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Although we had an extremly clear autumn sky that night, I did not really expect to see the milkyway on one of my photos.
In fact, that was my second try to capture stars. As the untouched photo was way to dark, lightening up caused a lot of grain, which I wasn't able to remove. Lots of potential for improvements, I know... :o)
This is a little rough and i don't really like the composition but kind of cool anyway. Well it could be better. Milky Way will be rising like this again tonight with the moon down but i wont be able to make it. Bummer. Rokinon 85mm at f1.4. 3 shots and cropped quite a bit.
“The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight”
― Isaac Asimov, “The Stars, Like Dust“
Stars in the night sky after sunset, before moonrise. This dark sky with myriad stars was my whole objective for visiting Mauna Kea. Handheld long single autoexposure braced against a car. Did not expect to get such a good photo.
Zoom way in and notice the faint stars in between the bright ones. Remember that the deep survey photos you’ve seen from Hubble have vast numbers of galaxies in each very tight field of view that includes only one or two stars, as faint as the faintest of these.
Do not feel small. You are part of the interconnected web of all existence.
“We are the Universe,
Becoming aware of itself”
—Carl Sagan
Taken few moments before full moon rise on horizon. Unfortunately we need to go further to have a clean dark sky without so many light pollution. The good side of this is to discover beautiful small villages and beaches.
This is a composition from 10 exposures to reduce noise from my old friend D5000 with Tokina 11-16mm 2.8.
Mix of lighting while along the rim of the north side of the Grand Canyon. The warm light is from the lodge shining down ... and the white light is from my flashlight. Played around with some light painting ... this was the first attempt here where shining it on the tree there for a few seconds directly. After this played around more with comps and light painting where I added the light indirectly.
Liked this comp as it also showed that lone light from a camp down at the bottom of the Grand Canyon ... there all alone in the dark.
... and HFF, there is a fence there at the edge of the outcrop of rock to keep you from falling down into the canyon if you venture out to the overlook. Where I was standing here at the rim ... only air holding you back ;)
Taken through an 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope with an unmodded Canon 1100D + focal reducer, on an EQ5 Pro tracking mount, no guiding. Shot alongside the 97% illuminated Moon
Main nebula:
36 x ISO-1600 for 30 seconds
20 Darks
Core:
8 x ISO-1600 for 10 seconds
5 darks
Stacked separately in Deep Sky Stacker, processed using Photoshop CS2 with RC Astrotools plug in. Then the 2 images were merged using a layer mask. Final tweaks made in Fast Stone Image Viewer
25x10sec (composited in sequator - Align Stars), f1.8 ISO 1600.
In photos like these with clear sky (feat. 41mpx sensor) you can easily notice the downsides of your lens.
I could have cropped the corners but I'll leave it as it is, just for the reference.
Things like blurry stars in corners you can't fix. They do get less light than the center of a sensor, so maybe that's the reason for them being blurry in corners.
All in all, I'm thrilled with this result, that I've been taking while enjoying the beautiful seashore wind in Krapanj.
This title of Asimov's SF novel comes to my mind when I see the Milky Way.
It is a part of the Milky Way but not the center.
for Macro Mondays, Patterns in Nature. Beetle smaller than my little finger nail. And there's a much small er one on the flower he's heading for.
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A firmament of brightly colored sugar stars for the Smile on Saturday group, challenge: bright on black.
Happy Saturday!
I had been getting a few early starts, just to try and catch what was then my home town of Stawell in a blanket of fog, but with the streetlights still partly visible in little pools of fog shrouded brightness. After five early and freezing cold mornings, this was the closest I came to what I had intended. Never quite got the full blanket of coloured light, but happy to get this. What surprised me most was the visibility of the stars over a brightly lit town. I had thought the streetlights would have created too much light pollution, but there they are!
In clear daylight, the Grampians Ranges extend across the far horizon.
Best viewed large for starry detail!
Shot in the wee hours of the morning in Arches NP. I had to drive my own Highlander to create the light trails. Yeah, there aren't a lot of people driving that road at 3:00 am.
A single , lightpainted cross beneath a starfilled sky. The man who fell to earth is returning home. We are all made of stars. RIP David Bowie.
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what? Edward Abbey
One of the desert jewels in the southern Utah desert. This little arch is located in an entrada sandstone formation north of Moab, Utah. On this night my friend JK Schow and I set up to retake shots on this arch. JK rented some fisheye lenses that worked a lot better this time, for shots taken inside the arch. We then climbed on top of the arch to get this composition.
When Edward Abbey wrote the above quote I believe he was speaking of the desert in general. With the cloaking of darkness and the added beauty of the night sky does it or does it not add to the mystery?
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Meols shore, Wirral
The tide out at Meols sure
Don't try this at home, I know this picture looks bright almost daylight but staff photography needs no moon, which means it is completely black, powerful torches do work but they don't tell you the how deep the water is, just a warning,,,,,
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