The Milky Way
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Taken near Topaz Lake on a moonless night. The exposure was about 45 minutes. This is adjusted to a tungsten white balance.
Always its shadows are insensibly altering, disappearing here, appearing there...
And just after sunset the reds deepen to dim purples and the grays and yellows and greens change to magical blues. In the dark of a moonless night the canyon suggests unimaginable mysteries :-)
National Park Service, Rules and Regulations: Grand Canyon National Park, 1920
A single exposure using my new Z-96K LED panel light. A special thanks to my contact Royce Bair for recommending it.
ΦΥΡΙΠΛΑΚΑ ΜΗΛΟΣ
Το εντυπωσιακό ηφαιστειακό τοπίο του μικρού αυτού κόλπου που ανηκει στην παραλια Φυρίπλακα της Μηλου ,μαγεύει τον επισκέπτη ακόμη περισσότερο σε μια ασεληνη νυχτα κατω απο την γαλαξιακη ζώνη του τοξότη!
The spectacular volcanic landscape of this small bay beach that belongs to Firiplaka Milos , enchants the visitor even more in a moonless night under the galactic zone archer!
1時間前まであたりは真っ白でしたのに、空は満天の星でした。相変わらずの強風でしたが、皆、夢中になって写真を撮りました。冬の天の川は華やかではありませんが、月のない空に描かれた天の川は美しかったです。
遠くに槍ヶ岳が見えます。
The sky was full of stars, even though it was pure white until an hour ago. It was a strong wind as usual, but everyone was absorbed in taking pictures. The Milky Way in winter is not gorgeous, but the Milky Way drawn in the moonless sky was beautiful.
Yarigatake can be seen in the distance.
Nikon D810
20.0 mm f/1.8
ƒ/1.8
20.0 mm
15
ISO1600
Hideous is this moonless night
Seen the dark force proliferating in distance
Photomanipulation
On Explore #494 3 April 2012
Yes, we do. Not only, when we are drunk, we do it all the time. The earth rotates, and this pretty fast (> 1000 km/h at the equator).
Well, we had a starry, moonless night today, as we didn't have for a long time. Of course, i set up my gear, went home, watched "Alien vs Predator II" on TV and picked my camera up afterwards. This is a stacked image out of 205 single exposures.
Explored! # 318, 03.04.2010
Standing still under the band of the Milky Way - the Celestial River of uncountable stars of our own Galaxy - this boat rests quietly on fine grains of sand created long ago. How long ago is exceedingly difficult to answer since the erosion of rocks and the formation of sand is an ongoing procedure.
Another interesting question is whether there are more grains of sand on all the beaches of Earth than there are stars in the whole Universe. And although one might argue that the stars probably outnumber the grains of sand, the only certain thing is that every single grain of sand and every single cell of our body, has been at some time part of a stellar interior, since all the heavy elements of the Universe have been created in the interiors of stars and have being ejected to interstellar space by exploding stars, only to be incorporated by next generation stars and ultimately into what now comprises our Solar system and our bodies. We are all made of stardust after all.
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Technical info and some personal thoughts:
Photographing the Milky Way from that place on the beach proved problematic, since the wide angle lens at f/2.8 captured an annoyingly great amount of light pollution from the distant village, even in ten-second exposures, so I had to take many shots to find the best settings, as a balance between capturing more of the starlight and less of the light pollution. Clearly not the best place to photograph the Milky Way, but it is so relaxing to be on a beach on a clear, moonless summer night, under the canopy of stars with no people around, contemplating the mysteries of the Universe, that I could not resist it!
Date: June 28th, 2020
Location: Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Greece
Camera: CANON EOS 550D
Lens: Tokina AT-X 11-16 F2.8 Pro DX II@14mm
SKY: 10 exposures x 10 sec each, ISO 6400, f/2.8, calibrated with separate darks and stacked in Sequator for reducing the noise and light pollution
FOREGROUND: 3 exposures x 2 mins each, ISO 1600, f/5, stacked in Photoshop
Final Composite image was done in PS CC 2020.
Processing: Sequator, Adobe LR, Photoshop CC 2020.
The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way and one of the most magnificent objects in the night sky. Visible as a faint small smudge from a dark site on a moonless night, M31 is a gigantic aggregation of hundreds of billions of stars at a distance of about 2.5 million light years.
Once thought to be a nebula inside our own Galaxy, its true nature was discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1925, which measured the distance of this "island universe" by studying a special class of pulsating stars known as Cepheids.
M31 is classified as a spiral galaxy with its galactic plane inclined about 13 degrees to our line of sight, and it is therefore seen nearly edge-on. It has, as our own Galaxy, a number of smaller satellite galaxies, the most prominent of which are M32 (the bright, star-like concentration at bottom right at the edge of the spiral arm) and M110, the more extended bright patch at upper left. Astronomers have found evidence of a massive black hole at the center of this galaxy (as is the case for our own Milky Way).
They have also calculated that we are in a collision course with our grand neighbor in space: approaching each other at a speed of about 100 Km/sec, the two galaxies will collide in about 4 billion years and maybe merge into a giant elliptical galaxy.
Image Details:
Telescope: Orion EON ED 80/500 refractor
Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW)
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da
Light frames: 19 x 3 mins (total: 57 mins), ISO 1600, Daylight WB, no filter
Guiding: Skywatcher 80/400 refractor, Skywatcher Synguider autoguider
Processing: DSS 3.3.4, Adobe Photoshop CS6
This picture was made during full moon from Sakrisoy., Lofoten Islands
There is an ongoing discussion about whether or not aurora photography is best done on a moonless night or with moonlight. Both certainly give a very different kind of atmosphere. For comparison see this picture (made in Finland) that I uploaded previously www.flickr.com/photos/145831439@N04/49957508296/in/datepo...
Pictures taken with moonlight can really show you the landscape whilst moonless pictures really show the aurora to its maximum. For everyone to decide but for me, both are a great subject!
when I hit the sand..its not for fun in the sun. getting my night moves on! Death Valley on a moonless night.
Information about this sim (in German): echtvirtuell.blogspot.com/2020/06/simtipp-moonless-design...
Feb. 26 just after midnight presented a frigid, moonless winter night sky in southwestern Virginia. More cold blasts with more snow on the weekend. A good bit of Jan. 16's snow remains on the ground, which is unusual for our part of the country. Nikon D850, manual mode, ISO 4500, 20 seconds, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 lens at f/2.8 and 15mm. Used Topaz Denoise on this, which removed a few stars but figured it was worth the loss to clean up. ©2022 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
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I, am the mystery
And I, am the bringer of moonless night
Bear the wisdom arcane
I, harbinger from the burrowed isle
Once you break forth
Hearken the flap of my wings
Haunt your fears
Though you don't know of my duty to lead
Your path, because I'll take, you home
To rest in my black wings, enfolding you
I am the icon sublime
The guide on the voyage, clandestine
Sing the verses bewailed
I, torch of the radiant way
Once you step out
Hearken the strokes of my wings
Once you will leave your cocoon
I will be there
Haunt your fears
Though you don't know of my duty to lead
Your path, because I'll take, you home
To rest in my black wings, enfolding you
And death will smile his barefaced smile
Initiating your final anguish
It is not before my arrival
That you will be lead to feel the natural serenity of leaving this world...
Hear my wings caressing the wind
Hear my cry
Haunt your fears
Though you don't know of my duty to lead
Your path, because I'll take, you home
To rest in my black wings, enfolding you
[Song: "Quoth the Raven" by Eluvietie , off the 2010 album Everything Remains ( As It Never Was)]
Taken at Sunny's : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Side%20Up/116/85/30
[pose- special Halloween]
First pic to hit 250 faves. Thank you.
One need not be a chamber—to be haunted—
One need not be a House—
The Brain—has Corridors surpassing
Material Place—
Far safer, of a Midnight—meeting
External Ghost—
Than an Interior—confronting—
That cooler—Host—
Far safer, through an Abbey—gallop—
The Stones a’chase—
Than moonless—One’s A’self encounter—
In lonesome place—
Ourself—behind Ourself—Concealed—
Should startle—most—
Assassin—hid in Our Apartment—
Be Horror’s least—
The Prudent—carries a Revolver—
He bolts the Door,
O’erlooking a Superior Spectre
More near—
-Emily Dickinson
NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece is a modern cultural and educational institution, which serves a major role in the dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge to the public since 2004.
The main attractions are the Technology Museum, including three permanent exhibitions (Ancient Greek Technology, Car showroom and the hands-on interactive Technopark), the Wide Screen Cinema projecting 2D and 3D films, the Virtual Reality Simulator and of course the Planetarium.
The Planetarium, recently upgraded with six high resolution laser projectors and powerful computer servers, offers its visitors a unique viewing experience under its huge hemispherical dome, displaying stunning astronomical representations. Both pre-recorded and live presentations, using the Uniview real-time astronomical software are presented.
Of course, as an amateur astronomer, I must admit that as much as I enjoy programming and projecting a digital sky full of stars, there is no substitute for the real thing: being under the stars on the clear, moonless night away from city lights.
If you ever come to Greece, a visit to NOESIS will certainly reward you.
My best wishes to everyone,
George B.
June 2021
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior spectre
More near.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Capture and edit by Orchid Arado
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HIGASHIYAMA ~imaginary Summer Meditation Japan~
more rippling
than flowing
carnival of colors
the city reflecting
upon itself,
nightbirds gone
to their brownstone
walkups to roost
and warm a can
of soup over a hotplate
and traffic of the stars
awash amidst the waves
that slosh under
the Du Sable Bridge
and all the tributaries
loop between the towers:
State and Michigan Avenue
Halstead and Wabash
moonless waters just
underneath and soft
song, a susurration
of a city drifting
off to sleep
--M deO
Fell or Tunturi are hills or mountains high enough to be above the tree line and have alpine tundra vegetation.
On a moonless night, the snow reflects the northern lights giving a surprising green glow to the landscape.
This picture was made on the way up near Saariselka in Finnish Lapland.
A bright and cold night at the Finnish Russian border on the Paatsjoki river near Nellim. This is a great place to look for the Northern Lights as there are no nearby towns/settlements causing light pollution. It was made on a moonless night with temperatures around minues 30 Celcius.
The Milky Way rises above the "Valley Of Dreams" in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.
After an extensive and confusing drive across the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness we arrived in the Valley Of Dreams. I started up the Giai GPS app and Wayne Pinkston, Chris Wrey, Sandra Herber and I started into the valley at around 4:00pm. After surveying the area and marking some of the more interesting formations, we returned to the cars for some snacks and rest. There were 4 in the group and at midnight we trekked off once again into the valley, although now its was very dark, so dark that without my headlamp on I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. The movie "Pitch Black" immediately came to mind, and the hair started to rise on the back of my neck. I scoured the area with my torchlight and moved on somewhat at comfort. As we crossed over the ravine and climbed up to the plateau I could here sounds like pebbles falling here and there which reminded me of another movie where a young Jedi is ambushed by the sand people. I think my imagination went into overdrive and I felt a rush of adrenaline. To my relief the path crested and we dropped into the "area of interest" which is a sprawling valley rutted with gutters and crevices as far as the eye could see with maligned and mutated shapes jutting up all over the place, except for now its just eerie shapes silhouetted against a starry sky so bright it almost makes you dizzy looking at it there on this dark moonless night.
We used one small 125 LED panel and bounched that light off some of the rocks off to the right side which picked up some of the color of the natural rock and casts that onto the scene. a tip learned from Wayne.
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At least it is for me. Last night was the first properly clear, moonless, windless night I've seen this year. The sky was a mass of stars so I just had to get out. This shot was taken looking east and showing part of the low arch of the Milky Way shortly before the galactic centre was visible. Single tracked shot of the sky blended with an untracked foreground.
Pretty stoked to catch a beautiful clear night sky from Takaka. I knew there was a chance for a moonless night so pretty happy I had to go outside to my camper else I probably would have forgotten. I did a little mission into a grassy paddock to catch this.
Check it out on my Society6 shop here. The rug is on my wishlist!
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Hope you're all happy and having a great day!
Amy Grant ~ Breath Of Heaven
I have traveled many moonless nights
Cold and weary with a babe inside
And I wonder what I've done
Holy father you have come
And chosen me now to carry your son
I am waiting in a silent prayer
I am frightened by the load I bear
In a world as cold as stone
Must I walk this path alone?
Be with me now
Be with me now
Breath of heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me
Breath of heaven
Breath of heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me your holiness
For you are holy
Breath of heaven
Do you wonder as you watch my face
If a wiser one should have had my place
But I offer all I am
For the mercy of your plan
Help me be strong
Help me be
Help me
Breath of heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near…
Flowers are blooming, sunny days are here. Lets take a little bike ride through the trails and stop to smell the flowers. Look, I can ride with no hands!
Credits:
Photo taken at Moonless
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Cathedral Spires trail in Custer State Park, SD.
Cropped slightly from a 360 x 180 degree panorama.
Multiple layers were shot at sunset, blue hour, and moonset to illuminate the landscape. Each of their individual hues can be seen painted across the spires in gold, blue, and orange. Then a moonless night sky was also shot around midnight to complete the sky.
~ Moonless Night from My Way of Seeing ~
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Laugh a lot and when you are old all your wrinkles will be in the right places.
I went down south to Bixby Bridge last night to do some night photography. It was the first clear moonless night in a while. I was able to get some of the Milky Way and a nice car streak that was not blown out to much. I exposed the foreground at f2.8 at ISO 2000 for 5 minutes and the sky at f3.5 at ISO 2000 for 30 seconds.
I would also like to thank Matt Walker for the inspiration for this photograph. Bixby and Beyond
It was moonless very dark autumn night. The powerful Aurora borealis shone beautifully in the company of the stars.
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A few pictures ago I talked about my not so perfect plan to get the Moon rising at this location with the Tetons... thus the title.
Milky Way - Martin's Beach, California.
This time of year you have to get up early to get the Milky Way good as it happens best between 3-5am in late April. Clear sky's finally arrived, along with moonless light pollution. I finally got to test out my new lens.
Saunders County, Nebraska
Another in my series of rural Nebraska churches photographed at night with the Milky Way. It's surprising how many nice old church buildings are in rural Nebraska. Most seem to be in areas where light pollution is low enough to be able to see the Milky Way on a clear moonless night.
I start watching the weather forecasts closely looking for a clear night when it starts to be in the portion of the month of the new moon. It seems like there might only be one or two such nights a month. It looked like this night was going to be the only one in May and it didn't look completely promising. But I started out around 9 pm to drive here. The farther I went the cloudier it got. I decided I would at least get pictures of the church. After getting those I started driving home and the farther south I went the clearer the sky got so when I got to Lincoln I kept going south to get away from the light pollution. I stopped about 20 miles south of Lincoln to take the Milky Way photos - about 50 miles from the church - but at least they were taken on the same night!
The building is an HDR bracketed exposure composite of 4 photos put together in Lightroom and the sky is a composite of 10 photos taken at 15 seconds, ISO 3200, for noise reduction. The sky photos were composited in Photoshop and the overall picture was composited in Photoshop.
I see you again I believe, in a sleepless night
Just by closing my eyes, blinding myself from the sky
But I have to get used to it, far from you I fall asleep
Inspired by Allen ZIMME poem
Thank you for viewing my latest image of the Jellyfish nebular. IC 443 is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini.
Photographed here in the Sierra Espada from my home obs.
HA, SII , OIII & RGB,. Under a moonless sky
Scope: Vixen VSD
Filters: Chroma RGBL HA OIII Chroma Technology Corp
CCD: Trius SX-46 Starlight Xpress Ltd
Mount. Paramount MX
Every image tells a story but when viewing this image you'd never guess how it came to be.
I was on a mission to get to the North Algodones Dunes Wilderness in Southern California on the Mexican border before Sunset... I left Phoenix Az. early enough, I thought, to drive the 211 miles, but I had only been there one other time and I thought I would have plenty of time to shoot the Sunset and then some...I was a bit off in my calculation.
I barely made it in time to capture just a few images before the Sun was gone and I was left standing there in darkness. On any other night, like a Moonless night, that would have been fine, but it was a full moon, and the clouds of a storm was moving fast across the desert.
I am happy with the images I was able to capture. Next time, I'll make sure I have plenty of time to travel the two-lane, winding road to get there.
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