skypointer2000
Nobody Looking
After a long day of skiing, normal people enjoy a tasty fondue or a glass of wine by a crackling open fire. Not so the dedicated night photographer: I went out into the 0° F cold night and clambered the mountains for 45 minutes to shoot the starry skies.
This image is a 9-panel 270° panorama, showing the former observatory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Arosa. The observatory is located on Tschuggen hill above Arosa, in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2050 meters.
Created in 1939, the site was, until 1980, concentrating on solar observations, in particular the corona, sunspots and solar eclipses. Today, the observatory is a vacation home with no astronomical purpose - what a pity!
I light painted the observatory with a single LED panel, while the snow cats grooming the slopes for another day of skiing, were lighting the mountains below the star filled skies. The yellow glow on the horizon is light pollution from the nearby Rhine Valley and the ski resort Lenzerheide.
Winter Milky Way with several deep sky objects (e.g. Rosette & California Nebulas) is clearly visible. Below the arch of Milky Way are the red nebulas of Orion, the open clusters Hyades and Pleiades in Taurus and the setting Triangulum and Andromeda Galaxies. On the very left, the constellation Leo is hosting bright Jupiter.
- Astro modified Canon EOS 6d
- Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
- 9 images of 30s @ ISO 3200
- Stiched with PTGui
Nobody Looking
After a long day of skiing, normal people enjoy a tasty fondue or a glass of wine by a crackling open fire. Not so the dedicated night photographer: I went out into the 0° F cold night and clambered the mountains for 45 minutes to shoot the starry skies.
This image is a 9-panel 270° panorama, showing the former observatory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Arosa. The observatory is located on Tschuggen hill above Arosa, in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2050 meters.
Created in 1939, the site was, until 1980, concentrating on solar observations, in particular the corona, sunspots and solar eclipses. Today, the observatory is a vacation home with no astronomical purpose - what a pity!
I light painted the observatory with a single LED panel, while the snow cats grooming the slopes for another day of skiing, were lighting the mountains below the star filled skies. The yellow glow on the horizon is light pollution from the nearby Rhine Valley and the ski resort Lenzerheide.
Winter Milky Way with several deep sky objects (e.g. Rosette & California Nebulas) is clearly visible. Below the arch of Milky Way are the red nebulas of Orion, the open clusters Hyades and Pleiades in Taurus and the setting Triangulum and Andromeda Galaxies. On the very left, the constellation Leo is hosting bright Jupiter.
- Astro modified Canon EOS 6d
- Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
- 9 images of 30s @ ISO 3200
- Stiched with PTGui