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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.
Another capture from Kogel Bay.
Taken at 7:35PM, only an hour and 15 minutes after the sunset I posted.
I was pretty amazed by the amount of stars I could see as I wasn't that far away from the surrounding major cities. Luckily for me the moon was no where to be seen.
Composed of two exposures, one for the foreground and a second for the sky. The light pollution definitely affected the colour tones, especially on the horizon, but I think the result is fine for this location. (I wasn't even planning on shooting after the sunset to be honest!)
Exposure details for the foreground and sky respectively:
f/4.5 ISO2000 225s
f/4.5 ISO6400 30s
12mm
I pushed the sensor as far as it could go so there a few hot pixels in the mix, but it's mostly stars. I'm definitely considering buying equipment for shooting stars like this. It's really great :).
Under the night sky at Poppethead Reserve in Kitchener, near Cessnock, in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.
Even at night, with only the feeble photons of atmospheric airglow to light the landscape, you can see that the water in this agricultural dam is a very unappealing colour. The still air on the night left the pond's surface undisturbed, offering me a mirrored but muted view of the treeline, the Milky Way and the light coming from the planet Jupiter. Despite the dirtiness of the pool's contents, you can still see some hues of starlight reflected in the water.
The Magellanic Cloud galaxies are conspicuous in the top-left corner of my panorama, keeping station as they travel through the Local Group of galaxies with our marvellous & majestic Milky Way. I've mentioned that Jupiter is one of the lights shining from the dark mirror, and you can see the source of that light in the sky above the dusty stretch of our home galaxy, as well as the planet Saturn up and to the right of Jupiter's bright beacon. It's frustrating that the clouds conspired to keep me from photographing the stars and planets during last weekend's New Moon period. With very few chances left to shoot the Milky Way's core region as the year draws to a close, so I'll be relying on my trove of shots from previous expeditionsālike this oneāto keep me posting here.
I created this panoramic photo by shooting thirteen overlapping single-frame images, then merging them using stitching software on my Mac. For each of those individual shots, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera set to an exposure time of 25 seconds @ ISO 6400 and fitted with a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.4.
In September of 2017, fellow nightscape photographer Ian Williams invited me to visit him in Canberra, Australiaās capital city, for a night sky photography session. Following one of Ianās nightscape workshops, we headed south through the town of Cooma, eventually stopping in one of the areaās characteristic rocky fields.
Despite the near-zero temperature, we spent a few hours making the most of the ultra-dark and mostly cloudless night, shooting as many compositions as we could before our fingers almost froze. Although Iāve previously shared other shots from that night, the image Iām posting today has been languishing in the depths of my hard drive for nearly four years.
As well as the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way, I included Ian and his ghostly double in my 38-frame panorama. The galaxies M31 and M33 are also in the picture but are almost washed out by the yellow light-bloom from Cooma, 26 km distant (16 mi).
Here are the settings and equipment I used to shoot each of the 38 frames that make up the panorama. Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
A few days back I posted a shot of the Large Magellanic Cloud hanging in the sky on its own. Tonight I have one for you of the Large cloud with its companion, the Small Magellanic Cloud, as they dominate the dark sky between above a field of corn near Bodalla, New South Wales, Australia. Iāve been to this location several times over the past three years and not noticed the power lines above the field. It was only after I checked the shot on my cameraās LCD that I noticed the three dark streaks scribed across the lower part of the scene. I detest power lines in my shots as much as I do clouds!
The power lines donāt ruin the shot, I guess, and are coincidentally positioned underneath the Small Magellanic Cloud and top and bottom of the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae. The cluster looks like a large star in this photo but is in fact a ball of approximately one million stars that are orbiting together in a roughly spherical arrangement. Down and to the right of the Small Magellanic Cloud you can see a blue-white star, Achernar. This is actually a binary system, with the second star informally known as āAchernar Bā. The pair are located about 140 light-years from Earth. These four objects are very familiar sights to watchers of the southern night skies.
This single-shot image was taken with a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.4, with a 15-second exposure @ ISO 6400.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
I shot this photo last Thursday night, 27th February. The only clouds visible were the two galaxies you see in the picture, known as the Magellanic Clouds. Astronomers classify these two blobs of light as dwarf galaxies, and they travel through space with our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
The Magellanic Clouds are a familiar sight to Southern Hemisphere folk whoāve spent even a little bit of time studying the night sky. The galaxies are easily mistaken for the meteorological objects after which theyāre named. If you look carefully, you can see the smaller cloudāaka the Small Magellanic Cloudāreflected in the water that the tide had washed over the rock shelf at Black Point Head, Gerroa, Australia.
With clouds and rain forecast for at least the next two weeks, I have to keep looking at photos like this to remind me that clear skies can come again.
The photo is a single-frame image, captured with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/3.2, using an exposure time of 20 seconds @ ISO 6400.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with pink streaks at Carcoar Dam in the Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, as viewed by ESAās Gaia satellite using information from the missionās second data release.
This view is not a photograph but has been compiled by mapping the total amount of radiation detected by Gaia in each pixel, combined with measurements of the radiation taken through different filters on the spacecraft to generate colour information.
The image is dominated by the brightest, most massive stars, which greatly outshine their fainter, lower-mass counterparts. In this view, the bar of the LMC is outlined in great detail, along with individual regions of star formation like the giant 30 Doradus, visible just above the centre of the galaxy.
Acknowledgement: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC); A. Moitinho / A. F. Silva / M. Barros / C. Barata, University of Lisbon, Portugal; H. Savietto, Fork Research, Portugal.
Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
The Milky Way night sky filled with stars over the rural countryside in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Desde el camino rural de Oro Verde, y mirando hacia el sur, podemos ver el gran paisaje nocturno, detrĆ”s de tres ombĆŗes: las Nubes de Magallanes, la VĆa LĆ”ctea a la derecha, y Colonia Ensayo iluminando las nubes cercanas.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Another throwback - last year's trip to South Island.
Aurora Australis, Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds all in one shot.
Church Of Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo
Sony A6000 + Samyang 8mm Fish Eye
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The rural night sky filled with stars as the Aurora Australis begins in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
It's almost clichĆ© to say that seeing the world through another's eyes can help you to understand a point of view that's different to your own. In my experience, the advice is worthwhile, and I challenge myself to keep on doing that every day. Therefore today's photo is a look at the night through the eyes of anotherāthose of a fish! Well, a fisheye lens at least.
The first fisheye lens was created by placing a photographic glass plate at the bottom of a bucket of water, using a "pinhole" aperture to let the light through. The first such photo was taken in 1905 by American physicist and inventor Robert W Wood. Photographers used the bucket-of-water method until 1922. That's not the kind of lens you could carry in your pocket!
I used a more conventional fisheye lens to shoot this photo of the Milky Way standing almost vertical over the 160-year-old Merrilla Uniting Church west of Goulburn, Australia. The Southern Cross is not too far above the tip of the church's finial piece, and the Magellanic Clouds seem to be hanging in the sky to the left of the building. The white glow shining from behind the church is light-spill from Australia's capital city, Canberra. At the upper left-hand corner, you can see the light from the nearby Goulburn city centre.
I shot this single-frame photo with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Samyang 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens @ f/4.0, using an exposure time of 25 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Corunna Lake is on the far south coast of my home state of New South Wales, Australia. From dawn until dusk during the hotter months of our yearāOctober through until Aprilāthe lakeās surface is stirred by the wakes from dozens of watercraft, be they petrol, electric or human-powered boats and the water-skiers towed behind some of them.
Come nightfall though, and especially now during winter, itās only the occasional splash from fish jumping that ruffles the top of the lake. With no boats, no breeze, no clouds and the moon having set earlier, last Saturday evening (July 6th) at Corunna Lake was a gift to the keen nightscape photographer. My LED lamp illuminated the rocks under the water at the lakeās edge, and the stars and atmospheric airglow lit up the sky. There was a tiny amount of movement in the water which has made the reflected stars look like theyāre making a slight circular movement. My photo has captured the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds suspended above the southeastern shoreline. You can see the southern end of the Milky Wayās central band parallel to the right-hand edge of the frame.
There are several other features of this nightās sky that I have highlighted for you on the marked-up version of this image, available by swiping to the left here on Instagram.
I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.8 to capture this scene, using an exposure time of 25 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Seen from South Canterbury, New Zealand. The cloud was rapidly increasing and soon obscured what was left of this display. The bright light along the bottom is from car headlights along a bumpy farm track, and the golden glow lighting up the cloud to the left of the image is urban light pollution.
Nikon d810a
85mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 7 x 20 seconds
Sky: 30 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Starscape filter
This is a 37 shot panorama of the Milky Way's Crux & Carina region and the Magellanic Clouds above a lone gum tree on a wheat farm at York, 1.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
A year after capture, new edit of this panorama, this time from the RAW images. I had to "trick" DxO Optics Pro 11 in reading the files after an EXIF change (hence why the shown camera isn't my D810A ...), so it's not ideal but the final result is a bit better. Saying that, I do not know why the stars are so deformed on the left corner ... O_o
4-shot panorama at 24mm, 20" at F3.2 and 2000ISO.
This was the first time for my friend colinhansen1967 (go check his photostream) that he could witness the Southern Lights, after several failed attempts due to bad weather. Colours reflecting in the Pacific Ocean, and a rising Milky Way made for a nice setup. :-)
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Aurora Australis seen from Manuka Terrace, Ben Ohau in late february 2023. After missing a display in the previous week, i had a nice surprise the day before this seeing a nice display, which i thought i was pretty content with. Looking back, the previous night pales in comparision as this night was to be one of the strongest displays of early 2023. I could visibly see the sky change to a pale crimson colour and even see white pillars growing in front of me, it was absolutely incredible. Even more fortunate was that we were on holiday in New Zealand from the UK for 3 weeks and this display happened to occur whilst we were staying in an isolated cabin with a clear southerly view with minimal light pollution, talk of the right place at the right time.
Away from the lights out in the country in the dead of night the sars shine bright at Kitchener, near Cessnock, in the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.
My first opportunity to see and photograph the night sky in three months, due to La NiƱa generating persistent cloud and rain.
This is an uncropped image showing part of the Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds. Although it wasn't visible to me, the camera's sensor captured some rather nice Air Glow.
Laowa 12mm f2.8
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Another trip to the Pinnacles :)
This spot is fairly close to the Emu Downs Wind Farm so I thought I'd make a slight detour and grab a few extra shots. The core of the Milky Way still isn't visible at this time of year so all I had to work with was the 'tail end' of the core as well as the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds. Rigil Kent is the lowest prominent star, inbetween the two pinnacles, with Hadar just above and to the left.
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.
Trees and night sky with large and small magellanic clouds at Poppethead Reserve 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 MOPRA radio telescope facility is located near Coonabarabran / Siding Spring Observatory / Warrumbungle National Park in NSW, Australia. It is 22 metres in diameter and is operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
A bit of interference "noise" from the scope is apparent.
Taken in April, 2018 during the inaugural Astrophotography / iTelescope Masterclass held by Dr. Christian Sasse at Siding Spring Observatory.
Timelapse shot on April 18, 2018.