From time to time one of the smokestacks burns with a flame from the oil refinery. And sometimes, it lights up the whole sky :)
This is more or less the view I had from uni a couple of days ago. It’s beautiful in its own way… And yesterday it was the lights minus the fire plus a red moon. SO AMAZING.
The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)
