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Part of the Milky Way containing the dark Emu nebulae sinks towards the SW horizon about 15 km NW of Gunnedah on the Black Soil Plains. The two Magellanic Clouds are visible on either side of the twin power poles.
IRIX 15mm f2.4 Blackstone
Day 17 of Pentax Forum's Daily in July 2018 Challenge
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the busy night sky filled with stars and satellites over Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
A trip out to Mudgee, for an evening shooting the stars with the Canon Collective
The Milky Way rises from the light pollution we think came from Sydney - even from a few hundred kilometres away...
Near Dubbo, NSW, Australia. November 2017. What a dark and starry night! The Greater Magellanic Cloud lay close to the eastern horizon. The tree line marks the Golden Highway, with road trains intermittently rumbling past and chasing away the dark.
Family portrait of the four Unit Telescopes at Paranal Observatory. UT4 is using its four 20 watts lasers to excite sodium atoms about 80-90 km above the ground. This creates four artificial “stars” that can be used to measure and correct the atmospheric turbulence, delivering tack sharp images of astronomical targets. The blue smudge to the left is the Small Magellanic Cloud, and the bright orange spot to the top is Mars.
The rural night sky filled with stars as the Aurora Australis begins in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
I should really have taken more frames for this, but all I actually wanted to capture was the Magellanic Clouds, then just kept shooting :)
So last Friday night after work I drove from Auckland to Whareroa, Lake Taupo, with my cousin, a 4-5 hour journey. We were spending the weekend down at Taupo with the family. The sun set on our way down, but wasn't in a good spot to take in photos, so we kept driving. We eventually came to a spot where we could see Mt Ruapehu, Mt Ngaurahoe and Mt Tongariro with the remains on the sunset behind them and stopped on the side of the road to get some photos. We pushed our way through some thorny blackberry bushes, ending up cut and bleeding then jumped a farmers fence to climb a nearby hill to get a good view. What a view it was, I took a few photos of the mountains silhouetted against the last light of the sunset (which I will upload tomorrow). On our way back down the hill I turned around and looked up at the Night Sky to see this beautiful view shown in the photo. The half moon was directly behind this shot lighting up the grass slightly and the stars were as bright as ever. I took several snaps in awe and tried to capture the scene best I could, with the gear I had.
I was shooting at 1600 iso on a canon 60d so the noise was pretty bad, but managed to clean it up slightly. In this one you can see what looks to be a shooting star in the middle left and possibly a magellanic cloud in the top right.
The powerpole in the middle of the shot was at the top of the hill and I couldn't really avoid it so I just accepted that it was going to be in the photo.
Hope you enjoy and any help identifying stars/features of the sky and comments/constructive critique is welcome.
50 stacked pictures of 200” exposure time each.
Taken with a Canon 6D mark I camera and a Canon 24-70mm f4 lens (at 70mm).
Camera mounted on a SkyWatcher Star Adventurer mount.
Taken at Paranal Observatory.
The Milky Way put on a fairly good display this evening before high cloud moved in. The Southern Cross and Coal Sack Nebula are prominent at the bottom of the frame and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are prominent to the right of the Milky Way. Beyond them is Achernar (α Eridanus) and upper centre is Canopus (α Carina).
Uncropped image taken with an IRIX 15mm f2.4 Blackstone lens using Pentax K1 with in-built astrotracer.
The very bright Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus or the Doradus Nebula) is an H II region in the very dense Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The Tarantula Nebula is the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of Galaxies.
About this image:
This wide field image consists of 14 x 2 minute exposures at ISO 6400. Photographed in the rural dark skies of the Karoo (Northern Cape, South Africa).
About the Star Colors:
You will notice that star colors differ from red, orange and yellow, to blue. This is an indication of the temperature of the star's Nuclear Fusion process. This is determined by the size and mass of the star, and the stage of its life cycle. In short, the blue stars are hotter, and the red ones are cooler.
Gear:
GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian Reflector Telescope.
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector.
Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Aurora Flatfield Panel.
Celestron AVX Mount.
Celestron StarSense.
Canon 60Da DSLR.
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.1.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Lights/Subs: 14 x 120 sec. ISO 6400 CFA FIT Files.
Calibration Frames:
50 x Bias
30 x Darks
20 x Flats
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/1191958#annotated
RA, Dec center: 84.5358996211, -69.1714612158 degrees
Orientation: 1.16214860863 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 6.80102321917 arcsec/pixel
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The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160 000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa.
Despite being only 10–20% as massive as the Milky Way galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud contains some of the most impressive star-forming regions in the nearby Universe. The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local Universe. At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most massive stars known, which weigh in at roughly 200 times the mass of the Sun.
The section of the nebula shown here features serene blue gas, brownish-orange dust patches and a sprinkling of multicoloured stars. The stars within and behind the dust clouds appear redder than those that are not obscured by dust. Dust absorbs and scatters blue light more than red light, allowing more of the red light to reach our telescopes and making the stars appear redder than they are. This image incorporates ultraviolet and infrared light as well as visible light. Using Hubble observations of dusty nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud and other galaxies, researchers will study these distant dust grains, helping to understand the role that cosmic dust plays in the formation of new stars and planets.
[Image Description: A section of a nebula, made up of layers of coloured clouds of gas, of varying thickness. In the background are bluish, translucent and wispy clouds; on top of these are stretches of redder and darker, clumpy dust, mostly along the bottom and right. In the bottom left corner are some dense bars of dust that block light and appear black. Small stars are scattered across the nebula.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray; CC BY 4.0
Only a minute or two before I took this photo, the moon had started to make its appearance for the night. Although not yet clear of the horizon, the Earth’s silvery companion-in-space was already beginning to brighten the sky with its light.
The Milky Way’s core was very low on the southwestern horizon when I shot this scene. I had quite a few shots of that part of the sky already “in the can”, so opted to snap off a few frames with the Magellanic Clouds featured over this old stone church. The stones are old, for sure, with locals having completed the building in 1859. I but I think I’m right in guessing, though, that the plastic water tank and corrugated metal roof might not be of the same vintage as the bulk of the structure.
This photo is a single-frame image that I captured using a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.4, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.
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.
With our city of Sydney, Australia currently in lockdown due to the COVID-19 Delta variant, I find it liberating to look at my night-sky photos. The images are a reminder that I’ll be back out under the stars once again–hopefully soon–breathing the fresh country air and appreciating how good life can be.
I shot this photo of the ghostly remnant of a gum tree–an Australian eucalypt–under the Magellanic Cloud galaxies when I stayed at Tuross Head, New South Wales, back in early June. The purplish tinge of the atmospheric airglow that was prominent in the sky on the night provided a lovely backdrop for the blue-white wisps of light known as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. If you look at the sky over the top-left half of the tree, you can see some dark patches punctuating the brighter background. These disturbances are caused by a phenomenon known as gravity waves, which are not to be confused with the more enigmatic “gravitational waves” that were first detected in 2015.
Today’s photo is a single-frame image that I shot with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Portrayed in this image from ESA’s Planck satellite are the two Magellanic Clouds, among the nearest companions of our Milky Way galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years away, is the large red and orange blob close to the centre of the image. The Small Magellanic Cloud, some 200 000 light-years from us, is the vaguely triangular-shaped object to the lower left.
At around ten and seven billion times the mass of our Sun, respectively, these are classed as dwarf galaxies. As a comparison, the Milky Way and another of its neighbours, the Andromeda galaxy, boast masses of a few hundred billion solar masses each.
The Magellanic Clouds are not visible from high northern latitudes and were introduced to European astronomy only at the turn of the 16th century. However, they were known long before by many civilisations in the southern hemisphere, as well as by Middle Eastern astronomers.
Planck detected the dust between the stars pervading the Magellanic Clouds while surveying the sky to study the cosmic microwave background – the most ancient light in the Universe – in unprecedented detail. In fact, Planck detected emission from virtually anything that shone between itself and the cosmic background at its sensitive frequencies.
These foreground contributions include many galaxies, near and far, as well as interstellar material in the Milky Way. Astronomers need to remove them in order to access the wealth of cosmic information contained in the ancient light. But, as a bonus, they can use the foreground observations to learn more about how stars form in galaxies, including our own.
Interstellar dust from the diffuse medium that permeates our Galaxy can be seen as the mixture of red, orange and yellow clouds in the upper part of this image, which belong to a large star-forming complex in the southern constellation, Chameleon.
In addition, a filament can also be seen stretching from the dense clouds of Chameleon, in the upper left, towards the opposite corner of the image.
Apparently located between the two Magellanic Clouds as viewed from Planck, this dusty filament is in fact much closer to us, only about 300 light-years away. The image shows how well this structure is aligned with the galaxy’s magnetic field, which is represented as the texture of the image and was estimated from Planck’s measurements.
By comparing the structure of the magnetic field and the distribution of interstellar dust in the Milky Way, scientists can study the relative distribution of interstellar clouds and the ambient magnetic field. While in the case of the filamentary cloud portrayed in this image, the structure is aligned with the direction of the magnetic field, in the denser clouds where stars form filaments tend to be perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field.
The lower right part of the image is one of the faintest areas of the sky at Planck’s frequencies, with the blue hues indicating very low concentrations of cosmic dust. Similarly, the eddy-like structure of the texture is caused primarily by instrument noise rather than by actual features in the magnetic field.
The emission from dust is computed from a combination of Planck observations at 353, 545 and 857 GHz, whereas the direction of the magnetic field is based on Planck polarisation data at 353 GHz. The image spans about 40º.
Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The southern sky splendours over the OzSky Star Party, with the Milky Way from Vela to Centaurus, including Crux and Carina left of upper centre. The Large Magellanic Cloud is at lower right below Canopus.
This section of sky contains a large number of the splendours of the southern hemisphere sky.
This is a single tracked 2-minute exposure with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 2500.
Perched atop Cerro Paranal, our telescopes tirelessly scan the Southern skies under the silentwatch of the Magellanic Clouds.
Canon 6D + Rokinon 24 mm f2, 30 sec, ISO3200. Edited in Lightroom, Affinity Photo and Nik.
The southern Milky Way over the beach at Smoky Cape, NSW, Australia, looking into Hat Head National Park. I shot this from the back garden of the Smoky Cape Lighthouse, April 28, 2016, looking south toward the Magellanic Clouds and the main section of the southern Milky Way. The Southern Cross is at upper left; Orion is setting at far right. Sirius is at right and Canopus at centre. The lights on the horizon are from Kempsey. Sky colouration is from light pollution and from airglow.
The sky is from a single 1-minute exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 3200, untracked. The ground is from a mean combine stack of four 1-minute exposures to smooth noise in the foreground where it is more noticeable than in a starry sky.
The beams from the lighthouse were sweeping across the scene as I took these exposures but the long exposures and fast motion of the beams blurred them out of visibility. They are lighting the hills. Foreground illumination is from house lights and a yard light.
The 'tail' of the core is seen rising above the ranges, the full core wasn't visible yet for another few hours, which of course I had to get up again for that morning.
Also seen in this photo are the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Crux or, as we call it in Australia, The Southern Cross.
Nikon d5100
30 seconds
f2.8
ISO 3200
11mm
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
A trip out to Mudgee, for an evening shooting the stars with the Canon Collective
Our outer spiral arm & the 2 galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds. Only seen in the Southern Hemisphere, so come on down!!
The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds over the UT4 telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile. Vertical mosaic of four landscape pictures. Canon 6D + Rokinon 24mm f/2, 30 secs, ISO 6400
A close up to the Tarantula
The diagonal line in the image is either a shooting star or a passing-by satellite, I wish I knew. And of course, the subject of the photo is the gorgeous blue spider.
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Un acercamiento a la Tarántula
La línea diagonal en la imagen es o una estrella fugaz o un satélite que pasaba. Quisiera saber cuál fue. Y por supuesto, el sujeto de la foto es la hermosa araña azul.
The Milky Way night sky filled with stars, light cloud and a hint of the Southern Aurora in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Milky Way Starlit Sky with clouds and Small Magellanic Cloud in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Magellanic Clouds behind Auxiliary Telescope 3 at Paranal, with some rather intense airglow. Red airglow is emitted via the rotation & vibration of hydroxyl molecules in the atmosphere. It's not visible to the naked eye, but it does show up in pictures and astronomical data.
The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis and the night sky filled with stars in Blayney, Central West, NSW, Australia.
The Milky Way, including Sagitarius (left), Southern Cross (top) and the two Magellanic clouds float above the Cuttagee Lake Bridge, Far South Coast, NSW, Australia.
An uncropped test image using a Rokinon 8mm lens on a Pentax K1 in crop mode.
This frames the Australian aboriginal "Dark Emu" made of dark dust lanes in the Milky Way as it rises in the east. The spectacular southern reaches of the Milky Way from Centaurus to Carina shine above high in the south, including the Southern Cross. The dark Coal Sack beside the Cross is the head of the Emu. Her neck is the dark lane that splits the Milky Way starting at the star Alpha Centauri and extending down and into Scorpius, here rising above the trees.
The faint Zodiacal Band is visible at left. The two Magellanic Clouds are setting at right.
This is a blend of four tracked exposures for the sky and one for the ground, all two minutes at ISO 1600 with the TTArtisan 11mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the filter modified Canon EOS R camera, on the old iOptron SkyTracker. The camera was equipped with an Astronomik clip-in UV/IR Cut filter which when used with this lens actually reduces its off-axis aberrations.
Taken late at night on March 10/11, 2024 at the Warrumbungles Mountain Motel near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, during the OzSky star party. The red light is from my other camera rig taking panorama images of the Milky Way.
For this image I reduced the stars to emphasize the Milky Way and dark lanes, using RC-Astro StarXterminator, and an Apply Image function to create a "stars only" layer to blend back in selectiively using a luminosity mask, to reduce the profusion of faint stars but retain the brightest stars.