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Nikon d5100
50mm
139 x 8 seconds
f/1.8
ISO 3200
Stitched in MS ICE
This is a 139 image panorama covering over 200 degrees of the night sky above Lake Clifton in Western Australia. Shot at 50mm, you can clearly see the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds on the left side of the panorama at about SSE with the core setting towards the west in the middle and the light pollution from the nearby city of Mandurah prominent on the right side at around NNE.
Lake Clifton is well known for being one of the last remaining locations on the planet to host thrombolites, the oldest lifeforms on Earth. In late summer, early winter, they are visible above the surface but this was taken in early spring so the water level was too high to see them.
50mm
f1.8
ISO 5000
103 x 6 seconds
Stitched in PTGui
This is another 50mm panorama taken at Serpentine Dam, not far from the outskirts of the Perth metropolitan area so I had to deal with quite a bit of light pollution, as you can see.
The Magellanic Clouds can be seen above the dam tower.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 6 x 13 seconds
Sky: 25 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 31 shot panorama of the Crux and Carina region of the Milky Way above Cowcowing Lakes, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image is the Carina Nebula just below the large, deep red Gum Nebula. To the right is the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The foreground was light painted using a dedicated astro torch, held low to accentuate the surface texture.
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 4000
f/2.5
Foreground: 9 x 15 seconds
Sky: 30 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 39 shot panorama of the Carina Nebula & Magellanic Clouds over a wheat farm near Northam, about 90 minutes east of Perth in Western Australia.
I only ever use myself in my images as a last resort and on this occasion, rather than just have a boring empty field I threw myself in there.
I haven't been getting a lot of airglow in my shots the last few months but it was pretty vibrant this particular night with the orange glow from sodium at about 50-60km altitude and the green glow from atomic oxygen at about 90-100km.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The country night sky with magellanic cloud, diffuse aurora glow and meteors visible from Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Wellington, New Zealand (ウェリントン, ニュージーランド)
Doll × Tilt-Shift photography. 25-frame milky way panorama portrait photo by Nikon D810 and PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f/3.5D ED lens.
A new journey here. Love with Ogata Rina from NZ.
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The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5100
12 x 25 seconds
ISO 5000
f2.8
11mm
This is the old control station at Canning Dam, the building is about 76 years old and sits in the middle of the dam wall.
This panorama consists of 12 landscape orientated photos, stitched in MS ICE. The light pollution is from the Perth metropolitan area about 10km away while the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are just to the left of the light pollution.
Cape Saunders, Dunedin, New Zealand.
"You are my everlasting song. Come fly with me."
Three galaxies in the sky, one Goddess beside the sea. And a wing of stars on her back.
My new starry sky portrait photo taken by Nikon D810 and Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/15 ZF.2 lens with additional Light-Painting in Lightroom for model and foreground details. I am trying a kind of Computer Graphics texture, I hope you might like it...
Model information: Ogata Rina www.volks.co.jp/en/whitealbum/products.html/
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Explored Mar 9, 2015
Indonesia's Mount Bromo under the stars. I'm sure you've seen lots of Milky Way images, but probably not too many night sky images with magellanic clouds. This was shot during astronomical twilight while an inversion cloud was hanging over the lahar plain. You can see lights from cars under the clouds, as well the head lamps of people climbing up Bromo itself as well as Mount Semeru in the rear. The two nebulae in the sky are magellanic clouds - basically light from another galaxy reaching into ours. They can only be seen in the southern hemisphere (below the equator). The bright star just to the right of the small magellanic cloud is actually not a star, but light from a globular cluster of about a million stars called 47 Tecunae.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 15 x 15 seconds
Sky: 42 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 57 shot panorama of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds above a wheat farm on the right and canola field on the left, intersected by a lone tree.
The light pollution, acting as a back light for the tree, is from the nearby town of Northam, the largest in the Wheatbelt region, about 1.5 hours east of Perth.
Under the night sky at Poppethead Reserve in Kitchener, near Cessnock, in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 40 x 6 seconds
Sky: 82 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 122 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over Lake Clifton and its thrombolites, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia. Thrombolites are formed by calcium carbonate excretions from colonies of bacteria and are among the oldest lifeforms on earth. These particular ones though are 'only' a couple of thousand years old.
Also prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds just above the light pollution in the centre of the image and above the LMC is the pink coloured Carina Nebula, another staple of Southern Hemisphere night skies.
The moist air played havoc with my lens, fogging it up
every 15 minutes so some of the stars appear bloated because of this.
Nikon d5100
11 x 25 seconds
f2.8
ISO 5000
11mm
Stitched in MS ICE
11 shot panorama taken on the dam wall of Canning Reservoir in Western Australia. The dam was built in 1940 and is still a major source of fresh water for the city.
Mars can be seen shining brightly in the top left corner, just a week after opposition. The light pollution on the right is from the Perth suburb of Armadale, just 10km away.
For me, it's a different night sky and in spite of heavy wind I tried to capture the Magellan Clouds during my trip in South Africa. The big one is known very well, but the small cloud object was the target of this astro photography.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 15 x 25 seconds
Sky: 41 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 56 shot panorama of the Milky Way above Nambung Desert, about 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
This is about 15 minutes south of The Pinnacles and is a roughly 4 square km area of pure white sand dunes adjacent to the main coastal road, so only a short walk from the roadside to the dunes.
Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds just above the horizon and right of centre, just above the LMC is the pink Carina Nebula and to the left of that is the dark Coalsack Nebula with Crux to its immediate right. And of course that's me standing and admiring the entire scene :)
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 4000
f/2.5
Foreground: 19 x 30 seconds
Sky: 135 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 154 shot panorama of the Milky Way and Orion above Lake Clifton's thrombolites, one of the most ancient forms of life on earth, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
I had this shot in mind for quite some time. I wanted to capture both Orion and the core's Sagittarius region in the one panorama, normally pretty much impossible as when the core rises, Orion is setting. The only time they are in the sky together at the same time is when both regions are very close to the horizon and, as such, badly affected by the Earth's atmosphere scattering their light.
The idea was to shoot them both at least 20 degrees above the horizon but they are never at this altitude together. So my thought was to capture the panorama starting from the west where Orion is setting and at 20 degrees, but instead of shooting a standard horizontal panning style panorama I was going to shoot a vertical tilt style panorama ie shooting column by column rather than row by row (if that makes sense). I wasn't even sure that the stitching software would process it. The whole thing took two hours to shoot so by the time I got to the core in the east it had risen to 20 degrees. The next day I not-very-confidently ran the images through MSICE and was surprised to see it stitch the images without much issue. Phew!
Aside from Orion on the right side of the image, other prominent features are the Magellanic Clouds in the centre and the Carina Nebula, the pink coloured splotch, at the top of the arc while some quite strong red and green airglow adds some nice colour to the image. The tripod you can see on the jetty/boardwalk is my older d5100 camera, automatically taking the shots that made up the star trails image I posted a week ago.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 23 x 30 seconds
Sky: 52 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 75 shot panorama of the Milky Way above The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image is the Gum Nebula just above the pointed pinnacle on the right. Just above that is the pink coloured Carina Nebula with the Magallanic Clouds to the right of the light pollution.
The Pinnacles are known for their limestone rock formations which rise out of the desert sand and resemble an alien landscape.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d810a
85mm
ISO 5000
f/2.8
Foreground: 28 x 10 seconds
Sky: 92 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Starscape filter
This is a 120 shot panorama of the Milky Way above North Dandalup Dam, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
As you might have guessed from the title, this is the second image I have taken from this exact spot. The first can be seen here which was taken back in 2017 when I had yet to use a tracker and before I had upgraded to a full frame, astro modded camera. You can see the difference both pieces of equipment make with more prominent airglow and h-alpha regions. You can also see an increase in light pollution, probably a result of the ever expanding human presence as well as the increased light capturing abilities of the tracker and camera.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 4000
f/2.5
Foreground: 13 x 25 seconds
Sky: 29 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 42 shot panorama of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds above The Pinnacles Desert, about 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
I usually light paint foregrounds but decided to go for a more natural look with the shots I took this night. The Magellanic Clouds can be see clearly to the left, hovering above the light pollution. To the right you can see the North America Nebula and some red airglow above the horizon.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/3.2
Foreground: 9 x 10 seconds
Sky: 26 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 35 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way above Little Lake Norring near Wagin, 2.5 hour south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Cruz is just above centre, further up and to the right is the pink coloured Carina Nebula. The large, deep red nebula in the top right is the Gum Nebula. Below this on the right are the Magellanic Clouds.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 5000
f/2.8
Foreground: 13 x 30 seconds
Sky: 52 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 65 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way as it arches over The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
This is the first full panorama I have tried using a full frame camera, previously I had been using a crop sensor camera. What would have normally taken 100+ shots with my old camera took just 65 with the d810a. It took less than an hour to shoot this, cutting at least a third off the time it used to take me. So a nice added benefit along with, of course, the astrophotography specific features of this camera, including the enhanced h-alpha sensitivity, seen here in all of the prominent red regions of the sky.
Also seen in this image are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds on the far right, Crux & Carina just below them, the famous Orion Nebula top left of centre and the blue Pleiades cluster to the far left.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.5
Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds
Sky: 35 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 42 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way above a lone tree on a wheat farm near York, 1.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image is the pink coloured Carina Nebula in the centre. Above that is the large, deep red Gum Nebula and to the right are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies to our own Milky Way.
Nikon d5100
35mm
ISO 3200
f2.0
58 x 13 seconds
This one comes in at just under 150MP. Strangely it outputted at a much heftier 500MP when using Microsoft ICE but I preferred the result that PTGui gave me. I really like the amount of detail I get from these 35mm panoramas, despite how much more work is involved in both shooting them and then stitching it all together.
This panorama stretches approximately 200 degrees from east to west. The light pollution behind the lighthouse is from my home city of Perth, directly south of Guilderton. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are clearly visible just above the light pollution to the right of the lighthouse.
**Update**
This photo has been featured in Youreeka's Youtube video 'Southern Night Sky Astronomy Highlights'
Part of the Milky Way rises vertically above the coastal dunes at Cuttagee, NSW Far South Coast. To the right lie the Larger and Smaller Magellanic Clouds. The South Celestial Pole sits between the three, a bit more than half way up the frame, above the green clump of dune grass, although there's nothing to mark it - just sayin' :-)
IRIX 15mm f2.4 Blackstone
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier Filter
97 x 8 seconds
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Stitched in MS ICE
This is a 97 image panorama shot at Herron Point, approximately 75km (50mi) south of Perth in Western Australia. Herron Point is a small camping area on the shores of Collin's Pool, more popular for crabbing than astrophotography :)
This particular image covers approximately 220 degrees of the night sky with the core of the galaxy setting to the west and the Magellanic Clouds visible to the south (left side). The moon can be seen setting to the left of the large, wind swept tree in the middle. It was only at about 5 percent illumination but looks much brighter due to the long exposure.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Foreground: 9 x 30 seconds
Sky: 32 x 25 seconds
H-Alpha: 4 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 45 shot panorama of the Crux and Carina region of the Milky Way above Cowcowing Lakes, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
The Magellanic Clouds can be seen centre right with Crux & Carina to the left of those. The deep red Gum Nebula is very prominent in the top left quadrant, captured using a special filter that isolates the hydrogen alpha wavelength.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 13 x 30 seconds
Sky: 46 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
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This is a 59 shot panorama of the Milky Way over Nambung Desert near Cervantes, about 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia. The desert is actually a small area of sand dunes just a half kilometre or so from the Indian Ocean and not more than about 3 square km in total area.
The light pollution is from Lancelin, a small coastal town about 50km away. The Magellanic Clouds are just to the right of this light pollution and a little further up and to the right is the magenta coloured Carina Nebula.
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 3200
f/2.5
Foreground: 35 x 30 seconds
Sky: 68 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 103 shot panorama of the Crux/Carina region of the Milky Way above Wellington Dam, about 2 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.
The unfinished mural on the dam wall is by Australian artist Guido van Helten and forms part of the Collie Mural Trail. It is now the largest dam mural in the world as it was completed earlier in the year. The setting moon to the west helped illuminate the mural before I started on the sky after it had set.
Prominent in the night sky here is the Carina Nebula, the pink splotch in the top left corner, the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds on the right as well as some significant green and red airglow.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Finally ! I had tried to go out aurora chasing with my teammate (colinhansen1967, go check his photostream) for several months now, since he had never seen the auroras or even taken photos of it. So yeah not a bad setup for his first time, and the addition of the rising Milky Way sure was a treat !
Anyway this is just a panorama I quickly stitched together and edited before going to bed, not ideal work but you get the idea. ;-)
4-shot panorama at 24mm, 20" at F3.2 and 2000ISO.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 4000
f/2.8
Foreground: 13 x 20 seconds
Sky: 55 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 68 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over a small unnamed lake near Quairading, about 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
I originally planned on going straight to another nearby location but made a last minute decision to detour here. The triangular strip of land in the central foreground is actually the road that normally passes through this lake but with heavy winter rains in the state it has been flooded over. To this point the night had been very calm with almost no wind but there was a steady breeze here rippling the surface of the lake creating a smooth texture due to the long exposure.
Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds to the left and the North America Nebula just above the horizon on the far right. The light pollution in the centre is from the Wheatbelt town of Quairading about 5km to the west.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 9 x 30 seconds
Sky: 32 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 41 shot panorama of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds above a wheat silo and canola field near Beverley, 1.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is an odd orientation for the core, I had really only planned on capturing the Carina/Crux region alongside the Magellanic Clouds but decided to add an extra row to capture the core as well, which was approaching zenith from the east, which explains the orientation.
The canola field was a nice surprise as I had traveled to the location only for the old silos and expecting a wheat crop (it is the Wheatbelt after all).
Nikon d5500
112 x 8 seconds
50mm + Hoya Filter
f/2.2
ISO 4000
Stitched in PTGui
Yet another trip to one of my favourite locations for astrophotography, Lake Clifton. Shot with a 50mm prime lens and a Hoya Red Intensifier filter, which helps to minimise light pollution while also enhancing nebulae. This image was taken from a little further away from the lake, in order to get the walkway into frame. This walkway was built over the lake to allow visitors to view the thrombolites, ancient lifeforms that are only found in a few locations on the planet.
This image covers approximately 210 degrees of the night sky. The Large & Small Magellanic Clouds can be seen on the left while the light pollution on the right is from the nearby city of Mandurah.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 4000
f/2.8
Foreground: 30 x 8 seconds
Sky: 38 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 68 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over a small unnamed lake near Quairading, about 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is the second panorama I took at this location on this night. I had planned to take just one, which I had begun with a decent breeze blowing but towards the end of that pano the wind died down completely and the lake was full of stars reflected from the sky above. There was no way I wasn't taking advantage of that opportunity :)
Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds to the left and the North America Nebula just above the horizon on the far right. The light pollution in the centre is from the Wheatbelt town of Quairading about 5km to the west.