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Apr 27, 2009 13:29 |  #1

Took this on Sunday night from the campgrounds at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

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Apr 27, 2009 13:44 |  #2

Nice composition and the exposure could not have been better.


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Apr 27, 2009 17:27 |  #3

I agree. Great work!


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Apr 27, 2009 22:43 |  #4

You did good ! You also have Mercury low below the Pleiades :D . I read about that at spaceweather.com .




  
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Apr 28, 2009 17:38 |  #5

Thanks for all the great comments! I didn't realize that was Mercury down below the Pleiades there; I hadn't kept up on where the planets were and didn't know it was visible at the time.


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Apr 28, 2009 20:17 as a reply to  @ kb9tdj's post |  #6

Great shot and a wild finish.....:cool:


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Apr 29, 2009 09:37 |  #7

MidnightSun wrote in post #7822209 (external link)
Great shot and a wild finish.....:cool:

Big time. See my pictures over in the motorsports forum....caught the wreck as well.


https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=684862


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