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This is a 360 degree Panorama of the Aumndsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole Antarctica.
This was taken on 7-28 during the afternoon at a temperature of around -90F with a windchill of -130F. The moon in the shot was only a slight crescent but is incredibly bright. When the moon is not around we are surrounded by total darkness, unless we happen to be graced by a beautiful aurora! I was lucky enough to catch this nice aurora along with the moon. The moon is so bright down here that it mutes out the sky, making shots of stars quite difficult. I have to move very fast while taking photos down here as my batteries freeze quite quickly and even my tripod freezes and no longer will rotate... Normally I keep a headlamp with me, but this time I had forgotten it while in a rush to capture the dissipating aurora, so had to shoot with whatever I had last set the camera at, and had to hope i didn't bump the rings since i wouldn't be able to see to change anything. Unfortunately while walking out to this point to take the photos I bumped the focal ring on the lens and ever so slightly causing the pictures to bit out of focus, but the pano was so beautiful I couldn't just toss it. These images were taken with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II at 16mm, f-stop 2.8 for 30 second exposures. *edit: You can see each of the constellations drawn in over the skyline here: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=31101 |
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On May 6-7, 2008 UPCLOSE ran a two-day CAISE Inquiry Group on the topic of how to conceptualize and evaluate successful professional online learning communities, especially those serving the multidisciplinary field of informal science education (ISE).
A second goal was to exercise the new NSF/ISE guidelines for "Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Projects" http://www.informalscience.org/research/show/3643 by putting the Framework into practice with example research designs, instruments and metrics to assess the impact of recently funded professional online communities like http://InformalScience.org and http://InSci.org and http://ExhibitFiles.org This gigapan documents the discussion artifacts from BREAKOUT SESSION TWO which explored the appropriateness of the new Evaluation Guidelines for professional online community projects. See snapshots for more details. We are experimenting with sharing the breakout group discussion in this format. Please let us know your thoughts. |
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This is the same as my other pano with the exception that the good South Pole doc (grannydoc) went to the trouble of drawing in each of the constellations that are visible in the sky. You can see the same pano without the stars drawn in at my other pano:
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30450 |
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This august assemblage is a wide-ranging collection of scientists, researchers, technologists and artists who gathered to teach or be taught the GigaPan process as a new media tool for their vocations and avocations.
Puzzler: Everyone in this photo attended the conference, yet there are more people in this photo than conference attendees... |
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Schools out for summer, and it’s a Saturday, so virtually no one is in the photo. I wanted to get the courtyard below, so I rotated the gigapan 90 degrees so it pointed straight down. In this image the top left is the corner by the airplane, and the lower left to the top of the concert column on the right. There was a incredible amount of overlap towards the horizon, so the stitching there gets a bit crazy. |
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This is another Panorama of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. This one was taken technically on the 29th, the day after my previous similar shot. Though just barely, this shot was taken at 1 am.
This photo is however, very different. The moon is in front of the station in this shot rather than behind it, which makes the station look completely different. My other shot makes the station look very dark (which it is to provide heating through absorption of the sun's rays), whereas this one is very light, and almost all white. During the winter, the blowing snow sticks to the station making everything turn white. During the summer season it will not be cold enough to stick, and the sun is there to heat the special black siding also keeping the snow away. I Intentionally left the moon split between the pano, because I liked the effect . Unlike my other Pano, this one I remembered to bring my headlamp and make sure everything on the camera was set correctly, and thus this shot is actually in focus! You can clearly see the station details. This was again taken in temps around -90F. I've had multiple 360 pano attempts fail because the camera's batteries froze before i got spun all the way around :{ This was shot with a Canon EOS-1D Mark II, 16mm, f-stop 2.8 and 30 second exposures |
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The brutalist Wean Hall as seen late in the afternoon of 11 December 2007 from the Hamerschlag Hall parapet. Offers view of lower-deck parking lot and subterranean administration offices of the CMU SCS Machine Learning Department. |
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Photo taken in the lab while students were completing water tests after getting various water samples. |
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