Category: Everything Else

Rainbow Water

This is from my second attempt at high-speed photography, trying to capture the moment a drop of water impacts a larger body of water. This turned out much better than my first attempt. I isolated the water from the background and added the rainbow colours in Adobe® Photoshop® during post-processing.

Inside the DDO

I had the opportunity on Saturday night to go inside the David Dunlap Observatory to see the telescope. At 74 inches (1.88 meters) in diameter and almost a foot thick, the mirror in this telescope makes it the largest in Canada. The entire telescope structure weighs 23 tons, including the two-ton mirror, and was built in 1935. It is completely mechanically operated – no computers! – and is rotated into position by physically turning wheels and pushing buttons.