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Why do I have this tendency to go to very dark places at night in search of starry shots? Okay, so I might get some shots I'm reasonably happy with, but is it really worth the spooking I give myself?!? I mean, who really needs to go halfway down the dark, dark steps at Dunluce on a moonless, pitch black night?
Although, now back home tucked up safe and warm, looking at this shot, I'm kind of glad I did. And, undoubtedly, I'll do something very similar very soon...
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I simply could not wait for moonless nights, so I gave it a try and took some sulphur and oxygen frames. The conditions were really not good and I will try this again later when the sky is better and without moon. But for the moment this will do :)
EQUIPMENT
Camera: SBIG STF-8300
Filters: Astronomik Ha, OIII, SII - 6nm
Telescope: TS ONTC 10" f4.7 Newton
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100 GTO
Guiding: Off axis with Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Pixinsight, Fitswork
DETAILS
Date: 27. + 29.09.2018
Location: My backyard
Exposures:
Ha: 9 x 1200 sec
OIII: 4 x 1200 sec
SII: 3 x 1200 sec
Binning: 1x1
CCD Temp: -20°C
Total integration time: 5.3 hours
This panorama is made of five vertical images.
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I have just returned from field work in South Australia. The clear night skies in some of these remote locations are breath taking. Here's a shot taken from near the shearers quarters where I was staying. The milky way was so clear with the moonless/ cloudless night.
Clear moonless nights haven't been many this year but it's alway worth waiting especially when it's a dark sky area with minimal light pollution.
Under a moonless night with minimal light pollution, CPKC 231 rapidly approaches a clear signal at ESS Glencoe as they do every bit of track speed (60mph) through here.
Train: CPKC 231 with KCSM 4750 (ES44AC) and CP 8609 (AC4400CW).
CPKC Windsor Subdivision
Glencoe, Ontario
NGC 2264 the Christmas Tree Cluster wide field.
RGB & HA. Under a moonless sky with an SQM reading of 20.77.
Scope: Vixen VSD
Filters: Chroma RGBL HA OIII Chroma Technology Corp
CCD: Trius SX-46 Starlight Xpress Ltd
Mount. Paramount MX
A 120-second exposure on a moonless autumn Saturday night on Jacksonville Beach in Florida. The green streaks on the lower rightr were from a gaggle of kids using glo-sticks while playing soccer in the dark. Camera was set on a sand-dune stairway guardrail; no tripod available. ©2024 | John M. Hudson
"Open all day and night year round, the tallest dunes in North America are the centerpiece in a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra. Experience a starry sky on moonless nights, or a surreal walk on the dunes under bright full moonlight." Copied from the National Park Service website. I'm standing in Medano Creek and the main dunes are behind me - stay tuned.
Went up to the foothills after quite some time. It was nice to be back under the stars for a while...A descending car on a road nearby nicely lit the gravel road in the foreground in perfect time.
I’ve been meaning to shoot this for over two years but never done it until last Sunday and it was a very clear, moonless night, the perfect opportunity to execute it.
There seems to be more airplane trails than stars over the London but still it is possible to get ST when pointing camera upwards. However, the number of visible stars in the night sky is comparable to the full Moon night somewhere outside the city lights.
125x30s at 14mm ISO200
One of my reasons behind my recent purchase of the Samyang lens was the hope I would enjoy some clear night skies up on the Northumbrian coast. The Tuesday delivered with a clear moonless night giving me views of the stars I rarely get to see. The decision to attempt a star trails shot was a spur of the moment thing, so glad I did as it turned out way better than a first attempt had any right to. I used Startrails free software to layer up the shots which were consecutive 30 second exposures lasting about 15 mins.
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M81, M82 & NGC3077 with a hint of flux nebular.
This image is a mosaic of three panels. M 81 and m82 shot using a 14" Newtonian from the home in Valencia and VSD astrograph
This image Contains: M81 and it's companion dwarf galaxy Holmberg IX, NGC 3034 and M 82. On a moonless night it is possible to catch a glimpse of the illusive flux nebular here in this rather light polluted sky.
M81 and M82 are a pair of galaxies in the constellation Ursa Major. Messier 81 and Messier 82 can both be viewed easily using binoculars and small telescopes.
Imaging telescope or lens:AG14
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX
camera: SX-46 with and SX Maxi wheel & SX814
Chroma LRGB & Ha CCD Filter set
Integration: +- 36 hours x 3
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia,
Spain
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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 4 photos put together in Lightroom and the sky is a composite of 8 photos taken at 20 seconds, ISO 1600, for noise reduction. The sky photos were taken 15 miles to the south to get away from the light pollution from Lincoln. I could not actually see the Milky Way at this location because of the light pollution but it would actually have been to the left of where I positioned it in this view of the church building - and mostly out of the frame of the picture.
The sky photos were composited in Photoshop and the overall picture was composited in Photoshop.
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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...
(By Lord Byron)
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On a cold, moonless night on the Crowsnest Subdivision, a venerable EMD SD40-2 and the sensor capabilities of my Canon EOS R5 were pushed to their limits.
With an extra 6,000 feet of tonnage out of Lethbridge (including an entire ballast train!), this lone 45-year-old locomotive faced the daunting task of hauling this massive load. Here, 5922 strains under the weight, engulfed in a thick cloud of exhaust as it shoves nearly 50 cars of mixed freight into the siding at Chokio.
From a nearby farmer’s field, I watched in awe as the scene unfolded. With virtually no available light — save for the soft glow reflecting off the snow and the locomotive’s headlights — I cranked my camera’s ISO to 8000, slowed the shutter to 1/6th of a second, opened the aperture to f/2, and hoped for the best. The resulting image was perhaps one of my most ambitious attempts to turn nothing into something.
And as for that aging EMD? Well, it performed just as its manufacturer intended. After dropping off nearly half its train, 5922 limbered out of Chokio and disappeared into the inky blackness, bound for points west.
On a moonless night, I walked into Hardings Beach in Cape Cod with my friends. Incredibly and phenomenally we saw Milky Way hanging straight in front of us. I set up mt cameras on a tripod and took shots. Milky Way, the galaxy including our Solar System, has 100 to 400 billion stars.
The Milky Way reflects in Tenaya Lake at Yosemite National Park on a moonless and very dark night. There was haze from several fires in the mountains which caused an odd yellowish color.
"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,"
The Milky Way, last friday morning around 05:00 A.M.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." (Psalm 19:1)
Milky Way core rising above the summit of Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, reflected in the Eibsee lake.
My first shot of the Milky Way and it took some planning! A dark sky is necessary to capture the faint light of the Milky Way so a cloudless and moonless sky is needed. We had to be there after sunset but before 10 pm as the lake is privately owned by the nearby hotel and closed to visitors at night. I used a star app to estimate the location of the Milky Way in the sky and was reasonably confident that it would be visible above the Zugspitze from the opposite side of the lake, but I wasn't expecting the core to be just above the summit, a real bonus!
It quickly darkened after sunset on the moonless night and we needed head torches to find our way. There were lots of frogs and toads on the path which weren't there during the day and we even saw a snake in the middle of the path with a suspicious bulge in its middle which we guessed was an unfortunate frog, so we were very glad to have our torches!
We found a spot by the lakeside and could hardly see the Milky Way before our eyes adjusted to the dark. I couldn't see anything in my viewfinder except for the light from the cablecar station at the top of the mountain. I blindly focused my lens manually at infinity, hoping that the stars and mountain would be in focus and took a long 25 second exposure - I was very pleased with the resulting image showing the Milky Way, the mountain and reflection in the lake, and I think the streaks in the sky are from meteors, not aircraft. On the way back the sky had darkened even more and I stopped to take another shot of the Milky Way above the trees and mountains.
Fujifilm XT3 with Samyang 12 mm F2.0 lens ISO 1600
Edited from raw image with Lightroom Classic on Macbook Air
This mosque has a beautiful rocky pavement, dates tree and beautiful Arab architect design. I wanted to capture the ancient depiction of the mosque and the only thing was missing was dark sky without moon, because ancient monuments becomes more elegant with dark sky. So I waited for moonless night and fortunately could capture this beautiful photo. Again, as I was not having good wide angle lens, I tool multiple shots to capture the entire beautiful mosque, tree and its rocky pavement.
In Northern Lights photography, exposure times are moderately long. I usually expose from a few seconds to half a minute.
The shutter speed varies depending on the amount of light. A moonless night, of course, requires a longer exposure time if you do not want to increase the ISO too high.
When using slow shutter speeds, shooting stars and other moving objects are often recorded in the photo. As shown in this photo. Shooting stars are a beautiful addition in to the night sky.
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Ancient Witnesses
As the stars rise, the stone remains — quiet, enduring, timeless.
These formations have watched the passage of millennia in silence, bearing witness to the slow arc of the cosmos above. I often wonder what stories they’d tell if they could speak — stories of fire, wind, and water… of creatures long gone… and now, of a lone photographer beneath their gaze.
Captured under a moonless sky, this is one of those nights where everything aligns — the air still, the Milky Way rising, and the sense that you’re standing in a place where time barely matters.
I return to these places not just to photograph them, but to feel something deeper — the connection between earth and sky, between the ancient and the now.
Milky way night sky stars over a small unnamed tombolo island in Lake Superior near Grand Marais, MN. Taken on a cold night in July before smoke from all the western wildfires this summer rolled in.
The Northern part of the Superior National Forest in Minnesota is 1 of only 14 places in the world designated by the International Dark Sky Association as a Dark Sky Sanctuary: "land that has an exceptional or distinguished quality of starry nights and a nocturnal environment". On clear moonless nights, the night sky in this area is amazing!
We had a few days away from Adelaide this week in this wonderful country accommodation at Shadow Creek in the middle of a vineyard in McLaren Vale.
I'm very very inexperienced in astro photography but I knew there was no moon and little light pollution so there was a chance if we got a clear night. Luckily we had one clear evening.
There's a lot that can go wrong when taking shots like this - and I have a dozen or more shots that just about exhaust the list of rookie errors. I did manage to get 2 or 3 that are keepers - even though I missed the end of the house in frame .. and a car came along right when shooting on the road that's lucky if it sees 3 cars a day!
Main thing is I learned a lot and hopefully retain that for the next time I get to do astro shoots.
Our modern DSLR cameras are amazing at information they pick up way beyond what our eyes see and how good they operate at high ISO.
Same night. Different angle.
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Gave a re-run to an older photograph, applying a different approach. Due to vignetting correction there is some noise in the lower corners, but anyway, I'd call it a day ;-)
El árbol del bien y del mal. (Peguera - Cataluña).
The tree of good and evil. (Peguera - Catalonia).
Català. Història d'una sessió nocturna:
Una fotografia realitzada lluny de casa, després d'unes hores de conducció per arribar a aquest paratge, com l'ull d'un volcà, envoltat de muntanyes i només acompanyats per les estels, cases abandonades i un estremidor silenci.
El lloc infonia un gran respecte per la negror d'una nit sense lluna i que disposàvem només de dues hores per capturar les estrelles abans que tornessin els núvols.
Sota les inclemències del temps, fred i amb una gran humitat que haviem de netejar sovint les lents per quedar entelades i per mes desgràcia ens va caure un xàfec ... encara sort que la càmera és resistent a l'aigua.
El lloc estava ple de grans gripaus, era com si vulguin veure en directe el xou de llums que utilitzem per a les preses.
Aquesta, va ser la ultima foto de la nit sota un fort aiguat, però vam aconseguir tancar la sessió ... arribant a casa a les cinc de la matinada.
Antoni Gallart.
Español. Historia de una sesión nocturna:
Una fotografía realizada lejos de casa, tras unas horas de conducción para llegar a este paraje, como el ojo de un volcán, rodeado de montañas y solo acompañados por las estrellas, casas abandonadas y un estremecedor silencio.
El lugar infundía un gran respeto por la negrura de una noche sin luna y que disponiamos solo de dos horas para capturar las estrellas antes de que volvieran los nubarrones.
Bajo las inclemencias del tiempo, frio y con una gran humedad que teniamos que limpiar a menudo las lentes por quedar empañadas y para mas desgrácia nos cayó un chaparrón... menos mal que la cámara es resistente al agua.
El lugar estaba plagado de grandes sapos, era como si quieran ver en directo el show de luces que utilizamos para las tomas.
Esta, fué la ultima foto de la noche bajo un fuerte aguacero, pero conseguimos cerrar la sesión... llegando a casa a las cinco de la madrugada.
Antoni Gallart.
English. History of a night session:
A photograph taken away from home, after a few hours of driving to get to this place, like the eye of a volcano, surrounded by mountains and only accompanied by the stars, abandoned houses and a shocking silence.
The place infused a great respect for the blackness of a moonless night and that we had only two hours to capture the stars before the clouds came back.
Under the inclemency of the weather, cold and with a great humidity that we had to clean the lenses often to get fogged and for more misfortune we fell down a shower ... luckily the camera is waterproof.
The place was full of big toads, it was as if they wanted to see live the light show we used for the shots.
This was the last photo of the night under a heavy downpour, but we managed to close the session ... arriving home at five in the morning.
Antoni Gallart
Vamos vamos que me las quitan de las manos.
No deje su charco sin luna.
Tengo de todos los tipos.
Por la compra de una luna llena regalo dos cuartos crecientes.
Cuartos menguantes para un ratito de melancolía.
Para grandes ejecutivos que necesitan volver a soñar.
Para los que prometan la luna a sus seres queridos.
Un saludo amigos.
Do not let your pool moonless.
I have all types.
By purchasing a full moon, two quarters free.
Declining moons for bit of melancholy.
For executives who need to dream big again.
For those who promise the moon to your loved ones.
Greetings friends.
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