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A Sky Spider
The brightest "small" area in the image is the Tarantula Nebula, about 160000 light years away. The white-ish area to the top right corner is its home, the LMC galaxy. And all this, captured with just an ordinary DSLR and ordinary telezoom lens on a small tracking mount :-).
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Una araña en el cielo
La "pequeña" área más brillante de la imagen es la nebulosa de la Tarántula, a unos 160000 años luz de distancia. El área blancuzca hacia la parte superior derecha es su hogar, la Gran Nube de Magallanes que es otra galaxia. Y todo esto, capturado sólo con una cámara digital y un lente teleobjetivo ordinarios en una montura de seguimiento pequeña.
The southern Milky Way over a Ballandean vineyard. Also visible are the Carina Nebula (the red smudge in the lower part of the Milky Way), and the Large Magellanic Cloud at upper right.
Carmelo, Uruguay. La Voix Lactée et les deux Nuages de Magellan dominent un cactus. Une étoile filante traverse la scène
Carmelo, Uruguay. The Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds overlooking a cactus. A shooting star passes across the scenery.
The Greater and Lesser Magellanic Clouds are prominent in lower latitude southern hemisphere skies at present.
Uncropped image taken at f4. Some coma evident top left corner. Testing legacy glass on Pentax K1.
Nube Mayor de Magallanes desde las sierras mas antiguas del mundo (sistema de Tandilia), Azul, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Large Magellanic Cloud from the world's oldest mountains (Tandilia system), Azul, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Possibly the Aurora Australis, or it could be airglow. The aurora index was in between Kp6 and Kp7 at the time.
Looking due south from 13th Beach just outside Barwon Heads. The glow in the bottom right is Torquay.
The two Magellanic Clouds and our own Milky Way galaxy dominate this image looking south from the boat ramp at Tuross Lake, NSW, Australia. The panorama was stitched from 12 original images, shot in October, 2013.
Although it's taken me until now to post it, this was the second nightscape pano that I ever shot, with no pano head and very little concept of how to shoot a pano.
A laser propagation from the Gemini South telescope at the top of Cerro Pachon, Chile. Venus -the big bright dot at the right-, is almost setting down the horizon along with a small shiny Mercury, at its left.
A section of our milky way galaxy stands upright with the large and small Magellanic Clouds (irregular dwarf galaxies) off to the right. The red and green glows are probably faint aurora and were not visible to the eye.
Just trying out some new software. This is a 30 sec exposure at 3200 ISO of the Southern Hemisphere sky taken 2 years ago. The Southern Cross lies on its side above the trees far left, the fuzzy top right centre is the Larger Magellanic Cloud. The Lesser Magellanic Cloud lies on the treeline at the right. These are sateliite galaxies to our own Milky Way. There is still some light pollution to remove and the sky is still a bit blotchy, but I am pleased with my effort. The original was a PEF file and is extremely noisey.
Gum trees, or eucalypts, are Australia’s best-known native trees and are found right across the country. A folk song written in 1974 and popularised in the 80s, “Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees” is one of my nation’s unofficial national anthems and has been covered by many artists, including André Rieu! Originally written as a satirical entry in a national anthem competition the modified lyrics paint an idealised picture of rural Australian life.
The trees in the foreground of the photo are one of the 700 varieties of gum tree and I thought them a fitting frame for this very Australian image of a gate to a cattle trail, the fading purple of the Aurora Australis on the horizon and the Magellanic Clouds–satellite galaxies of our Milky Way– as they brighten the night sky.
I used an LED light bank with a yellow filter to light the foreground. Shot with Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.4, 15 sec @ ISO 6400. Captains Flat, Australia. 01/01/17.
The Milky Way night sky filled with stars over the rural countryside in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
A time-lapse video from Cerro Tololo (at CTIO), showing the movement of the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way, and how the sky changes with the presence of the Moon.
Technical details: GoPro 4 silver, night lapse at 30s exposure, starting on Aug 12 2017 23:14:28, ending on Aug 13 02:01:54 (Chilean time), Protune enabled (white balance = native, color = flat, iso limit = 800, sharpness = low), video @25fps, edited with Blender
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.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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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.
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.
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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.