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No Milky Way for me!
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I can definitely recommend shooting the nature in the moonlight! It is an almost surreal experience. This one was taken in the Glaskogen nature reservation.
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I’ve never shot sunrise here and always wanted to give it a try. I’ve done astro under the moon, and that was alright. The textures lend well to any type of high contrast light, but at night you can’t really see the display of colors that this place offers. Sunrise can be a challenge in Death Valley as there are rarely clouds. The annual precipitation here is around 2.4 inches, and this day it rained. The front coming in glowed orange as the sun rose, but this is a twilight shot. The horizon is glowing but the stars are still out, which is what gives a nice diffused light on the landscape, while allowing us to still see the stars. I like to imagine what a flash flood might look like in the creek bed below.
There is no Heaven to go to, because we’re in it already. We’re in hell, too. They coexist. Right beside each other. And God is the land.
"1883"
Da sollte eigentlich Milchstraße mit drauf. Allerdings waren die frisch eingelegten Batterien im StarTracker anderer Meinung und haben während der ersten Aufnahme gleich versagt. Bemerkt habe ich das natürlich erst nach knapp einer Stunde ;)
This spot has been on my list for a while, but somehow I always gave other places the preference. Maybe it is because of the rather strong light pollution there or maybe it is just too close to my home.
When a fellow flight captain and top notch photographer asked me if I would join him at this spot, the decision was an easy one.
A unique landscape, a rare celestial sight and excellent company are the perfect ingradients for a diverting and productive night.
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/4 - 50mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Stack of 10 x 20s @ ISO1600, tracked
Foreground:
Stack of 10 x 60s @ ISO3200
Three 20 second exposures combined.
At Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park
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The old Dolphins at Lepe in Hampshire with the milkyway rising over the Isle of Wight. Moon and Clouds producing much light pollution.
No this is not in Africa. I captured this in the Josuha Tree National Park. I spoke with a park ranger earlier in the day to get my permit for shooing at night and they told me that there had been several Mountain Lion sightings in the area I was planning to shoot. I have to say that did make me be a bit more aware.
The night sky here is wonderful with the exception of the Light pollution from Palm Springs Ca. in the distance. There was some air glow on this night, but I could not see it until post processing.
The Sky
MSM Tracker @ 90 sec ISO 800- 2.8
The Foreground
Single image @ 60 sec ISO 1250 - 2.8
Camera-Nikon D850
Lens - Nikon 14-24
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Happy New Year!
With the Milky Way, Santa Matrona chapel and the Korthion area.
Light pollution on the horizon, is coming from across the Aegean Sea.
This is a result of 4 portrait shots, stitched in Microsoft's ICE.
Clear skies insted of the usual fog. A breathtaking coast, dotted with sea stacks and two coves that perfectly align with the Milky Way arc above. The red hydrogen nebulae of the Winter Milky Way, joined by stunning red, green, and yellow airglow and Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) playing peek-a-boo over the trees on the very right.
In my world, it doesn't get much better.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
6 panel panorama, each a stack of 6x 60s @ ISO1600 & 3 x 150s @ ISO6400
Foreground:
6 panel panorama of 5s @ ISO400 during blue hour
I had a great weekend, sking my favorite slopes in the Swiss Alps, but with a full moon in the sky and a winter storm raging, there is no chance to do astrophotography. It is therefore the perfect time to stay in a cozy hut and eat some Swiss national food, like cheese fondue or raclette.
It is also a good time to post a reprocessed old favorite of mine. The panorama is from the Tschuggen Observatory in Arosa, Switzerland, where the storm has almost blown me off my skis this morning.
Reprocessing old data can be fun, because increased processing skills and different tastes can completely change an image. It this case, I am happy how much more details I was able to get out of the red nebulas in the winter sky.
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Here is the link to my original processing:
EXIF
- Astro modified Canon EOS 6d
- Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
- 9 images of 30s @ ISO 3200
The shelter at the mountain of Mainalo. View of our galaxy makes you going that hike even at -4°C. A beautiful night in the heart of the winter.
My plan on this night was to try to catch some Perseid meteors. We did see a few but didn't catch any on the camera. Just dozens of satellites and planes. Satellite pollution has become almost as bad as light pollution these days. So I decided to turn the images into star trails. Thanks for the view. Cheers!
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake
These stunning structures resemble the ruins of an ancient city, but the alien looking 'skyscrapers' are natural sand castles, rising 3-4 ft high.
Similar in appearance to the more famous calcium carbonate tufa towers along Mono Lake's shoreline, these sand tufas formed quite differently. Beneath the surface of the ancient lake, calcium-rich groundwater rose up through brine-saturated sand layers, forming cemented pillars of sand. Later, the lake waters receded, leaving this area high and dry some distance back from the water's edge. Then wind eroded away the sand layers, exposing fluted sand tufas. These delicate formations are being continually weathered completely away, and new ones are exposed.
The image shows the Milky Way arching over the Sand Tufas. Some dissipating clouds along the horizon are a reminiscence of less tranquil conditions with strong tunderstorms in the afternoon. Strong airglow is bathing the lower sky in green, yellow and some reds, which are seemingly echoed by the Hydrogen-alpha emission nebulae dotting the Milky Way band.
EXIF
Canon EOS R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 @ f/2
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
8 panel panorama, each a stack of 6x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered
Foreground:
9 panel panorama, each a focus stack of 5x 1s @ ISO100 during blue hour
Time for another Bisti shot...
I took this image during my visit in April. The night was perfectly clear, but very windy and a strong gust tipped over the tripod with my LED light and it dropped into the ravine behind the wing, I was glad that I was able to retrieve it in one piece.
EXIF
Astro-modified Canon EOS 6D
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8
Low Level Lighting with 2 LED panels and one omnidirectional light.
Fixed Tripod
10 x 20s @ ISO6400
Individually stacked with fitswork for the sky and PS for the foreground.
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"We all travel the Milky Way together,
trees and men."
** Somewhere in Sichuan, China. Trees lit by car headlights. Panorama.
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Under a beautiful new moon night, the three Santa Fe semaphores at ESS Colmor are standing tall, just as they've been doing for the past century, unbothered by change or progress. There truly was something magical about being in the desert at 02:00 AM, with the sole company of 100 years old semaphores, the stars and the ghosts of the former village of Colmor.
After the day's rain In Canyonlands National Park in Utah, Grand View Point's pocketed surface holds water that reflects the Milky Way stretching overhead where the night sky is also adorned by the brilliance of Jupiter. (Both Mars and Saturn, less brilliant, also share space with the Milky Way core.)
The view from Mount Matanna in Tuscany, Italy. While the sky was crystal clear, the sea and the cities below were covered by a thick fog...
Shot with Samyang 14mm f 2.8. Double exposure, I've tracked the sky with the Vixen Polarie 60 seconds at f5.6, ISO 400.
As I am packing for my June trip to the southwest US, it is time to post another image from last years visit.
This is Metate Arch in Grand Staircase-Escalante NM. The night was absolutely clear with some airglow. Together with the Milky Way core and the colorful Rho Ophichui, these were the perfect conditions to capture the beauty of the night sky.
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EXIF
- Canon EOS 6D, astro modified
- Samyang 24mm f1.4
- iOptron Skytracker
- Low Level Lighting
Foreground
3 x 50s @ ISO1600
Sky
3 x 50s @ ISO1600, tracked
The dominant composition of a meteor can play an important part in the observed colors of a fireball. This green streak is from the Perseids meteor shower in the summer of 2016, and after doing a little research it's likely that these meteors are primarily composed of Nickel which would explain the green coloration as they burn up traveling through our outer atmosphere. I called this Patriarchy because the tree you're looking at might be 4,000 years old, or even older. This tree might have been the father of many of the other trees in this area, and continues to stand against time in one of the most impossible environments. A place called the white mountains. The yellow glow you see here is a combination of forest fire smoke and light pollution.
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During my last layover in Los Angeles, I ventured out to a remote area of the Mojave High Desert and captured Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon).
Once the comet had set, I took advantage of the crystal-clear night to photograph this deepscape centered of the constellation Auriga - a region rich with fascinating nebulae and star clusters.
At the top of the frame, the brilliant Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) and Tadpole Nebula (IC 410) dominate the view. These are active star-forming regions embedded within a vast H-II cloud complex that also includes the Spider Nebula (IC 417) and several Sharpless catalog entries (Sh2-231 through Sh2-235).
In the lower part of the image lies the delicate Spaghetti Nebula (Simeis 147 / Sh2-240) - the faint remnant of a supernova that exploded approximately 40,000 years ago. Spanning about 200 light-years and covering 3° of sky (six times the diameter of the full Moon), it harbors a pulsar discovered at its center in 1994.
Also visible are three Messier open clusters - M36, M37, and M38 - all discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna.
Finally, in the upper right corner resides a small yet intriguing object with a complex identity: PK 173-05.1 / LBN 809. Discovered in 1962 by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek and originally classified as a planetary nebula, it was later reclassified as a reflection nebula, and subsequently also as irregular galaxy (PGC 16765) and an H-II region. Recent high-resolution observations by amateur astrophotographers - showing strong O-III emission - suggest that its original classification as a planetary nebula was probably correct, after all.
EXIF
Camera: Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by @EOS4astro
Lens: Samyang 135mm f/2.8
Filter: IDAS NBZ with Canon EF-EOS R drop-in adapter
Mount: Skywatcher Wave 150i
Autoguding: ZWO ASI 385MC with Artesky UltraGuide 32mm
Rig control: ZWO ASIAir Pro