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Ever since radio astronomy has become a main scientific field in South Africa, images like this are now part of the African landscape.
This is the KAT7 radio telescope, a precursor for the MeerKAT array, now being built and featured in previous photographs.
The Milky Way and its two companions, the Magellanic Clouds light up the sky in this 7-frame panorama.
This is the last one in this series of night-time photo's.
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 pink streaks at Carcoar Dam in the Central West, NSW, Australia.
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.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon d5100
11mm
ISO 5000
f2.8
15 x 25 seconds
stitched in MS ICE
The last of the Canning Dam panos. I wanted to get further down to capture more of the dam wall but it was pretty inaccessible, especially in the dark so this will have to do :)
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 night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
An old mining rig shaft under the night sky with milky way. Poppethead Reserve is a Regional Park. The site is the historic Poppethead of the Aberdare Central Colliery at Kitchener, near Cessnock, in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.
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.
this image was taken at Thuraggi Channel near St George, Queensland, Australia.
I recently changed my gear to a Nikon Df camera and a Sigma 14mm 1.8 lens, so far I am happy with this combination, they are fantastic for light gathering and low noise. The milky way and other objects really stand out as does the green and red airglow. A bit of coma in the corners but I think I can live with it, not good but I have seen worse (it was shot at f1.8).
The night sky rural scene with Milky Way and Magellanic Cloud at Broke in the Hunter Region, NSW, Australia.
The rural night sky filled with stars as the Aurora Australis begins in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Long exposure centered on the south pole region. The bright patch to the upper left is the Milk Way, and the smaller patches of light (lower left, and centre) are the Magellanic clouds. Total time was approximately 23 1/2 minutes, and it was stopped down to f/16 in an attempt to minimize light pollution.
We had just finished the Dark Skies of Wonder Astrophotography workshop at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand recently, when all of the sudden this stunning arc of light formed low to the horizon to the south. It was the Aurora Australis making an appearance, but somewhat unique, as the arc formation wasn't really seen that much in the southern hemisphere. I knew I had to get a photo of it, so jumped in my car to head to a location near Lake Alexandrina where we had been shooting earlier in the night. The location was perfect for the photo I had in mind. The Aurora was arcing behind the big old tree there, and the Magellanic Clouds were also stunning in the night sky. I composed the scene in front of me, and took the shot - this was certainly one night of astrophotography to remember...
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The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
“Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.”
James Stephens, Irish poet, 1880–1950.
It was easy not to make a noise as I stood here at the Cuttagee bridge on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, looking at the stars in April this year. Nature was providing a wonderful soundscape already and did not need any effort on my part. To my left was the repeating thud as waves flopped onto the beach at the edge of the Tasman Sea while soothing bubbling and gurgling calls issued from the hasteless flow of Cuttagee Creek as it passed under the old bridge to join that same watery expanse.
Augmenting the aural beauty was the scene in the sky, with starry points of light, a star cluster or two, and the powder-puff wisps of the Magellanic Clouds wordlessly telling of their wonders to all who would hear.
I created this image by shooting two overlapping photos and stitching them together. Both frames were shot with a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.8, using an exposure time of 10 seconds @ ISO 6400.
When I go out photographing the night sky, I tend to spend a lot of time looking up trying to get my head around the vastness of spacet's really is incomprehensible when you think of how big space really is so I thought I list a few facts with this photo.
- The nearest star to our own Sun is Proxima Centauri, and that is 40 trillion km away.
- The Large Magellanic Clouds, which is can be seen near the centre of this photo, is an irregular dwarf galaxy 158,200 light years from earth. Now light travels at 300,000km per second, so you can just imagine how far away the Large Magellanic Cloud is when light travels that fast for 158,200 years and that is a relatively close distance compared to the scale of our universe!
- The visible universe stretches out to around 13 billion light years from earth and contains around 100 billion galaxies. And each one of those galaxies contain around 100 billion stars - that means the visible universe contains something like 10,000 million million stars. And if you want to attempt to even put that into perspectiveell basically there are more stars in the visible universe than there are grains of sand on our earth!
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Seemingly suspended in the night sky over the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, the puff-like Magellanic Clouds dominate this scene I photographed in mid-June of 2023. These unimaginatively named galaxies—the “Small” and “Large” Magellanic Clouds—never set below the horizon in many areas of Australia and were at their lowest point in the sky when I snapped them.
A lucky strike was the meteor that flashed for less than a second to provide the bright streak to the left of the Large cloud. The ambient temperature at ground level (about 800 metres / 2624 feet above sea level) was below zero degrees C as I stood beside my tripod. Several degrees colder high above my position, the moist night air shows a thin but noticeable fog in my photo that caused the background sky to look whiter here than I could see with my eyes.
This photo was created by shooting ten frames of the same part of the sky and stacking them in the Macintosh app “Starry Landscape Stacker” to reduce digital noise and enhance the final image. I captured each of those ten shots using a Canon EOS 6D camera and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.6, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/2.8
Foreground: 7 x 25 seconds
Sky: 30 x 25 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 37 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way above The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
Joined by a couple of other astrophotographers, we made the trek up here to photograph the comet for the last time but it’s also that time of year where the core rises early in the morning so we were able to capture that as well as the summer arch and, as you see here, the Milky Way as it aligns vertically with the horizon.
The Milky Way arching over the Southern Ocean, including the Large Magellanic Cloud , Small Magellanic Cloud and an iridium flare.
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 2500
f/2.2
6 x 8 seconds
This is a 6 shot panorama of last year's May 11 worldwide aurora event at Stirling Dam, 1.5 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.
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.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars and a bit of smoke in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Nikon D5100
16 x 25 seconds
11mm
ISO 5000
f3.2
16 shot panorama of the 'other end' of the Milky Way or the tail end of the core if you prefer, stretching from Rigil Kent on the right to Auriga on the left. This is the summer view across Southern Hemisphere skies with the Magellanic Clouds also prominent.
Nikon d5100
11mm
ISO 5000
f2.8
5 x 25 seconds
I went a bit crazy with the panoramas on this night, here's another of the control station, this time a close up :)
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Worth zooming in.
The large magellanic cloud plus a side show of a couple of satellites. This is a single photo, single exposure, single composition. Taken with my 85 mm / F1.8 portrait lens. Not bad for a 2 sec exposure at 16000 ISO!
Processed in DxO PhotoLab 3.1 to reduce some noise, adjust contrast and darks and eliminate purple fringing. Photo taken from my driveway during the Covid-19 lock down period. Though I live in a rural area it is only about 10 km from Hamilton City.
The rural night sky filled with stars as the Aurora Australis begins in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
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 Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Thematic image (torch light) for Day 14 of Pentax Forums Daily in March 2020 Challenge.
IRIX 15mm f2.4 Blackstone
In the darkness of the Starry Night Sky under the Milky Way taken in Blayney, Central NSW, Australia.
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.
While zipping over Brazil, during the final stages of my Swiss International Air Lines flight to São Paulo, we were accompanied by the wonders of the southern hemisphere sky.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and its smaller cousin, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), are visible near the upper edge of this image. These dwarf galaxies were long thought to be gravitationally bound to the Milky Way Galaxy. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006, however, suggest that they may be moving too fast to be orbiting our home galaxy.
The bright 'star' to the right of the SMC is 47 Tucanae, the second brightest globular cluster in Earth's sky, containing half a million solar masses. This is a chance alignment. At a distance of 15'000 light years, the 47 Tucanae is much closer to us than the dwarf galaxy at almost 200'000 light years. According to a new study, the SMC may actually also be a chance alignment of two star-forming regions superimposed along our line of sight, separated bt almost the same distance as 47 Tucanae from us.
In the lower left of the image, another wonder of the southern sky, the Carina Nebula, is just clearing the horizon. The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies. It is about 4 times the size of the famous Orion Nebula. At a distance of 7500 light years, it is about half as far away from us as 47 Tucanae. The Carina Nebula has a diameter of 200 light years, which is 1/1000th of the distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud, or 200 billion (2×10¹¹) times the distance we flew from Zurich to São Paulo.
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Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by Richard Galli from EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
Mount: Boeing 777-300ER
Sky: Stack of 68x 5s @ ISO6400
Foreground: Stack of 5 exposures from the sky sequence
Cape Palliser, Palliser Bay, North Island.
A girl showering in the rain of the starlight.
"Three galaxies in the sky, one little angel by the sea"
Nikon D810 with Nikkor 20/1.8 lens and panorama stitched from 15 frames.
There always something we will never forget.