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Today's image is brought to you by the letters "M" and "G".
"M" is for Meteor, at left of image, as well as Magellanic Clouds, with the Large MC near the centre and the Small MC at right.
"G" is for Galaxy, because each of the Magellanic Clouds is a galaxy. "G" is also for "Globular Cluster", as in 47 Tucanae, the globular cluster just to the right of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Singe frame, no telescope, shot with Canon EOS 6D, Canon 40mm @ f/2.8, 6 sec @ ISO 10000, mounted on iOptron SkyTracker.
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The Magellanic Clouds (small on the left, large on the right) loomed low in the sky above the wind turbines when I shot this a couple of weekends back. The moon was very low on the western horizon, lighting the fence and the foreground and towers before leaving the scene for another night. The moonlight also accounts for the bluish tint to the sky. Light pollution from Australia’s capital city, Canberra, highlighted the thin clouds that stole some of the clarity from the heavens.
Shot with Canon EOS 6D, Samyang 14mm @ f/2.8, 25sec @ ISO 6400.
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Closer-ups of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. Next to the Small Magellanic Cloud is the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, a ball of 10,000 stars about 13,000 light-years away from us. (JPOD 218) #photoaday #pictureaday #astrophotography #valledeelqui #rutadelasestrellas #vicuñachile #largemagellaniccloud #smallmagellaniccloud #47tucanae #magellanicclouds
Iâve posted photos of the Magellanic Clouds a few times over the past year or so. Every time I feature them in a post I get comments from northern hemisphere people about how beautiful they are and how much theyâd love to see them. Sometimes I get comments from southern hemisphere people along the lines of âso thatâs what those white blobs were!â
Wherever youâre from I hope that you find these two little companion galaxies of our Milky Way to be as alluring and fascinating as I do. Set in the sky here by the old, dead tree in the foreground I think they look extra lovely. In case youâre wondering how I lit up the tree, the answer is that I didnât. I waited until cars were approaching on the road behind me and let the overspill from their headlights do the work.
Shot with Canon EOS 6D, Samyang 14mm lens @ f/4.0, 25 sec @ ISO 6400.
Las Cañas, Uruguay. La plage de Las Cañas, le Rio Uruguay et les deux Nuages de Magellan
Las Cañas, Uruguay. The beach of Las Cañas, the Rio Uruguay and the two Magellanic clouds
The Large and Small Magellanic clouds, actually small companion galaxies of our Milky Way, photographed through the aurora australis from Invercargill in New Zealand
La Vía Láctea en una vista panorámica obtenida, durante la propagación de un láser de sodio que forma parte de un avanzado sistema que corrige la distrosión que sufre la luz de las estrellas al atravesar la atmósfera.
The three time lapse clips show the night sky from Namibia in southern Africa. The sun sets in the west and is followed by a broad and diffuse display of Zodiacal Light, i.e. interplanetary dust illuminated by the sun. The center of our milky way is rising in the opposite direction. The third view shows the apparent rotation of our sky around the south celestial pole. There is no bright pole star in the southern hemisphere. Can you spot the Magellanic Clouds? Our neighboring galaxies are hiding behind the trees.
Image data can be found at:
www.theskyinmotion.com/southernstars.html
Sound with kind permission of Kevin Kendle, Eventide Music Ltd
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Till Credner.
Comet Lemmon from earlier this year. Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tuc above it. But what causes the streaky background? Some 15 30 sec exposures stacked in DSS.
Small and Large Magellanic Clouds as photographed by Lake Tekapo, New Zealand - visible only in southern hemisphere;
Canon 30D, EF 24-105mm L;
25 sec exposure, ISO 1200
Tuross Head, Australia. October 2013.
I've been visiting Tuross since I was 11 (I'm now 50). It's got two lakes and several beaches and by night has wonderfully dark skies.
This is the first stitched panorama that I shot (Oct 2013) but it's taken me until now to be happy enough with it to post here. Centre of frame & just above tree line is Venus, also reflected on the lake. The Magellanic Clouds are waiting in the wings at top-left.
10000 x 3333 pixel, 240MB stitched panorama. 12 original frames (10x portrait, 2x landscape), stitched in AutoPanoPro Mac, edited in PhotoShop CC & Aperture. Denoised via Topaz Denoise 5.
Original RAW frames Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 10-20mm (10mm) @ f4.0, 25sec @ ISO 6400.
Not a valley on the Moon, but a valley where the sky was lit by the moon, and a place close to where moon-landing communications were made. Nine kilometres (5.5 mi) north-northwest of this spot are the remnants of the former NASA tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek. Honeysuckle has long since been decommissioned but in its time it served as the antenna that received the first pictures of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. The equipment and staff at Honeysuckle served through the Apollo programs and also the subsequent Skylab missions.
Ian Williams (www.facebook.com/ianmwillo) suggested that we stop here on our way back from shooting the dark skies further south of Canberra, ACT, Australia last Saturday night. Behind us was a shearing shed that was positioned well under Orion and the Pleiades and that we photographed by the light of Ian’s Lume Cube. I’ll post one of those shots another time. Our photographs over the previous few hours had been taken under very dark skies but as we pulled up here we could see the glow of the imminent moonrise behind the hills to the east. The moon’s light–which is actually reflected sunlight–changed the background sky to the blue colour you can see in the photo. The dense band of the Milky Way traces a line diagonally up from the lower-right to the upper-left of the scene while the Large Magellanic Cloud dominates the top-right of the image. Ian’s 4WD waits for us by the roadside, just a short walk and a risky clamber over a barbed-wire fence away.
This single image was taken with Canon EOS 6D, Samyang 14mm @ f/2.8, 30 sec @ ISO 6400.
Another night sky shot. The bright line near the cloud on the left hand side I've been told is an iridium flare, which occurs when a satellite reflects sunlight onto the earth. Less obvious but still visible are a shooting star and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
This is astrophotography. I like taking photos like this as it continues to inspire my interest in photography. The photo in this picture is set at the right exposure and the composition of the photo is mainly focused on the milky way. The white balance is set correctly which makes the picture look really realistic. This photo is most likely shot using the 500 or 600 rule which gives you the right time of exposure before the stars would start trailing.
To me, photos like these are examples of the best photos ever.
ENG: The moon is disappearing over the horizon, while both Magellanic clouds (at the low left) are rising along with the Milky Way, over the Gemini South telescope, in the heights of the Elqui Valley, in Vicuña, Chile.
ESP: La Vía láctea sobre Gemini Sur, mientras la Luna se oculta en el horizonte.
This is my first attempt at a star trail photo.
It was a 10 minute exposure looking south at Redgate Beach, near Margaret River.
It may be autumn but it felt like winter when I was out there.