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The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Foreground: 28 x 25 seconds
Sky: 71 x 25 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 99 shot panorama of the Carina/Crux region of the Milky Way above Lake Clifton's thrombolites, the most ancient lifeforms on Earth. To the right of the image are the Magellanic Clouds, neighbouring galaxies which orbit our own once every 1500 million years.
The Carina Nebula is the petal shaped pink object near the top left corner. Below that is the oblong shaped dark nebula, CoalSack, and hanging off that to the left is the famous constellation, Crux, more commonly referred to as the Southern Cross.
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: 6 x 30 seconds
Sky: 16 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 22 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds above Mt Trio in the Stirling Range National Park, four hours south of Perth in Western Australia. The pink above the horizon I believe is the faint glow of distant aurora that were quite active at the time...but I may be wrong, I've just never seen the sky that colour with normal airglow.
Near Cape Saunders, South Island, New Zealand.
An angel playing violin under the great arch of milky way.
Nikon D810 + PC-E Nikkor 24/3.5D lens with 25 shots stitched. Back of my usual light-painting method with 3200K temperature for a crystal-blue night sky.
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Nikon d5500
35mm
9 x 30 seconds
f/2.2
ISO 4000
iOptron SkyTracker
Our neighbours above Lake Clifton, an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.8
Foreground: 8 x 15 seconds
Sky: 34 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 42 shot panorama of the Crux region of the Milky Way above an abandoned farmhouse near Boddington, about 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
The light pollution below the Magellanic Clouds is from a nearby mining operation, its reddish hue is from the Hoya red enhancer filter.
The foreground was lit inadvertently by a local farmer passing by with a bright spotlight on his ute.
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 3200
f/2.2
Foreground: 4 x 30 seconds
Sky: 4 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is an 8 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds above Island Point, about one hour south of Perth in Western Australia. The Magellanic Clouds are a permanent fixture in much of the Southern Hemisphere's night skies but can also be seen in the Northern Hemisphere as far as 20 degrees latitude.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
I am always astonished by how much detail I can capture under good conditions from the flight deck of an airliner in cruise.
This image shows the splendor of the southern hemisphere sky captured from the flight deck of a Boeing 777-300ER at 35'000 feet over Brazil, during one of my flights to São Paulo in August.
The upper part of the image is dominated by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This irregular barred spiral galaxy was long considered to be gravitationally bound to our Milky Way. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006 (Nitya Kallivayalil et al.), however suggest the LMC may be moving too fast to be orbiting the Milky Way. Even more recent studies (Marius Cautun et al. 2019) on the other hand, found a much larger dark matter mass than expected. They predict this will eventually reverse the moving direction of the LMC and result in a merger with our Milky Way in 1.5 billion years.
In this image, the LMC is flanked on the left side by Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky and on the right side by the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy, whose gravitational bond to our Milky Way is unclear as well.
On lower left of the sky, you can see the Milky Way in the constellation Carina, with the prominent pink Eta Carinae Nebula, several beautiful open star clusters and some dark nebulae. These dark nebulae extend to the Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud Complex in the lower center of the image.
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EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2
Mount: Boeing 777-300ER
Sky:
Stack of 12x 5s @ ISO12800
Foreground:
Single exposure from the sky sequence
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
This shot is from 2012 sometime and is one of many such images that I've taken as part of the night photography/light painting trip that I seem to have been on over the last few years.
I have many more unpublished images of Bald Rock and Girraween National Parks, in this style, that I really should get around to organizing and uploading... if only I wasn't such a lazy bugger :)
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 4000
f/2.2
6 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 6 image panorama of the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds at Lake Ninan approximately 2 hours NE of Perth in Western Australia.
These two neighbouring galaxies can pretty much only be seen in the Southern Hemisphere. The LMC contains around 30 billion stars while the SMC contains just a few billion. The bright 'star' above the SMC is a globular cluster called 47 Tucanae containing around 500k stars.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
At a distance of just 200,000 light years, the Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the most distant objects we can see with the naked eye (from the southern hemisphere). SMC is home to several hundred million stars including some of the closest neighbors to our Milky Way Galaxy. It's thought to have had a barred spiral shape in the past but that was disrupted by our own Milky Way Galaxy - giving us the dwarf irregular galaxy we see today.
I captured this image (from my home in Colorado) using iTelescope.net's T8 telescope based in their Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales in Australia. I captured 42 images over 2 nights (in a 2x1 mosaic) and processed them with Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop.
The dark night sky with The Milky Way Galaxy filled with stars and a hint of the Southern Aurora from Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5100
35mm
80 x 13 seconds
ISO 3200
f2.0
Stitched in MS ICE
This is a 148 megapixel panorama spanning approximately 180 degrees of the night sky above Canning Reservoir in Western Australia. This reservoir supplies drinking water to the nearby city of Perth and its population of just under 2 million. The outskirts of the metro area are just 10km away.
This shot looks towards the control centre on the dam wall which was built back in 1940. Light pollution from the city can be seen leaking into the right hand side of the photo with the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds a little further left of that. Mars, which just came out of opposition a week or so earlier, is prominent in the top left, it's actually surrounded by a halo of light for some reason, possibly the result of a lens flare?
It was under exposed and I have brigthen it too much, hence a bit grainy.
The Magellan Clouds can be seen clearly though.
The two Magellanic Clouds (or Nubeculae Magellani) are a duo of irregular dwarf galaxies visible from the southern hemisphere, which are members of the Local Group and are orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. Because they both show signs of a bar structure, they are often reclassified as Magellanic spiral galaxies. The two galaxies are:
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), about 160,000 light-years away
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), about 200,000 light years away
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the Milky Way 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/2.5
Foreground: 20 x 15 seconds
Sky: 46 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 66 shot panorama of the Milky Way over Elephant Cove in Denmark, about 4.5 hours south of Perth in Western Australia. This little cove is adjacent to the more well know Greens Pool, a popular swimming lagoon west of Denmark.
Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds just above the rocks in the water, the Carina Nebula a bit further up and to the right and some red airglow above the horizon.
In the foreground, light painted with a handheld spotlight, you can just make out the Elephant Rocks formation on the right that the cove is named after. The night sky here was among the best I have ever seen in the state but maybe that was biased by the fact the core was almost directly overhead when I was pondering this ;-)
The Milky Way night sky filled with stars over the rural countryside in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Star trails in the Pilliga, north-western New South Wales, Australia. Sixty-eight fifteen sec exposures merged in Photoshop. I have not tried to edit out the plane or comet trails. The lighter areas are where there are high densities of stars in the Milky Way and where the Magellanic clouds are located.
The Pilliga is the largest inland forest in Australia. It is quite sparsely populated so star viewing is wonderful. Nearby is the world renowned Siding Spring astronomical observatory.
Taken at Pilliga Pottery, a working farm with a pottery studio and accommodation for tourists.
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f/3.5 15 secs ISO 800 15 mm Pentax DFA 15-30mm Pentax K-! MkII
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Filter
36 x 8 seconds
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Stitched in MS ICE
This is a 385 megapixel image of the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds taken at Herron Point, just south of Mandurah in Western Australia. These neighbouring galaxies are 160k & 200k light years away respectively. The LMC contains approximately 30 billion stars while the SMC contains a few billion. The bright 'star' above the SMC is a globular cluster called 47 Tucanae containing around 500k stars. They can only be seen in Southern Hemisphere skies, so lucky us I guess :)
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.
20 x 13 seconds
35mm
ISO 5000
f/1.8
Stitched in MS ICE
The Milky Way sets below the Mars-like landscape of The Pinnacles Desert. This is a 20 shot panorama taken as the core sets below the western horizon. The Large Magellanic Cloud can be seen on the left of the image above the light pollution of Perth, approximately 200km (120mi) to the south.
Orion rising between the Magellanic Clouds and the Zodiacal Light.
Panorama made from 6 vertical images.
I had the privilege to hike to a very remote crystal clear lagoon under the southern hemisphere skies in the Atacama desert in Chile. It was a challenge as the hike was an hour each way on rough salt flat terrain at 12,000 feet elevation and in the dark. It was also very cold. Our small group led by guides had to stay single file on a narrow path because these massive salt flats may have water under the surface and can swallow you like quicksand! This photo was the only moment when the air was so still, the stars' reflection in the lagoon were not trailed and appeared brighter than the actual stars above. It was also magical overhead with the Milky Way accompanied by two satellite galaxies: the small and large Magellanic Clouds. Taken with a Canon 6D and a 14mm Sigma Art lens @f/1.8. ISO 6400. A single 20 second exposure.
Another shot taken near Siding Spring Observatory in regional NSW, Australia. The skies in this area are very dark, but still the light pollution bubbles up all around. Here the Milky Way skirts the horizon, and the Large Magellanic Cloud (another galaxy) can be seen in the top left. Those guys under the yellow lights - more than 70 kms away and mostly in very small towns - couldn't have seen what was right above them. Just goes to show how much stray light must come from cities.
This is a stitched panorama of 7 images.
Not for the first time, the appearance of the two dwarf galaxies known as the “Magellanic Clouds” remind me of jellyfish, or similarly amorphous inhabitants of the ocean. Seeing them hovering over the Tasman Sea at Gerroa, Australia here in my photo makes that act of imagination a whole lot easier. The “Clouds” aren’t creatures, nor are they from the ocean, but are companions of our Milky Way galaxy, travelling with us through the Local Group of galaxies, yet visible to nocturnal folk here in the Southern Hemisphere.
To the upper-left of the Small Magellanic Cloud is what looks like an overgrown star, but is a globular star cluster–a big ball of stars, pretty much–with the unromantic name of 47 Tucanae. This bright and slightly fuzzy orb that I included in the photo is about 120 light-years in diameter, making it a massive ball of stars, indeed.
To produce this final photo, I shot two overlapping images & after editing those in Adobe Lightroom Classic, I stitched them together with the (now-defunct) application Autopano Pro. After stitching, I washed the composite frame through Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop (for noise reduction and improving some of the details). The two original frames that I took were shot with my Canon EOS 6D camera, fitted with a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/2.0, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 3200.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
I’m not sure how long it’s been since I posted a Milky Way arch photo. I’ve had this one in the can for several months now, so figured it was time to get it in front of some eyeballs.
As well as the Milky Way my photo takes in two other galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Jupiter, Saturn & Mars are here as well, and I also caught a lot of green atmospheric airglow in the panorama.
The location I captured the sky at on this clear night was Seven Mile Beach, near Gerroa, Australia. I shot 71 overlapping images, with my camera mounted on a “Nodal Ninja” panoramic head.
I shot each of the 71 individual frames with my Canon EOS 6D camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.8, using an exposure time of 10 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Aurora Australis beginning to light up the night sky over the rural land on the outskirts of Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand.
A shining bridge of stars across the heaven.
15-frame panorama starry sky portrait with Nikon D810 and PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f3.5D lens. I hope you will enjoy the sight of three galaxies in the sky.
Looking southward across Cuttagee Lake Bridge and upwards to the South Celestial Pole (no Pole Star for us southerners). The Milky Way is rising from a murky horizon with quite a bit of air glow. Som main features are marked by boxes (hover cursor over the frame). In a couple of weeks the galactic core will be making its annual appearance. The foreground is illuminated by my car's parking lights.
One image taken with an HD PENTAX-D FA 15-30mm f2.8 and Pentax Astrotracer with uncorrected distortion.