Sensei Chuzo Kotaka's 48th All Hawaii State Karate-Do Championships at Manoa District Gym #2. See ikfhawaii.com. It was a very good opportunity to observe this tournament, which I believe is the largest in Hawaii.
Such a large tournament is a bit like being in an airport. There are announcements going on all the time. I don't know how everyone finds the right place to go, but they do.
Kotaka Sensei's family helped him, as did his students. On Friday, when the gym was being set up, Kotaka Sensei's students worked like a well disciplined army. Everyone knew exactly what to do, and did it.
The same was true the day of the tournament. It is like when you go to a really nice restaurant. Everything happens so smoothly that you are not aware of all the people working.
I was set up at the end of the gym, across from where the dignitaries were sitting. People were walking back and forth in front of my display. I had a table and chair and was near a ring where competitors did kobudo (mostly bo).
At one point, three cute little girls who studied Shotokan, came in front of my display and practiced kata. They were between the ages of 8 and 10. They were standing right in front of me, and would practice their kata perpendicular to the crowd. Thus, the people were walking back and forth and the little girls would practice their kata by moving out into the crowd and back.
It was the best! The girls would slightly adjust their timing so that they would not run into people, but they came very close. Many of the people walking were Karate students, but many others were parents and friends. They were not trying to avoid the little girls -- it was the girls who were avoiding them.
I enjoyed watching them immensely. I think that there should be an event for this. Have a mob of people walk all over a ring and have a competitor perform a kata without running into anyone!
I do not come from a tournament background. I have never competed in a single Karate tournament, and never intend to do so. While my way of doing Karate may differ somewhat, I respect the hard work and effort of all the competitors who came out for Kotaka Sensei's tournament. I am also very grateful to him for allowing me to display photos from the Hawaii Karate Museum.
I even got to see three of my good friends from the Hawaii Karate Kodanshakai: Sensei Joe Bunch, Sensei Lee Donohue, and Sensei Paul Ortino (who was visiting from Las Vegas). All three of these fine Sensei had students competing in the tournament.
Even now I smile when I think of those little girls practicing kata in a crowd.
Charles C. Goodin
Impressive Kata By 3 Little Girls
Last weekend, I gave an historic Karate photograph exhibit at Sensei Chuzo Kotaka's 48th All Hawaii State Karate-Do Championships at Manoa District Gym #2. See ikfhawaii.com. It was a very good opportunity to observe this tournament, which I believe is the largest in Hawaii.
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ACL2 can now use Ordered Binary Decision Diagram technology.
See bdd. There is also a proof-checker
bdd command.
ACL2 is now more respectful of the intention of the function
hide. In particular, it is more careful not to dive inside any
call of
hide during equality substitution and case splitting.
ld special (see ld)
ld-pre-eval-print may now be used
to turn off printing of input forms during processing of
encapsulate and
certify-book forms, by setting it to the value
:never, i.e.,
(set-ld-pre-eval-print :never state).
See ld-pre-eval-print.
The TUTORIAL documentation section has, with much help from Bill Young, been substantially improved to a bona fide introduction, and has been renamed acl2-tutorial.
The term pretty-printer has been modified to introduce
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Forward chaining and linear arithmetic now both benefit from the evaluation of ground subterms.
A new macro
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see set-inhibit-output-lst and see proof-tree.
The test for redundancy in definitions includes the guard and type declarations. See redundant-events.
See generalized-booleans for a discussion of a potential soundness problem for ACL2 related to the question: Which Common Lisp functions are known to return Boolean values?
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A bug has been fixed so that now, execution of
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Amarillo police said they arrested and charged a man with aggravated sexual assault of a child after a young girl told a staffer at her school that she had been assaulted.
Pah Pnah, 22, was arrested and booked into the Potter County Detention Center at 8 p.m. Friday on the charge after the girl told someone at the school she attends that Pnah had gotten into bed with her and engaged in sexual intercourse with her at a north Amarillo home earlier that day, police said.
The child was interviewed at The Bridge children's advocacy center, and police found Pnah in a vehicle in the 2400 block of East Amarillo Boulevard that afternoon, police said.
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Carroll County was well represented in this week's Miss Madison Regatta pageant. The present Miss Carroll County, Christin Stoops, and her immediate predecessor, 2009 Miss Carroll County Hayley Franklin, are the latest in a long line of Carroll County representatives to compete for the regatta crown. The most recent winner from this county was Dee Ann Patton, Miss Madison Reg
On Tuesday, Bedford Elementary School was abuzz with children, even though school has been out now for a couple weeks. The school is hosting the Trimble County Migrant Education summer program, which is intended to help children of families who have moved into the district within the past three years. Activities are designed to help children, from preschool and beyond, advance in
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To look at Kyndal Curry's high school resume of scholastic, athletic and extra-curricular activities and accomplishments would make one wonder when she makes time to eat and sleep. What is more remarkable is the fact that Curry's extensive resume has been written in three, not four, years of high school achievement. Nominated by
The Trimble Banner Meetings have been held monthly, teams have been chosen, yard sales, cookouts, bake sales and bike runs have been going on for months. All to benefit the 2010 Trimble County Relay for Life. Friday night will start the third continuous year in Trimble County. And it's the third year to use the front parking lot of Be
Will Yager is justifiably proud of his accomplishments in four years at Carroll County High School. Will represented his school and community capably in golf, contributed to a successful baseball program with his performances on the mound and had a stellar basketball career for the Panthers. The senior News-Democrat Student Athlete of the Yea
Zach Wise is a competitor. Watching him on the baseball field swing with power, run with a purpose, dive for fly balls, cheer for his teammates, it is easy to see the game is important to him. But what isn't seen is the emphasis Wise also places on academics and excelling in the classroom. Wise, a junior at Carroll County High School,
Four Carrollton brothers—James F., Joseph S., George W. and Albert N. Jett—formed a partnership in 1881 and started the Jett Brothers Distillery in Carrollton. With profits from their successful business endeavors the Jett family later established the first electric light plant in Carrollton. The distillery was located on pr
The Trimble Banner Ideas ranged from spending time with senior citizens and helping ensure children have something to eat over a weekend to helping with an organization that provides therapy to special-needs children through horses. Those were the projects that students in the Trimble County High School Teen Leadership Program either completed during the school year, or have comm
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Despite having enjoyed art classes as a high school student, it wasn't until about four years ago that Diana Sharber found her way back to that passion.
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With the account of the 1852 explosion of the steamboat Redstone last month I began a new series of monthly columns about historical events in Carroll County, called "Water Under the Bridge." I plan to continue researching events of local historical significance for those who enjoy an occasional blast from the past.
By PATTI CLARK Special to The News-Democrat Consider for a minute the construction of a new building. Potential new homeowners spend hours picking out the color of the paint, the type of light fixtures in each of the rooms, carpet and other flooring, even flowers for the landscap
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq visits NATO Headquarters
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari visited the NATO Headquarters on 11 May 2012 and met with NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow.
The Deputy Secretary General discussed with Minister Zebari ways to broaden and deepen the partnership with Iraq, including in areas such as defence institution building, education and training and counter-terrorism. They also exchanged views on a range of issues related to Iraq and the region.
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On Wednesday, October 22, 2008 around 3 p.m., Waterloo Police Officers responded to the 900 block of Linn Street on a report of shots fired.
During the course of the investigation officers determined that an altercation had taken place between two groups of people. One person from the first group of people displayed a handgun and began shooting at the other group of persons who were fleeing the area in their car. The gunman, now in a car, began chasing the second group and eventually rammed his car into their car. The two groups then separated and left the area.
Victim and witness information led officers to the person who had fired the gun. Officers arrested 20-year-old Norris Wendell McFarland of 153 Dawson Street in Waterloo and charged him with Going Armed with Intent and Intimidation with a Dangerous Weapon. McFarland is presently being held in the Black Hawk County Jail.
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Tourists flock to Las Vegas not only for the luxury hotels, live shows, and gambling, but also for the shopping. Many of the well-known casinos are linked to malls with shops catering to a wide variety of tastes, so winners don't have to carry all that cash around for long.
The Shoppes at the Palazzo are home to several trendy boutiques, while the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace attract celebrities who visit upscale stores like Lalique, Stuart Weitzman, and Louis Vuitton.
Retail and merchandising managers are key to the success of all these stores by ensuring that customers are pleased and sales are made.
Retail and Merchandising
Merchandising is most often associated with marketing a certain brand or company; for example, merchandisers may negotiate a contract with a film director to place their product in an upcoming movie. Retail, meanwhile, is the direct selling of products to consumers. Retail managers supervise other retail workers, and are responsible for scheduling, hiring, training, and firing employees.
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A bachelor's degree in business, merchandising or marketing is helpful to become a retail manager.
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UPDATE: This issue has been fixed in Visual Studio 11/NETFX45. As always, feedback is welcome! Please leave your comments in this blog post and report any bugs on Microsoft Connect. We've had a few reports of cases where Visual Studio, and previous versions of MSBuild, will build the projects in the solution in the… Read more
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- Home
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Financial Transparency Tool
Transparent Financial Reporting
In an effort to enhance transparency in financial reporting, the City of Modesto is offering an interactive reporting tool that allows citizens to explore the City's budget and actual data online. The City's new user-friendly tool will allow you to manipulate the data by viewing charts and graphs or downloading the information into an excel spreadsheet. The City has engaged Open Gov to assist with providing the public with this financial transparency tool that will provide detail financial data for both actual and budget.
Through the City's Financial Data Transparency Portal users can view financial data based on the current budget, current month and prior year annual data. The users can manipulate the data and drill down to predetermined details or scale up to the big picture. Users can also download the data as an excel spreadsheet to take home.
Visit the City of Modesto's Transparency Portal.
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Here are some general tips on how to use the Financial Transparency Portal.
Open Gov allows you to explore budget and historical finances in a simple graphical user interface.
- You'll notice the title of the Report you are viewing in the top left corner.
- Click on Saved on the left-hand side to view of common or favorite view on each report.
- Select Filter to display key menus.
- You can use the Show drop-down to select the data that is most interest to you.
- Use the Broken Down By drop-down to specify the category you would like the data organized by in your chart or graph.
- Select the Filtered By option to view the data filters. These filters will allow you select exactly which data you want to include, or exclude, from your graph or chart.
- Use the Search function within each filter to find exactly what you are looking for.
- If your organization has uploaded multiple years of data, a Fiscal Year slider will be present below the Filtered By menu. Move the sliders to choose the fiscal year(s) whose data you would like to see.
- There are 5 different types of visual representations of the data:
- A stacked percentage graph to see percentage changes over time.
- A stacked line graph to visualize overall trends over time.
- A line graph overlaying each trend over time.
- A pie chart to view percentage breakdowns by year. To view data for other years, move the slider below the pie chart.
- A bar chart comparing trends and percentage breakdowns over time.
- Below any chart or graph, you can view a Table detailing the financial information in the visualization above.
- Use the Help drop-down in the top right corner to:
- View a short How-To Guide with tips on navigating the platform.
- Recall the Welcome Screen.
- View a short Budget 101 primer with basic information on multi-fund accounting.
- Contact the administrators of the account.
- Use the Share drop-down in the top right corner to:
- Share your customized graph or chart through social media.
- Send a link to your customized graph or chart through email.
- Use the Download drop-down in the top right corner to:
- Download an image of the graph or table as a .PNG file.
- Download a spreadsheet as a .CSV file.
City of Modesto Specific Tips
- The City of Modesto's main fund is its General Fund. Most of its expenses come from this fund.
- The City of Modesto has several "restricted" Special Revenue funds. Expenditures from these funds are limited to restricted areas - for example, the Grant, Traffic Safety Fund or the Surface Transportation Fund.
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- A "Proprietary Fund" is either an Enterprise or Internal Service Fund. An Enterprise Fund represents a fund used for services provided to the public on a user charge basis. Examples include the Water, Sewer and Golf Fund. An Internal Service Funds are used internally to pay for specific items - employee benefits, general liability, IT are all examples of internal service funds.
- A "Fiduciary Fund" is a restricted fund for specific purposes. Here you will find various Joint Power Agencies and the Successor Redevelopment Agency.
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Tip: Spotlight searches with Boxcryptor
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I have been trying to get Boxcryptor to play nice with Spotlight but it has been a no go.
There is a way to turn it on. However, it has not worked for me.
I have found a work around with using the out-of-beta version 1 of Quicksilver. By putting the Boxcryptor volume into the Quicksilver catalog, I get an index of the Boxcryptor volume.
It is not a perfect solution. Searching for a folder when saving still requires Spotlight (which still won't work even if you have Quicksilver installed). However, this work around does the job if you are just looking for files on your hard drive.


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Pax is one of those seminal Andrew Hill albums that sat locked in Blue Note's vaults for a decade before the first five cuts here were finally released as part of a double-LP package in 1975 entitled One for One. The final pair, recorded at the same time, didn't see the light of day until they appeared on the limited-edition Mosaic Select Blue Note recordings a decade after that. The personnel on this disc is a dream band: Hill with Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis, and Joe Chambers. All of the these players but Hubbard had played with Hill before, and the telepathy is simply synchronistic. The opening cut, "Eris," is a sprawling blues clocking in at nearly 11 minutes. Full of Hill's knotty harmonics, and truly fiery playing by Hill and Hubbard, it's one of Hill's finest moments on record from the mid-'60s. "Calliope" is an off-kilter, medium tempo swing jam. There is a sense of time being stretched here that is simply uncanny. Of the two final tracks, being heard here by the general populace for the first time -- though this too is a limited edition in the Connoisseur Series (so the label can make you buy it again later in some other form) -- one was recorded sans horns. "Roots 'N' Herbs," (not Wayne Shorter's ) and the Afro-Cuban percussion and hypnotic bassline make it a curious midtempo ballad even as its meter shifts and floats and then becomes free before it enters the more conventional rock & roll backbeat rhythm pattern that Hill picks up on and stretches to the breaking point before it exhausts itself. The final cut is an interesting alternate of "Euterpe," which is not al that different from the first. In all, however, this is a semi-rough and wonderfully rowdy Hill date that deserves serious aural exploration. ~ Thom Jurek


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Boeing delivered the first of three modified C-40C transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) in February. The 932nd and 375th Airlift Wings will use the aircraft, a derivative of the Next-Generation 737-700 Boeing Business Jet, to transport congressional delegations and senior government personnel on official business. The modifications include military avionics that augment the commercial flight deck; a rewired interior that accommodates satellite communications equipment for passenger use; an interior that comprises 40 business-class
seats, two work areas with conference tables and accommodations for 11 crew members; and auxiliary fuel tanks that extend the aircraft's range to about 4,400 nautical miles. "To facilitate the assembly process, we leveraged the company's commercial 737 investment and infrastructure," said Ron Marcotte, vice president and general manager of Boeing Global Mobility Systems. "We then spent nine months modifying the aircraft to meet our AFRC customer's unique military and mission requirements, while retaining as much of the commercial aircraft as possible."


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In The Beginning
The Bible opens by saying, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The purpose of the creation account was not to answer twenty-first century scientific skeptics, but to teach the people of Israel about their God …Read More
The Dance of Life
The fall of Adam and Eve is one of the stickiest theological wickets we encounter in the Bible. How could both of them, whom God had declared good, do bad? But there is a stickier wicket still, perhaps made so …Read More


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Slippery Slope
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A Slippery Slope argument generally attempts to argue against one action "A" because of the belief that it will inevitably lead to a much worse effect "B." An example of this might be:
If you allow homosexuals to be married (A), the next thing you know they're going to have to let people marry other things like animals and trees (B)!
In this case the one presenting the argument skips over all of the intermediary steps necessary to get from "A" to "B." The conclusion in "slippery slope" arguments might be an actual concern of the arguer, but that doesn't mean we should assume "B" will follow from "A" especially if there are no obvious causes and effects linking "A" and "B" together.
In order to avoid this gap, the arguer may lay out their own string of causes and effects that lead from "A" to "B." Here's an example that might bridge the gap:
1. Allowing homosexuals to get married will destroy the traditional definition of marriage.
2. If we change the traditional definition of marriage to include homosexuals, then we'll be forced to open marriage to everything else.
3. If marriage is opened to everyone and everything, then people will be able to marry animals and trees!
Even though an argument might be successful in imagining a system of causes and effects in which "A" might eventually lead to "B" that doesn't mean the system is correct. There is no evidence that allowing gay marriage would actually lead to open marriage to anything. Nor is it even possible for plants or animals to enter into legally binding contracts or to sign a marriage license.
The general idea to understand about a "slippery slope" argument is that the arguer wants to make "A" look a lot worse than it would standing on its own and therefore discourage people supporting that proposition. Often times the claim that "B" will happen is unsupported by any actual evidence.


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Memorial prepares for snow
When severe winter weather hits, Memorial has a detailed plan for informing people about emergency closures.
Safety drives the decision on closures. When bad weather arrives, the decision to cancel classes or close the St. John's campus rests ultimately with the university president (or his/her designate, should he/she be out of town). The president receives advice from a number of university units, particularly Facilities Management, which remains in close contact with Environment Canada, the provincial Department of Works, Services and Transportation, and the RNC and RCMP as weather systems develop.
Similarly, in Corner Brook, the principal makes the call in consultation with the vice-principal and the director of Administration and Finance.
Since Memorial is a residential institution, it is a priority to maintain key operations and schedules, even when tasked with emergencies such as poor weather. The university doesn't close except under unusual circumstances. In the event of severe weather or other emergencies, if Memorial has to cancel classes or to close, information will be made available as quickly as possible through a variety of communications vehicles.
And with a population of more than 17,000 students, faculty and staff, news has to get out fast.
In St. John's, when closures happen midway through the day, a message is sent around campus as quickly as possible. It is phoned or faxed to student unions, faculties, schools, departments and divisions, e-mailed to 4,000 employees via MUN Newsline e-mail service, and posted to the today.mun.ca website, as well as the main university website, www.mun.ca. The same notice is posted to the snow cancellations site, which is accessible through the main Memorial page.
Similar actions are taken on the Corner Brook campus via e-mail, and information appears on www.swgc.mun.ca.
Information is also relayed to provincial media who are extremely co-operative in airing the news as soon as possible.
Early closings during daytime will be announced at least one hour in advance. Advisories for late openings and all-day closures will be issued by 7 a.m. In addition to contacting the media and posting information to the university website, the Division of Marketing and Communications and, at Grenfell College, the Division of Community Education and College Relations, also make early morning phone calls directly to the heads of key university/college units such as the Childcare Centre, the Marine Institute, The Works, the Pepsi Centre and other selected campus offices.
For more information on the university's emergency closing procedures, including what radio stations to listen to, visit www.mun.ca/main/closures.php.


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Maria Trumpler To Present Webinar On Gender, and Feminism in Food and Agriculture
Maria Trumpler is a fitting contributor to YCELP's webinar series Frontiers in Food and Agriculture. Here at Yale, she is the Director of the Office of LGBTQ Resources, and her teaching interests include gender and science, feminist critiques of science, scientific studies of sexuality, and food studies. During this workshop, Trumpler will address the impact of gender on agriculture as a practice, and she'll discuss gendered discourses surrounding the consumption of food. Her expertise helps us explore the interconnections between theory and practice in food justice.
In 1991, Trumpler received her PhD from Yale in History of Medicine and Life Science. After completing her PhD, Trumpler spent eight years teaching at Middlebury, Harvard, and Wesleyan, but left the academic scene to experiment with artisanal cheesemaking in Vermont. Through this work, Trumpler began to relate her interests in feminism, and food and agriculture. Eventually, she returned to Yale in the Women's Studies Department and currently teaches a lecture course on "Women, Food and Culture" and a seminar on the "History of Sexuality."
This expertise and these unique experiences will be an excellent addition to the third annual Policy Workshop Webinar Series: Frontiers in Food and Agriculture. You can register for Maria Trumpler's webinar by following this link: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/402736559.
Co-sponsored by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, the Yale Sustainable Food Project and the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School, this third annual webinar series highlights emerging issues in food and agriculture policy. The series is designed for academic and policy communities as well as the general public and is available to everyone online. The webinar format enables interested parties to access and participate in these presentations from anywhere in the world. The series is free and open to the public; presentation recordings are available online approximately one week after they air live. Find out more about the entire series here: Frontiers in Food and Agriculture.
Avana Andrade is a first year Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She earned her B.A. in International Studies and Western European History at Colorado State University in 2010. Before returning to school, she worked as a public historian and backcountry ranger with the Student Conservation Association and the National Park Service in both Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. Her work has focused on the history of grazing and cultural resource management in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Canyonlands National Park. Work and recreation on the Colorado Plateau motivates her primary interest in grad school, environmental conflict mediation. Avana is a Colorado native and an avid backpacker and gardener.


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India to Launch Asia's First Spacecraft to Mars
India is preparing to launch a spacecraft to Mars, a mission that if successful would propel it ahead of space rivals China and Japan. Ram Jakhu, a professor at Canada's McGill University, tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan how such programs can boost the economy and fight poverty.
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Howard tops Garner for St. Marys mayoral seat
St. Marys has a new mayor and a tight race in Fox Township ended with a six-vote margin at the conclusion of the Tuesday election.Bob Howard, who was once the mayor of Ridgway, was successful Tuesday in his campaign for mayor of St. Marys. He earned 1,460 votes, good enough to top Lyle H. Garner who had 1,083 votes.In Fox Township, incumbent supervisor Mike Keller appeared to have been defeated by six votes although numbers reported Tuesday are considered unofficial. Keller reportedly received 389 votes but was overrun by Cheryl A. Ruffner, who tallied 395 votes. There were five write-in votes.
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On Thursday, the Tampa Bay Times reported that Jill Kelley had told one of their reporters she had visited the White House in September. There was no record of her stepping through the doors in the official White House visitor logs, however.
Today, a White House official confirmed the visit to Politico— plus two other visits. One came as recently as Nov. 4, five days before Petraeus resigned, citing an affair with his biographer. Her twin sister, Natalie Khawam, joined her on at least two of these occasions.
And a bizarre story gets even more bizarre, and prompts another slew of questions.
Kelly is an Honorary Consul to South Korea, which is why she said she visited the White House in September. Politico's Donovan Slack reports what the White House says are the reasons for her other visits:
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According to a recently signed agreement, Swiss crop protection and seed giant Syngenta will pay $180 million for a 90% majority ownership position in each of the five member companies of Golden Harvest Seed Company. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Syngenta's acquisition of Garst Seed in early May. Taken together with its existing NK Seed business, the recent acquisitions could help Syngenta stay competitive with its number one and number two rivals in the seed business, Pioneer and Monsanto.
Syngenta, formed by the merger of Novartis and Zeneca Ag Products, already stands as the world's largest seller of crop protection products and the third largest seed company. Golden Harvest has a U.S. market share of 4% in corn and 3% in soybeans. Adding Golden Harvest raises Syngenta's current market share to approximately 15% in corn and 13% in soybeans.
While the Golden Harvest announcement surprised many in the industry, Syngenta had been dropping hints for more than a year about its intentions. As reported by FIN last September, Syngenta company officials meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, indicated that they were interested in acquiring other seed companies, citing a stronger financial position and a need to acquire a strong line of hybrids and varieties in southern, full-season U.S. markets.
Today, addressing the Golden Harvest agreement, Syngenta CEO Michael Pragnell stated, "This acquisition marks the completion of our strategy to develop critical mass in the U.S. corn and soybean seeds market, complementing our leading position in crop protection."


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First Meet of the New Year Will Be Held at Coxe Cage
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's track and field team, coming off a strong start to the season back on Dec. 3, will take to the track for the first time in 2012 when they host the Yale Invitational at Coxe Cage on Saturday. Though the meet is unscored, it will allow the Bulldogs to see how their training has progressed since December, and helps them prepare for upcoming scored meets later in the season.
The team's freshmen highlighted the first effort of the season, and they will expect to make contributions again on Saturday. They showed that they will have no problem adjusting to collegiate competition and will be a major source of points as the season develops. Hannah Alpert, Emily Cable, Anna Demaree, Alisha Jordan and Korbin Richards will look to improve upon their performances from the Season Opener. The first meet after a long winter break will help get the team back into a competitive mode, which will be important when the team faces Dartmouth and Columbia next weekend.
Additionally, the Yale Invitational will be the first track competition for Bulldog cross country runners, who sat out the Yale Season Opener to recover from their fall season.
Field events begin at 9:00 a.m. at Coxe Cage and the mile run will start the track events at 12:00 p.m. The meet website with a full event schedule, is available here. Buses for spectators will leave from Payne Whitney for Coxe Cage every 15 minutes. Results will be posted on www.yalebulldogs.com and www.tfrrs.org.
Report by Natalie Villa '13, Yale Sports Publicity