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When I go looking for dark skies to provide some nightime entertainment, I usually end up in the desert. However, I have been somewhat obsessed with finding some nice body of water for some starry reflections. Just so you can appreciate, not only does the sky need to be relatively clear and pretty moonless and dark, but now I need water AND I do not need wind. Checklist complete.
Sticking out of the sand on a long smooth stretch of a desolate Florida beach (such things do exist!), this dinosaur-like, arboreal skeleton seemed poised to impale any unsuspecting midnight rider who would dare to venture out on a cloudy moonless night without proper means of illuminating his dash toward the piercing darkness.
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I didn't get to take many Milky Way shots last year.. 2 in total I think, so I'm looking forward to this season.
The landscape in the South Dakota Badlands has been compared to that of the Moon. So on this moonless night, it was easy to imagine that the Moon had fallen from the sky and was indeed beneath my feet.
I took 3 vertical images each for the sky and foreground. Sky images were tracked for 2 minutes each with the iOptron Pro at ISO 800. The foreground images were light painted with my flashlight and exposed for 2 minutes at ISO 2500.
Well last year actually. Another one taken from the middle of a paddock next to my friends place in Takaka, Golden Bay.
My phone fell out of my pocket part way, I was so lucky the screen was on else it would have been difficult to find it was so dark! I spent some time after that counting my lucky stars! There were a few 💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫
The red at the bottom is the glow from the lights of Takaka.
This is a couple of photos stitched together.
This image is from the first night we were at the City of Rocks State Park.
The days were scorching hot but the nights were spectacular. The air was still and it got nice and cool by about 10 pm.
It is a very unusual place, some mud flow from an ancient volcanic eruption has eroded and weathered over the eons and morphed into this assembly of free-standing rocks. The Milky Way was glistening in the moonless sky and Arcturus and Spica were blazing overhead. That is why I love to be out at night.
The Park was only sparsely populated with campers and everything was peaceful and quiet. Give me more of that.
Taken with the Rokinon 12 mm f2 at f2.8
I was amazed to see how much light noise was created by the city of Moab Utah, it does add to the shot on a moonless night.
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Color richest northern lights show I've ever seen. Taken on a moonless dark night.
ISO 800
f/2.8
8 sec
York County, Nebraska
Denton, 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.
The building is an HDR bracketed exposure composite of 5 photos put together in Lightroom and the sky is a composite of 8 photos taken at 20 seconds, ISO 1600, for noise reduction. Even though the city of York was about 10 miles away I could see the lights of the city from this spot and a major highway was just out of sight to the south. In addition, the lights on this church were very bright. So, the sky photos were taken 20 miles to the south to get away from the light pollution.
The sky photos were composited in Photoshop and the overall picture was composited in Photoshop.
Made from 20 light frames (captured with a Canon camera) by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.1. Algorithm: Mean
Another shot from Monday's clear moonless sky. The startrail exposures took around 30 minutes in total. Looking north from Cape Cornwall.
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I wandered deep where silence grows,
Through tangled thoughts and moonless lows,
His voice a whisper lost in mist,
A name the night refused to list.
I called through caverns carved by pain,
Where echoes wept like falling rain,
Each step a hope, each breath a plea—
To find the light he used to be.
But in his dusk, I saw a spark,
A flicker faint, defying dark.
And though he could not see me near,
I stayed, a lantern lit by fear.
For love will search where others flee,
And wait beside what cannot see.
*composed using AI with my thoughts
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Andromeda galaxy close to the lower part of the Milky Way, on a moonless, starry night, facing south.
It's coming to the end of the "Milky Way Season" and I've been waiting for a clear moonless night for a while now. The forecast looked good, so I decided to head out to Porthgwarra and walk up to Gwennap head to catch the stars just after sunset. It was such a beautiful clear night, the best for weeks. Unfortunately it was so windy I had to hunker down behind the coastwatch building just to be able to keep the tripod from flying away. Well, you can't have it all!
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was a beautiful moonless night in El Dorado Canyon, a perfect time in the Mojave Desert to light paint this classic Firestone Van, with the Milky Way, in the night sky.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light
- Lord Byron
After a day on the trail in the Virginia Highlands the crisp air and moonless sky yielded to a wonderful starry sky. At least at first. By the time I was bedding down for the evening on Wilburn Ridge a heavy dew was forming on everything. My lens was no exception. I felt fortunate to be able to salvage this image from what I thought surely was a lost night of shooting. I was able to clean up the files where it wasn't even visible but decided to include a little of it's soft focus effect to bring the memory back (at least for me). By morning the winds were howling up the mountain, driving with it a fog so thick it would condense on the inside of the tent and provide a gentile indoor (or in tent) rain that would strategically find a bare neck or ear to drop it's icy little gift upon. Surely it beats an alarm clock on a work day though.
489 stacked images 25 seconds at ISO 500 over 1 image of 25 seconds at ISO 5000 for the Milky Way. Roughly 3.5 hours of star trails with a view to the west.
Not enough bridge left to cross over. A little mist on the water. About 1am in the morning, freezing cold. You could see your breath. This spot is near a Resevoir in Colorado.
"More commonly known by it's Maori name of "Whio ", after the call of the male bird.
However I prefer its European name as it is so descriptive.
Very trusting and so vulnerable to a raft of predators.
So sad as I remember large groups of them as a boy.
I dont understand the gift God gave them but to witness them weaving through the overhanging trees on a moonless night along a bush stream is something to behold with only ones ears to track their progress.
I have been wanting to try to get a shot of the Milky Way for quite some time but had to wait for a clear, smokefree and moonless night. Well, it happened last night at Bass Lake, CA and this was the result.
at last a clear moonless night - the first in about a month - the milky way rises above the ridge line - the sky above on the left glows bright yellow from the light pollution coming from the city of Brisbane - the rest of the sky contains red and to a lesser extent green airglow.
This was created with one row of eight images taken in portrait and merged in Lightroom 6.
We had a great chance to be in Iceland in the period of the Northern Lights. The first days of our trip the activity of the solar wind was weak but then it becames moderate (Kp index = 6) and we could see this beautiful phenomenon in the sky almost cloudless.
The night was clear and moonless in Grundarfjörður at the north coast of the peninsula Snaefellsnes, Iceland.
Nous avons eu une grande chance d'être en Islande dans la période des aurores boréales. Les premiers jours de notre séjour l'activité du vent solaire était faible mais ensuite elle est devenue moderée (Kp index =6) et nous pouvions admirer ce magnifique phenoméne dans le ciel quasiment sans nuages.
La nuit était claire et sans lune à Grundarfjörður dans le nord de la peninsule Snaefellsnes, Islande.
Tales of Angels Fallen from Grace
Pray to find their way in the light
Hand in hand with whispers of dead innocence
I came to you a moonless night
This was a 45 minute exposure taken looking north from Topaz Lake in Nevada on a moonless night. The ambient light is from the town of Topaz which is about a mile behind where I was set up. This is edited in Lightroom as well with adjustments to white balance.
It was a clear and moonless night in Damüls so I had to try and get some astrophotography done. This is just outside the town where the trees where not very close to the path and one could see the sky well.
Taken on a Sony A6300 and a Samyang 8 mm, f/2.8 at 8 mm, f/2.8, 25 s, ISO 1600
They were scorching hot, those two days in June at the City of Rocks State Park in NM.
The nights were spectacular though, the air was still and it got nice and cool by about 10 pm.
It is a very unusual place, some mud flow from an ancient volcanic eruption has eroded and weathered over the eons and morphed into this assembly of free-standing rocks. The Milky Way was glistening in the moonless sky and Arcturus and Spica were blazing overhead. That is why I love to be out at night.
The rattlesnakes stayed under their rocks and the park was only sparsely populated with campers. Everything was peaceful and quiet.
Give me more of that.
The 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road are difficult to approach. The only real way down to the beach is down the Gibson Steps, cut into the limestone near the Gog & Magog seastacks. It's fun descending at 3am on a moonless night when the Milky Way is the only source of light!
To the right of the Milky Way are the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 160,000 light years away, and to the right of the LMC is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), all of 200,000 light years away.
Starting image in first comment below; see tags for processing hints. Peter Iredale shipwreck, Warrenton, Oregon OM12174HSS - Happy Sliders Sunday!
The astro shooting weather has been awful lately here in Auckland. Every moonless night seems windy/rainy/cloudy, and then as soon as that pesky moon comes back it's crisp, clear and calm!
I managed to get out for the few hours of clear sky we had last week, and shot a new 'Multiverse'. Still needs heaps more people I reckon, but I'm liking the sharpness of the Samyang 24mm t1.5.
Canon 6D | Samyang 24mm t1.5 @ t3 | 20 secs | ISO 8000 |
48 shots (6x4 plus 'observers') stitched in PTGui/ + LR/PS
Elephant Rock in Valley of Fire, Nevada. It was a beautiful moonless night, great for light painting and capturing the Milky Way. It is hard to believe that this wonderful place is just out side of Las Vegas.
was a beautiful moonless night in El Dorado Canyon, a perfect time in the Mojave Desert to light paint this classic VW Bug, with the Milky Way, in the night sky.
The last cycle with dark skies in July I re visited a favourite lake and saw a few stars. Mars is left and Saturn is centre more in reflection
The Whale Galaxy NGC 4627 and 4631. Imaging telescope : Ikharos 8" RC SXH18 CCD L600x40 bin2 + RGB & Ha. Integration around 16 hours shot under moonless condition in semi urban skies. Home obbs Valencia.
NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the appearance of a herring or a whale, hence its nickname. Because this nearby galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth, professional astronomers observe this galaxy to better understand the gas and stars located outside the plane of the galaxy.
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