amyth91
Road to milkyway
weather predictions said it's a clear night, so just could not miss the night to go out and shoot the sky. Had to go out and capture some data for the coming weeks as soon the moon will be out and you never know if the weather will be kind enough in future.
Went out to warkworth satellite station last night, which is a pretty decent dark spot, though you do have some light pollution from auckland in south and warkworth in north.
In this image the light pollution can be seen on both sides of the image, left being auckland and warkworth at right. You can see the Large and Small Magellan clouds to the left of the image and near the center if you look at the horizon you can see some green air glow.
So, the best area to shoot was west and overhead. Had a go at some long run data capture of the scorpio, but the conditions were not that great, there was moisture in the air and every now and then the lens fogged up, so we were getting on an average 3 shots before we had to defog the lens.
After all the data capture and as the MW was heading down, the clouds rolled in and we decided to packup, but before leaving had to go for a panorama, i thought the clouds would ruin it and cause banding issues but they turned out great.
Road to milkyway
weather predictions said it's a clear night, so just could not miss the night to go out and shoot the sky. Had to go out and capture some data for the coming weeks as soon the moon will be out and you never know if the weather will be kind enough in future.
Went out to warkworth satellite station last night, which is a pretty decent dark spot, though you do have some light pollution from auckland in south and warkworth in north.
In this image the light pollution can be seen on both sides of the image, left being auckland and warkworth at right. You can see the Large and Small Magellan clouds to the left of the image and near the center if you look at the horizon you can see some green air glow.
So, the best area to shoot was west and overhead. Had a go at some long run data capture of the scorpio, but the conditions were not that great, there was moisture in the air and every now and then the lens fogged up, so we were getting on an average 3 shots before we had to defog the lens.
After all the data capture and as the MW was heading down, the clouds rolled in and we decided to packup, but before leaving had to go for a panorama, i thought the clouds would ruin it and cause banding issues but they turned out great.