Comments on: Orion in the Mayan skies

By: A13jo

A13jo — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:29:32 +0000

tikal travel to next year at 20/12/12, obviously nothing will happen as speculated, but I want to be on that day with my telescope observing the heavens of my beloved Guatemala imagine being hundreds of years fall behind.

By: |Melvin

|Melvin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:08:47 +0000

|I am proud! I am white Mayan from Guatemala! Hooray Guatemala.

By: vesey

vesey — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:10:09 +0000

Reading all of the argumentative cultural posts, four things always end up happening if someone promotes or defends Western culture. (a) they get accused of racism (b) they get accused of ethno or Euro centrism, (c) any conquests by Europeans were based on racism while no suggestion is ever made that possibly the conquests by other races could have been racist and (d) Israel for some reason always gets trashed and it’s history denied or called into question……..nice pictures though !!!

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:42:36 +0000

Haw haw!

Prolly a French Canadian….

By: Canadian Wayne

Canadian Wayne — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:13:07 +0000

“kuhnigget” enough said.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:08:03 +0000

@ Wayne:

Oh-kay!

Thankfully, the good doctor is rather tolerant of free-flowing commentary. And since it’s his blog….

And you’re saying you wouldn’t bow to HRH Queen Liz? Tch tch! Bad Canadian Wayne! No OBE for you.

By: Canadian Wayne

Canadian Wayne — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:15:13 +0000

Thank you Stéphane. As for “kuhnigget”, you really understand what I said don’t you?! Thanks for your input. Nobody bows to anyone do they? If they do, then something is wrong… All I ask is keep to the subject matter. What a thought EH!

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:32:21 +0000

Et violà! De la bouche du maître!

Merci buttercups, Stéphane!

By: Stéphane Guisard

Stéphane Guisard — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:58:33 +0000

Hello everybody,

I am happy you like my pictures.

I have read quickly through the posts, though not extensively, and saw there were many questions about “how did he take this picture ?”.

Just a few things :

-All the other pictures are “one shot”. I do not compose pictures of a foreground with different background, that is not “ethical” to me. Northern pole rotation is a composition of many of these to get the start trail length; but all the other ones are actually unique single shots.
-for the skeptical, you can recognize most of these shots in the following time lapse movie (which means that these single shots were not even taken in RAW mode but only jpeg :0 !

http://astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/P112-P126.html

I am using a Canon5d MarkII camera and the 14 ane 24 mm lens from Canon at f2.8. ISO was high (3200-4000) and exp time short enough not too make too long trail in individual exposures (=between 15 and 30sec). Monuments are lit bu the Moon light.

Those having more technical questions, can find my email address at the bottom og my website :
http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard
I do not have time to answer very quickly but do try to always answer.

Best regards,

Stéphane

By: Miguel sague

Miguel sague — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:30:19 +0000

This stunning image of Orion above the Tikal temple pyramid brings to mind the ancient Maya traditional origin narration. In this story the primordial fireplace which was established just before the creation of the Universe was prepared through the use of a tripod made with three stones in the sky. This tripod created a triangle of stars inside which the creator deities lit the first fire. The stars are Alnitak, Rigel and Seiph. These three stars form a triangle within which lies the Orion Nebula. This dark region with its dimly sparkling bits of light presented to the ancient Mayas the smoky embers of the dying primordial fire.