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Star Photography has been an old goal of mine, this isn't exactly IT but it's getting closer. It's amazing how a moonless, cityless night looks like, I saw three fast moving objects orbiting around, at least one must have been the ISS
From my recent trip up to the Pinnacles, north of Perth. Stars weren't really the aim of the trip, but when we got there the skies were clear, and it was a nearly moonless night. As we entered the park, the ranger saw my camera and said that there were a few others around planning on sticking around to take shots of the stars. That as all I needed to convince me it was a good idea.
There's a little bit of light on the rocks in the foreground from a car that was passing by.
"A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.” ― H.G. Wells
Of all the abandoned buildings that I have been to, I think this one is my favorite. I finally was brave enough to go out here in the dark, and maybe because I had moonlight to help me see... and now I realize that the moonlight was a little bit too bright, so I am going to have to become a little bit braver still and head out there again on a darker moonless night.
It's not Maine.... but it will have to do for now!
A circumpolar with clouds. ( Peguera - Berguedà - Catalonia).
Una circumpolar amb núvols. ( Peguera - Berguedà - Catalunya).
Una circumpolar con nubes. ( Peguera - Berguedà - Cataluña).
Dedicada :
Esta fotografía se la dedico a un buen amigo, Jesús López.
Nota: En el apartado comentarios de los visitantes hay una foto de la montaña sin iluminar, para que te hagas una idea de como estabamos a oscuras y si pulsas sobre la foto puedes ver ampliados los comentarios.
Información en Español:
Elegimos una noche sin Luna para hacer circumpolares, pero no contamos con que nos vendrian nubes, por lo que está realizada con nubes incluidas.
La fotografía está realizada en total oscuridad y no pudiendo encender ninguna luz para vernos, por que estamos captando la circumpolar.
La sola iluminación que utilicé era la de una potente luz artificial para iluminar la montaña y el paisaje.
.Si... si iluminar toda una montaña por zonas... verificar y tomar notas de donde no te salia montaña y vuelta a empezar.
En el apartado comentarios sobre la foto os pondré una del lugar sin iluminar, infundia mucho respeto y a mi espalda... el cementerio... jajaja si, si a la que se oia un ruido ponía los ojos muy abiertos para ver como los gatos. Jajaja.
Un saludo a todos. Antoni.
Dedicated:
I dedicate this photograph to a good friend, Jesús López.
Note: In the comments section of the visitors there is a photo of the mountain without lighting, so you can get an idea of how we were in the dark and if you click on the photo you can see the comments enlarged.
English Information:
We chose a moonless night to make circumpolars, but we do not have clouds that would come, so it is made with clouds included.
The photograph is taken in total darkness and can not turn on any light to see us, because we are capturing the circumpolar.
The only lighting I used was that of a powerful artificial light to illuminate the mountain and the landscape.
.Yes ... if you illuminate an entire mountain by areas ... verify and take notes of where you did not leave the mountain and start again.
In the comments section on the photo I will put one of the place without lighting, it infused a lot of respect and on my back ... the cemetery ... hahaha yes, if you heard a noise put your eyes wide open to see how cats . Hahaha.
Greetings to all. Antoni
Comet A3 is fading fast but still was visible in binoculars while overlooking Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Tech specs: RAW sub 9x30s, iso 800, f/5.6, FL 180mm, Fujifilm X-T5, PixInsight, Astrotrac 320X-AG. Fixed star with no comet drift in 4.5 minutes of integrated time. Bortle 5.5, transparency 8 of 10, clear moonless skies. Faint anti-tail still visible.
Colonnade Arch glows from within (Gary Clendening conceived and executed the lighting) under the colder glow of the Milky Way.
The lights of Moab create the glow on the horizon. Colonnade Arch is near Keg Knoll and on the western rim of the Green River Canyon. The Andromeda Galaxy is very close to third, smallest window.
Colonnade Arch, also known as Five Hole Arch, is described by geologists as a buttressed alcove, and has three windows looking to the south and two windows looking up--it is a fascinating structure with just one approach. It sits on the edge of a precipitous drop into Two Mile Canyon to the south and a view of the Green River to the southeast.
Gary Clendening and I checked the route during the day, recording GPS waypoints, and then walked returned on a moonless night at 2 AM, walking across slickrock for more than a mile. Quite an adventure.
Milky Way near Sagittarius constellation is pointing to center of our Galaxy. This part of Milky Way is most bright and dramatic. With moonless montane night landscape it create absolutely unreal picture something like eruption of Milky Way over Utah.
Canon 60Da, EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, 30.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 6400
Made from 4 light frames (captured with a Canon camera) by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.1. Algorithm: Median
Core of the Milky way and the Antares red giant over the mountains
And when it was done. Before the sun could rise.
Ashamed of what I was. Afraid to see your eyes.
I stood while you slept and whispered a goodbye.
And slipped into the dark beneath a moonless sky.
This was taken on a beautiful, clear and moonless night right after sunset at Clingman's Dome in the heart of the Great Smokie Mountains National Park. Both the comet and the Milky Way were visible to the eye, but more faint than what I captured on my Nikon Z6...the brilliance of "gathered light!" Several meteors are also visible in this image.
A train crosses Tulip Trestle in Greene County, IN about midnight on a clear moonless night in near total darkness. 45 second exposure.
This was taken at about 12,830 feet on Mt. Evans, Colorado near Idaho Springs. Mt. Evans is one of Colorado's famous fourteeners and overlooks the city of Denver. You can drive the switchbacks to the top on the highest paved road in North America and there are several beautiful places to take photos along the way. The weather was perfect...cold, a little hazy from the surrounding fires but no moon to compete with.
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After my third trip to Moab this spring, encountering rain and heavily clouded skies each time, finally got a chance to capture this view of the MW over Mesa Arch. Clearing clouds from an afternoon thunderstorm provided just the right amount of drama to add to the MW.
Technical: Rokinon 14 mm lens, 30 seconds @ f2.8, ISO3200, single image exposure. As the sky was moonless during the shot, light painting was used for the foreground. Light in the distance in the image is from the nearby town of Moab.
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Kitty è quasi completamente nera, come una notte senza luna, ma il suo cuore è luminoso come una giornata di sole!
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Kitty is almost completely black, like a moonless night, but her heart is as bright as a sunny day!
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. Dean Koontz
A fire lookout I do volunteer maintenance on in Washington's Pacific Northwest.
Mars was at opposition and brightening at retrograde.
I wish I could share with you the sense I get from sitting alone with my dog, asleep under my sweatshirt to my heart on a cool breezy night at the edge of the ocean -- the edge of the world where it rounds to the next. At the edge of an abyss. Staring at the stars on a clear moonless night, no matter the picture, they don't do justice to the beauty and serenity. It calms the beast, eases the frustration, quiets the screams, slows the pace, fools the anxiety. Despite the pangs of longing, more than I thought I would, more than I think I should, but not as much as I could. What drives me closer to the edge of infinite? What is this fascination? What would I give to be up there, farther away, and closer to nothing? Here I do find peace, if only briefly, to the tune of the wind and waves that accompany the sight of the stars. Yes... there is light in the infinite black.
The Warrumbungle Range is just west of Coonabarabran in New South Wales. The Siding Springs Observatory is set up on one section and has a number of telescopes for searching the heavens. One of the first views you get as you head west gives the impression of a number of mushrooms.
Beyond the observatory, the road leads to the National Park headquarters. The park features wonderful flora and fauna and many dramatic rock/mountain geological formations.
In 2016, it was named Australia's first International Dark Sky Park. Needless to say, the vista of the heavens, the Milky Way in particular on a dark moonless night are magnificent.
ᴄᴏsʏ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ʀᴏᴏᴍ sɴᴏᴡ ғᴀʟʟɪɴɢ
♬ᴄʜʀɪsᴛᴍᴀs ᴛʀᴇᴇ ʟᴏɢ ᴄᴀʙɪɴ sᴄʀᴇᴇɴsᴀᴠᴇʀ sᴄᴇɴᴇ - ғɪʀᴇ ᴄʀᴀᴄᴋʟɪɴɢ sᴏᴜɴᴅ - ᴄᴏsʏ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ʀᴏᴏᴍ sɴᴏᴡ ғᴀʟʟɪɴ♬
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NGC2070, The Tarantula Nebula, is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is located approximately 170000 light years away.
It has been several months of less than ideal conditions to setup for Deep Sky Astrophotography, so when we had a clear moonless night last night, I took the opportunity to capture a couple of hours on the Tarantula Nebula. I was concerned that as it had been quite a while since my last image, that I would have forgotten the process. The ASIAir and ZWO equipment worked like clockwork with no issues at all. I managed only 20 x 180 seconds (1 hour) each of Ha and Oiii, but am very happy with the final image.
Equipment Details:
•6 Inch GSO Ritchey-Chretien (RC) F9 1370mm Focal length
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•ZWO ASI1600mm Cmos Camera cooled to -10'c
•ZWO EFW7 Filter Wheel
•Baader 36mm unmounted Ha, Oiii
•Orion ST80 80mm Guide Scope
•ZWO ASI120mm mini Guide Camera
•ZWO ASIAIR Pro for full automation
Exposure Details: (HOO Combination
•Ha 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Red)
•Oiii 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Green)
•Oiii 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Blue)
Total Integration Time: 2 hours
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This is my first successful milky way full arch panorama. It took me about 3 hours and 138 exposures to complete. I could've probably finished earlier (considering the relatively short exposures) but I had to wait for a tourist bus to leave. Luckily for me, it was a moonless clear sky night all throughout.
The image is a panorama of 138 exposures. The magellanic clouds can be seen at the bottom of the sky, the ρ Ophiuchi cloud complex and the blue head horse nebula towards the left, Carina nebula (center), Ω Centauri globular cluster (center top) and the Centaurus A galaxy right above Ω Centauri (an almost indistinguishable smudge).
O ends of autumn, winters, springtimes drenched with mud,
Seasons that lull to sleep! I love you, I praise you
For enfolding my heart and mind thus
In a misty shroud and a filmy tomb.
On that vast plain where the cold south wind plays,
Where in the long, dark nights the weather-cock grows hoarse,
My soul spreads wide its raven wings
More easily than in the warm springtide.
Nothing is sweeter to a gloomy heart
On which the hoar-frost has long been falling,
Than the permanent aspect of your pale shadows,
O wan seasons, queens of our clime
— Unless it be to deaden suffering, side by side
In a casual bed, on a moonless night.
— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
- Tanslated by William Aggeler
A HDR of the nightsky tonight. Farther background shows the lights of the Swiss Capital of Bern.
I am still struggling a bit with sharpness in MF on my Samyang. Somehow LV brightness is different to what I knew from the 5DIII.
Gotta check it out.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the athmosphere ;-)
The first night was moonless, cloudless and in dark sky country east of the Sierras in California, the perfect conditions for Milky Way photography; however, the elevation created some issues that were not conducive to shooting that night. But not to worry, the Weather Channel says only 4% cloud cover expected the next day, so we planned on acclimating and trying again the next night. The photo here is late afternoon with a bit more than 4% clouds, which changed our plans. However, the sunset was magnificent! During our short stay of 3 nights we did not get to do our Milky Way shooting but the second and third nights had spectacular sunsets so we did not go away disappointed!
I traveled 6 miles north of Cheyenne under Bortle 4 skies to get away from city sky glow. Skies were perfectly clear and moonless with a slight breeze. I was able to see Comet Lemmon for the first time naked-eye and was able to record its ion (blue) and dust (yellow) tails.
This is a 45x25s stack using PixInsight, Fujifilm X-T5 and Nikkor 180mm lens. My setting were iso 1600, f-stop f/4.0, raw. I fixed comet and dimmed stars.
When I took a stack of 51x25s at iso 3200 and f/2.8, red airglow dominated and rended the stack useless. However, when using 10x25s subs, fixed on stars, the image turned out acceptable: www.flickr.com/photos/cloud_spirit/54868662286.
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Another clear and starry night was forecast - such a rarity in Cornwall this summer. So I took off with my camera to practice photographing the Milky Way again. Priest's Cove is the tiny fishing cove just below Cape Cornwall and I thought the boats might give some foreground interest. What I hadn't bargained for was that Land's End (the bright lights on the centre horizon), would be having a firework display which lit the sky with regular giant sparkles of coloured light. By the time that was over, the almost full moon was beginning to light up the sky, which subdued the stars quite a lot.
Note to self: wait for a moonless night!
Oceano Nox (Victor Hugo)
Oh ! combien de marins, combien de capitaines
Qui sont partis joyeux pour des courses lointaines,
Dans ce morne horizon se sont évanouis ?
Combien ont disparu, dure et triste fortune ?
Dans une mer sans fond, par une nuit sans lune,
Sous l’aveugle océan à jamais enfoui ?
(Free english translation)
Oceano Nox (Victor Hugo)
Oh ! how many sailors, how many captains
Who left joyfully for distant races,
In this bleak horizon have passed out?
How many have disappeared, hard and sad fortune?
In a bottomless sea, on a moonless night,
Under the blind ocean forever buried?
On a moonless night in MacTier, Ontario, a pair of Canadian Pacific trains meet in the inky darkness of northern Ontario. Having just relieved it's Cartier crew at the crew change point in town, Winnipeg to Toronto train no. 420 hasn't made it far before their next stop. Cooling their heels at the south siding for a meet with hotshot train no. 101, CP 6644 slumbers in the stillness of the night under the close guard of an ageing searchlight signal. Eventually, rails glow to life, the forest emerges from the darkness and the unmistakable whine of GEs approaches. Then, just as quick as they approached, once again fade into the dark as no. 101 screeches into MacTier for a crew change. Meanwhile, engineer Assad pays close attention, giving 101 a roll-by inspection. It's a good inspection. Highball, MacTier! And like that, 101 presses on towards Vancouver and 420 eases through Cottage Country for the overnight run into Toronto.
Arches national park is paradise for landscaping astrophotography. Every photo is unique in the park. A lot of absolutely unique landscapes and amazing dark sky. The natural moonless night sky is dark but not black; it is not even blue (no scattering light from sun and moon). Earth atmosphere generates green, red, orange, yellow light- Airglow! All these doing Arches national park is one of the best place for astroscape photography.
Airglow and Balanced Rock - Arches National Park. Canon 60Da, EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, 25.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 6400
Comet A3 is fading fast but still was visible in binoculars while overlooking Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Tech specs: RAW sub 10x13s, iso 500, f/2.8, FL 180mm x 2 (540mm effective focal length), Fujifilm X-T5, PixInsight, Astrotrac 320X-AG. Fixed star with no comet drift in 2.2 minutes of integrated time, cropped. Bortle 5.5, transparency 9 of 10, clear moonless skies.
Picture of the day
From Lost Lake, in the West Elk Mountains of western Colorado, the western edge of the sky looked like this at 3 am on September 29. The glow on the horizon is from the small towns of Paonia and Hotchkiss, 20 and 25 miles away, respectively. The ethereal stripe of color is the Milky Way, our galaxy; our solar system is on one of the 4 spiral arms, and the Milky Way is seen when we have a view toward the center of the Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy is to the left of the Milky Way, near the top of the photo. I was fortunate to have clear air, nearly cloudless sky, an elevation of 9,600 feet and a moonless few hours to see a bright, starry sky.
This one I saw with my eyes as I was out observing in the early morning for Leonids and saw this Taurid, and so did the camera. Nikon Z7II and Nikon 20 mm S F1.8 with interval timer.
Very bright, at the horizon over the mountains. Dark Moonless sky.
This is my brightest meteor so far for 2025, and one that I happened to see and experience with my eyes in the early morning as well capturing it with a camera.
I have been told wishes do not count if the meteor is only seen by the camera, but to see the fireball, I think I get a wish !