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Australia’s indigenous peoples are very well regarded for their astronomical history and knowledge and for how they integrated that knowledge into their culture, hunting, navigation and lore. The “Galactic Emu” is probably the best-known of the night sky features used by our aborigines. Follow a New Zealand nightscape photographer on Instagram, Facebook or on the wider web and you’ll see mention of the “Galactic Kiwi”, an asterism that honestly does look like a giant Kiwi bird in the sky reminding Australians that our smaller neighbour is there looking over us for a large part of the year.
I’m adding a new heavenly bird to the flock today with my post of the Galactic Owl’s Eyes. It’s only been a few days since I posted my “Eye of God” photo to Instagram and Facebook, I know, but after posting this new two-eyed version to some Facebook groups I saw how well it was received so am posting here for you. As I noted in the original “Eye of God” post this is a stitched image made up from 150 single photos. To create it I set my camera on a Nodal Ninja panoramic mount and took 360 degrees’ worth of photos then tilted the mount up some and took another full circle of shots. This was repeated until I had covered the whole sky.
The stitching software that I use has many options for creating a panorama and the “Little Planet” projection is one that I’ve very rarely used. The black circle in the centre, resulting from not taking photos below the horizon line, looked so much like the pupil of an eye that I decided to take the plunge and post the original one-eyed version. Duplicating that original image as a layer in Photoshop then flipping the new one horizontally took very little time and produced the two-eyed version.
Each image was captured with a Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.4, 15 sec @ ISO 6400.
Southern Cross、Magellanic Cloud, Milky Way, Eta Carina Nebula in Bryndwr、NZ.
クライストチャーチはブラインドワのレントハウスから撮影しました。
南半球で人気の星野写真のターゲットがほとんどカバーできたアングルです。
つまりサザン・オールスターズ・・・
A 360° fish-eye panorama of the southern hemisphere autumn sky, on March 31, 2017, taken from Cape Conran on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria, Australia at a latitude of 37° South. ..Orion and Sirius are at top, oriented as we are used to seeing them in the northern sky in our winter season. Below Sirius is Canopus, and below it are the two Magellanic Clouds, Large and Small (LMC and SMC). At bottom along the southern Milky Way are the stars of Carina, Crux, and Centaurus, and the dark lanes of the Milky Way creating the “Dark Emu” rising out of the ocean. At far left is Jupiter. ..Some faint red airglow tints the sky. ..This is at stitch of 7 segments, each shot with the 14mm Rokinon lens, in portrait orientation, at f/2.5 for 45 seconds each, at ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui with spherical fish-eye projection. ....
The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies that are travelling through space with it (well, with us, in fact). These are known as “satellite galaxies” or “companion galaxies” and of the approximately sixty that have been detected only two are visible with the unaided eye. Named the “Magellanic Clouds” (for Ferdinand Magellan, on whose round-the-world voyage they were cataloged) you can see them at the left of this image, looking like two hazy blobs in the sky. I always find it a bit of a buzz to capture the Magellanic Clouds in the same image as their much bigger brother and hope that you get the same buzz seeing the three galaxies together in a photo like this.
Unless you’re shooting with a very wide-angle lens you can’t get all three galaxies into the one shot but you can use the process of “stitching” to finish up with such a wide photo. For this image I shot thirteen overlapping images and then used software to blend them (via stitching) into this single scene.
Each of the photos that make up today’s image were shot with Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.4, 13 sec @ ISO 6400.
This is just a few kilometres from the Chilean border and here the sleeping and lodging options are almost non-existent, and being so remote and in a desert you’d never expect to find it either, except that there is one decent option here called Tayka del Desierto.
This high-altitude service is where I gazed in awe at this incredibly clear sky. The stars seemed closer than I’ve ever seen them, and with the lodge’s few lights being the only man-made light sources the light pollution was non-existent.
It’s well below freezing at night at this altitude, and staying outside is like a cold and windy Scandinavian winter! Fortunately I could stay warm in my room, waiting for the camera to do its work.
The 2 blobs or smears close to the center are the Small and the Great Magellanic Clouds, two satellite galaxies to the Milky Way – not visible to the dwellers on the northern hemisphere. Thus, the centre of the circle seen in this photo is the southern celestial pole.
I've deliberately set the white balance to how our eyes perceive the stars - almost no colors.
Altitude: 4528 metres.
A conspicuous group: The Milky Way, and both Magellanic Clouds (Large & Small, LMC & SMC respectively). Near the bottom right corner, a menacing cloud. It was gone a few minutes later.
Las cosas obvias en la imagen son 3 galaxias: La Vía Láctea y las 2 Nubes de Magallanes (La Gran Nube LMC y la Pequeña Nube SMC).
Cerca de la esquina inferior derecha, una nube amenazaba con arruinar la observación. Después de unos minutos desapareció.
Photographing the Milky Way as seen near Rockleigh, South Australia. With a satellite flying through the sky, and the light pollution from near by Murray Bridge, I think this shot highlights how much the light humans produce now obstructs the stunning view of light that has travelled for thousands or millions of years to get here. For this reason, I haven't tried to remove the light pollution in this instance.
Olympus OM-D E-M1
7-14mm f2.8
7mm, f2.8, 25 seconds, ISO 3200
Processed in Lightroom, roughly following the approach set out in Ian Norman's 'How to Process Milky Way Astrophotography in Adobe Lightroom' tutorial from Lonely Speck.
DARK SKY PROJECT Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Dark Sky Project time-lapse animations, please refer to Dark Sky Project on You Tube.
Looking at this photo and seeing the three dead trees standing amongst the many living ones, I started pondering the social guideline that says to “not speak ill of the dead”. If trees could have thoughts and feelings, how would the living regard the dead ones? Would they look at them shyly, too embarrassed to be seen gazing at the revered remains of their ancestors? Instead, perhaps the younger and cocksure trees would sneer at them for not having been able to “go the distance”; for giving up the fight.
Fanciful thoughts, for sure, but consider all the more the fact that a number of the stars you see in this photo could have been dead for many years, even for centuries. The starlight that our eyes detect is what has reached us at the instant we are looking, after having travelled through space for varying distances over proportional lengths of time. If a star is four light-years away, then we’re seeing the light as it was four years ago when it left that star. If a hundred light-years distant, then our view is of one hundred year-old light. A simple look at the numbers says that at least some of the stars in this photo are dead now, despite looking alive and alight to us. As with the trees, there are many dead stars amongst the living.
A single frame, shot with Canon EOS 6D, Samyang 14mm @ f/2.8, 30 sec @ ISO 6400.
Lower left, thousands of cars attempt to simultaneously leave Burning Man 2010 on Sunday night after the temple burn. I was digging the light and the dust they were kicking up heading back out the entrance road. I happened to catch the Milky Way high in the sky over the vast Black Rock Desert.
Quite a frustrating night trying to get photos of this episode of geomagnetic activity, first because it was fading fast as we approached local midnight, but mostly because humidity in the air was really high (borderline light fog) and made it really tough. So yeah no great shot to offer here, only a "dirty" one which I had to edit quite hard in order to show the aurora … :-/
Taken from Olifant Rest Camp, Kruger Nat. Park SA.
13"*21 --> 4,5 mins
No tracking, no difiltred camera
A 360° rectangular panorama of the southern hemisphere autumn sky, on March 31, 2017, taken from Cape Conran on the Gippsland Coast of Victoria, Australia at a latitude of 37° South. The Milky Way through Puppis and Vela was overhead at this time and so is spread out along the top of the frame using this map projection. The Milky Way at left is rising; the Milky Way at right is setting. The South Celestial Pole is left of centre near the satellite trail...Orion and Sirius are at right. Left of Sirius at centre is Canopus, and below it are the two Magellanic Clouds, Large and Small (LMC and SMC). At left along the southern Milky Way are the stars of Carina, Crux, and Centaurus, and the dark lanes of the Milky Way creating the “Dark Emu” rising out of the ocean. At far left is Jupiter. ..Some faint red airglow tints the sky. ..This is at stitch of 7 segments, each shot with the 14mm Rokinon lens, in portrait orientation, at f/2.5 for 45 seconds each, at ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui with equirectangular projection.
While humidity kept rising up to light fog levels, I took a few more shots to see what the auroras were doing, and spotted these "green puffs". A friend was shooting a time-lapse at the same time, and you could see these features moving from left to right rapidly, staying at about the same height in the sky. It's the first time I spot such things at Christchurch's latitude, not sure what they are about !
Stack of two 20-second exposures.
Early in January I posted a photo similar to this, showing the International Space Station (ISS) passing over the Namadgi National Park south of Canberra, Australia. That image was one of the four shots I used to make up this composite. Even though the ISS is orbiting our Earth at a speed of 27,600 kilometres per hour (17,150 miles per hour), it still takes a surprisingly long time to cross the sky from horizon to horizon. On this orbit over my part of the planet the ISS wasn’t visible all the way across the sky but it was still in view for over four minutes. This meant I had to take a number of shots to capture more than just a small part of the station’s path across the sky and that’s what I’ve shown here, composited into one image. The lovely glow of the two Magellanic Clouds at the top of the scene is a constant sight in a dark Australian night sky.
This single images that make up this composite image were shot with Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.4, 15 second exposure @ ISO 6400.
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the Magellanic Clouds set on a grayscale background.
Original caption: Each of the thousands of spots in this new image represents a distant star, and the glittering blue holes reveal glimpses of our neighbouring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Although this image looks as if it was made on a large scale telescope it was in fact captured from ESO’s La Silla Observatory using a portable setup consisting of a SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera and a Canon prime lens. It was presented in a scientific paper alongside state-of-the art simulations, in an exciting example of how a small camera, a fast lens, a long exposure time and one of the world’s best astronomical sites can reveal huge faint features better than even a big telescope. This deep image was captured using the LRGB method, and provides an insight into the actual process of creating spectacular astrophotography. Many challenges face those attempting to photograph the night sky, including interference from light sources other than the object being photographed, and capturing objects in sufficient depth. Trying to maximise the signal received from the target, whilst minimising input from other sources — known as noise — is a crucial aspect of astrophotography. The optimisation of the signal to noise ratio is far more easily achieved in black-and-white than in colour. Therefore a clever trick often employed to capture a high-quality image is the use of a luminance exposure, which produces richly detailed monochrome images like the one seen here. Colour details from images taken through colour filters can then be overlaid or inset, as the Magellanic Clouds have been here. Link: Science Paper
Dead trees are favourite objects of mine for featuring in any kind of landscape photography. Nightscape shots seem to lend themselves to using these beautiful relics as foreground pieces to frame the stars, constellations, planets and galaxies to try to link the earthly and ephemeral to the almost endless sky. Like most other trees in this location–the Namadgi National Park, in the Australian Capital Territory–these once-living timbers are Australian eucalypts, or “gum trees”. The taller limbs are doing a wonderful job of framing up the Magellanic Cloud galaxies here.
While I was creating this shot Ian Williams was bit further off, setting up for a shot or two of his own. You can see the light from Ian’s Lume Cube, and Ian himself, at the bottom of this scene, about a quarter of the way in from the right. I had to drive back home to Sydney the next day, so Ian and I didn’t get a chance to compare shots from the night. You get an acting credit and a lighting credit for this one of mine, Ian!
A single shot captured with Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, Rokinon 24mm lens @ f/2.4 aperture, 15 sec exposure @ ISO 6400.
The subdued colours of Aurora Australis show themselves in a rare event for us above 35° south.
Taken at Sleaford Mere, Eyre Peninsula.
south Australia.
The Milky Way night sky filled with stars over the rural countryside in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
I grew up watching what was probably too much American and British TV for a boy from the southern hemisphere. It left me thinking that all of the really cool things that happened in the world were those in the northern hemisphere. Well, when it comes to wonderful sights in the night skies that couldn’t be any more wrong. Have a look here at what we get to see in Australia (as well as folk in South Africa, South American countries, New Zealand, et al). The Magellanic Clouds are just two reasons our night skies are better. Oh, and although it’s out of shot here the Milky Way’s galactic core spends much more time in the southern night skies than the northern ones. You should come down and see for yourself some time! Mars, Saturn and the supergiant star Antares are featured over on the right of this image, just to balance out the glory of the Magellanic Clouds on the left.
A stitched image created from 16 original frames, each shot with my Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.8, 15 sec @ ISO 6400.
These 'clouds'are actually dwarf galaxies outside our own milky way.Clearly visible to the naked eye from a campsite in NZ.
Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 12mm
Optimize Image: Vivid
Color Mode: aRGB
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: On (Low)
2015/01/22 01:07:44.9
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Tone Comp.: None
RAW (14-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: Manual
Latitude: S 33°37.01'(33°37'0.5")
15 sec - F/4
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Longitude: W 69°58.16'(69°58'9.8")
Azimuth: 195º (SSW)
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sharpening: Normal
Altitude: 2697.00 m
Lens: 12-24mm F/4G Tokina
Sensitivity: ISO 6400
Image Comment: (c) Gerard Prins (+56) 22758 7209
Irregular dwarf galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way, the magellanic clouds are visible in the Southern Hemisphere. This photo is taken with a Sony Alpha dSLR with 50mm f/1.7 lens on a fixed tripod. You can make out the Large Magellanic Cloud in the middle of the photo, particularly in the larger sizes. Read more on wikipedia
Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud, 10 Exposures, 8mm M.Zuiko PRO f1.8 Fish Eye at f1.8, ISO 6400, 20 seconds, with 1x Dark Frame, Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, with post completed in Lightroom.
So said Gimli, in the movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”, upon seeing a flock of approaching Crebain (large crow-like birds) that had been sent to spy on their party as they trekked through Middle Earth. Many people, including me, have thought or said something similar when first seeing one or both of the Magellanic Clouds in the skies of the (predominately) Southern Hemisphere. That’s how they got their names: they look like clouds.
Some historians see references to the clouds in ancient writings of several cultures. They were known to many Polynesian peoples and the Māori of New Zealand thought them to be predictors of winds. “In Sri Lanka, from ancient times, these clouds have been referred to as the Maha Mera Paruwathaya meaning "the great mountain", as they look like the peaks of a distant mountain range.” (Wikipedia).
The oldest written record of the two wafts of nocturnal light seems to be from the writings of the Muslim polymath Ibn Qutaybah, some time in the 7th century AD. After this, there are records of the Magellanic Clouds by observers from many European countries including Italy and Portugal. The most notable was by Antonia Pigafetta, who sailed with Ferdinand Magellan on his world-circumnavigational voyage from 1519-1522. Of all of these chroniclers of the Clouds, it was Magellan whose name is now attached to the two dwarf galaxies that are travelling through space with our Milky Way.
Here I’ve brought you an image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, suspended in the sky near Nowra, on the south-east coast of New South Wales, Australia. The photo is a section of a larger vertical panorama, created from three photos that were each captured with Canon EOS 6D, Canon 50mm @ f/2.8, 8 sec @ ISO 12800.
Milky Way Arch - Case de Adobe Hotel, Purmamarca Jujuy, Argentina
Multi-row panorama photo: 3 rows x 8 portrait photos = 24 photos, stitched together using Microsoft ICE.
Taken on 9th July 2019 at 3:42 local time, Nikon D810, Samyang 24mm f/1.4 @ f/2, 15 sec., ISO 2500, K4000, Panosaurus 2.0
Ayers Rock, Northern Territory
First time in my life I've seen the Magellanic Clouds. Unforgetable! :)
Nubes de Magallanes desde las sierras mas antiguas del mundo (sistema de Tandilia), Azul, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
La estrella brillante a la derecha de la nube mayor es Canopus.
Magellanic Clouds from the world's oldest mountains (Tandilia system), Azul, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
The bright star, to the right of the large cloud is Canopus
Laser propagation at the Gemini South Observatory, on the southern hemisphere night sky. Both Magellanic clouds are visible.
The milky way rising above a quiver tree, with the Magellanic Clouds also visible overhead. The quiver tree is a species of aloe found in Southern Africa, and got its name from the San people who hollowed out the branches to be used as quivers to hold arrows. Fish River Canyon, Namibia.
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Praia de Bora Bora
São Sebastião/SP
2019\02\09
Câmera Sony NEX-3N
Lente Sigma 19mm f/2.8 DN Art
Mini montagem EQ Vixen Polarie
Mini tripé Manfrotto MT293A4
30s f/2.8 ISO1600
Lightroom (Android)
(Frame único)
Dark Sky Project | Photo taken by Huili Chai - Location: Mount John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
The Large (l) and Small (r) Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way's largest companion galaxies, rise above Mt. Kilimanjaro as seen from the Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
Mirando hacia el sur del Valle de Colina, arriba en el Cajón de Maipo, se vislumbra estrellado el Cerro Puntiagudo bajo el cosmos interminable. Justamente, éste muestra dos pequeñas nebulosas: las Nubes Mayor (al centro) y Menor de Magallanes (área superior derecha), ambas galaxias satélites de la Vía Láctea en el grupo local.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are irregular galaxies in the the Milky Way's neighbourhood. Only visible in the Southern Hemisphere, seeing them and TUC 47 (the 2nd largest globular cluster, 16,700 light years away and 120 light years across, containing 1000s of stars). TUC 47 is just above the SMC.
What a fantastic sky in the Outback.