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The Milky Way at 10:50 pm over Bodie last Friday night, July 25, during our last workshop. I used a combination of direct and reflected light to illuminate the church.
This is not a processing artifact... this is a shot form the middle of a 5 hour time-lapse sequence i shot last night, and the color developed as the camera was out shooting.
Oxygen atoms glow green in the earth's atmosphere, and on moonless nights you can often see traces of this green light in the sky. It's easiest to see from the side since you're looking at more cumulative photons of that light, so it's most often noticed close to the horizon. On this night however, the effect was intense enough to fill the frame as seen through a 16mm ultra-wide lens.
Added some data from last year to this years data
23x300s
40x200s
ASI071MC-Cool, ED120, CGX, SkyGlow filter
June 9, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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One my favorite things to do... Watch a ominous lighting intense storm come over the horizon. With continuous cloud to cloud lightning & a few cloud to ground strikes. This was one of those perfect photogenic Nebraska storms.
Severe warned right after sunset. Found an open spot to shoot just some incredible June storm photography for 2022!
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A quick shot of the constellation Orion rising over the trees in my backyard last evening, January 30, 2016 in Weatherly, PA (USA). Canon 6D, Canon EF17-40mm f/4L USM lens, 25 seconds, f/4, 17mm. Also included a Tiffen 77mm STar 4PT 2mm filter.
From the same night as the horsehead nebula.
37x300s @ ISO400 lights
20x300s @ ISO400 darks
100x1/8000s @ ISO400 bias
90x8s @ ISO400 flat
Skywatcher 200PDS
HEQ5 PRO
Nikon D7000 (Ha mod)
Orion Skyglow 2" LP filter
Processing in Pixinsight 1.8
A galaxy that I haven't really imaged before due to my fears that it might be too faint for my light polluted location. And indeed the outer edges of the galaxy are extremely faint. But a painful processing session and lots of integration time made for an okay image in the end!
70x240s @ ISO400 lights
20x240s @ ISO400 darks
100x1/8000s @ ISO400 bias
30x2s @ ISO400 flat
Skywatcher 200PDS
HEQ5 PRO
Nikon D7000 (Ha mod)
Orion Skyglow 2" LP filter
Processing in Pixinsight 1.8
If you might like to join us this year, we have five night photography workshops and two morning/interior workshops scheduled in Bodie in 2016:
Saturday June 4 – night
Sunday June 5 morning/interiors
June 27 *FULL*
Friday, July 29 - night
(Saturday, July 30 - Bodie Ghost Stories)
(Saturday, August 27 - Bodie Ghost Stories)
Sunday August 28 – night
Saturday October 1 – morning / interiors
Saturday October 1 – night
We have four nights and two interior access sessions with space remaining. Two of our Bodie nights are timed to be the night before or after a Bodie "Ghost Stories" night, when the park lets anyone stay until 10 pm with regular park admission. That doesn't give visitors much more than sunset and twilight in the long days of summer, but it's still after-hours access, a perfect practice session before our August 28 workshop or following our July 29 workshop.
More details, prices, and frequently asked questions are included on the Bodie Workshops page on my Web site:
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photogra...
It's great to see the level of Mono Lake coming up! I occasionally lead a seminar for the Mono Lake Committee, to support their work as well as the agencies that they work with (USDA Forest Service, California State Parks, etc.). In recent years we've raised approximately $14,000 via the Mono Lake Committee and over $60,000 through the Bodie Foundation. I feel it's important to give back and support resource management for our local parks and public lands.
Some guy walked up behind us, repeatedly spilled bright light onto our foreground, then yelled when light from our group accidentally spilled back where he had moved in behind us!
Such conflicts come with the territory in popular places, but it's a great example of why I don't support popularizing other, less crowded places for night photography. Common courtesy is disturbingly uncommon!
I waited a year and one day to get a 2nd try at this photo. A much better looking sky this time around, but missing out on the colorful reflections. I'm sure I could process it more heavily, but I guess that's not my thing.
The original: www.flickr.com/photos/mbinebri/25523019748/
An Iridium communication satellite reflects sunlight as it orbits the earth. Seen over the firehouse in Bodie State Historic Park.
I have requested my 2019 Bodie night photography workshop dates, hope to have them available for deposit soon! The night photography program in Bodie raises money for building stabilization, to keep the ghost town in its state of arrested decay. The original contract to transfer the town to the State in the 1960s actually required that the town be left "as is", so to the extent possible, everything it maintained to the state it was over 50 years ago.
On this night in Bodie we decided to try to get a Milky Way reflection in the front window of the Wheaton & Hollis Hotel. We traded places every couple of exposures so everyone caught a variety of compositions.
I shot this on the Canon 14mm lens and performed perspective correction in post-processing.
I hope to have my 2017 Bodie workshop dates confirmed shortly,
The summer Milky Way over and reflected in the relatively calm water of Pyramid Lake in Jasper National Park, on a mid-October night. The Jasper Sky Tram adds the lights on Whistler Peak. Bands of airglow tint the sky with red. Lights from the Jasper townsite, still mostly unshielded sodium vapour lights as of 2022, add the skyglow at left. Altair is the bright star at top. The red Lagoon Nebula is just setting behind the mountain skyline. The slight wind rippled the water enough to prevent a perfect reflection.
I shot this during the first weekend of the 2022 Jasper Dark Sky Festival, and so there were quite a few people on the island, and next to me at this spot, and around Pyramid Lake enjoying the stars on this mild autumn night.
This is a blend of: a stack of 4 x 1-minute tracked exposures for the sky at ISO 1600 plus a stack of 7 x 2-minute untracked exposures at ISO 800 for the ground, plus an additional single 1-minute tracked exposure for the reflected stars and the foreground water. All were with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and f/2.8 and Canon R5. The tracker was the Star Adventurer Mini. The tracked exposures were shot first, followed immediately by the untracked ground exposures. I enhanced the landscape slightly with the Radiant Photo plug in and added a mild Orton glow with Luminar Neo. Noise reduction was with ON1 NoNoise AI.
We have our dates! Our 2025 season offers a range of workshops including special access to the Wild West ghost town of Bodie:
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photogra...
It was 16 degrees in Bodie at 1 am last night (8375 feet elevation), fortunately 32 degrees back down on 395. The wind is strong and gusty at Topaz lake this morning. The storm coming in tonight could knock a lot of turned leaves down, and burn many of the remaining green ones to brown and black.
First light for the ASIAir I picked up.
19x300s
ASI071MC-Cool
ASIAir, AVX, Orion SkyGlow filter, WO SpaceCat 51.
IC 1871, en la la nebulosa Alma, Casiopea.
Adquisición de datos: Christopher Gomez, Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA.
Procesado: Gerard Tàrtalo Montardit, Societat Astronòmica de Lleida.
Telescopio: TPO RC8"
Cámara fotográfica: QSI 690 WSG-8
Montura: Orion Atlas EQ-G
Reductor de focal: Stellarvue SFFR70APO
Orion SkyGlow 2" Astrophotography Filter
Tomas SHO:
Astrodon SII 3nm: 21x1200" -10ºC bin 1x1
Astrodon Ha 5nm : 18x1200" -10ºC bin 1x1
Astrodon OIII 3nm: 21x1200" -10ºC bin 1x1
Tiempo de integración total: 20 horas
Darks: ~30
Flats: ~30
Bias: ~30
The Milky Way gets high in the sky in the early part of the night in July, so we have a lot of the bright region around the galactic center to include in compositions.
To cover thousands of dollars in deposits and fees for 2017, many of my workshops have an early enrollment sale until February 28: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photogra....
LDN 1251 is a dark star forming region in the constellation of Cepheus. It lies approximately 1,000 light years away from Earth. This dark cloud obscures newborn stars shown in the reddish regions of the image. There are also some distant galaxies just visible behind some of the lighter dusty regions.
Taken last year at Los Coloraos, just before my camera decided to break down and needed returning the manufacturers for repair. This created a big gap in my plans for summer and winter imaging but it’s back now and fully functional. This is also known as the Rotten Fish Nebula, but I prefer the alternative name Anglerfish Nebula.
A high resolution image and full imaging details available a astrob.in/8dj4mm/0/
Remotely imaged over 3 nights from Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain.
162 x 300 second exposures.
Total image time: 13 hours 30 minutes
Telescope: William Optics GT81 APO f/5.6
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled to -5C
Filter: Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Captured with: NINA, processed with PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom Classic
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We decided that this location was one of our favorites for the year, despite the constant traffic in and out of the popular touristy area the reflections off the lake were incredible and the interesting lighting created by the headlights made for a very cool foreground. This is a lesson in how to make a pretty tall mountain range look very very small, the sky up here is HUGE and the prominence of the Milky Way tends to put large things in a small perspective. That night we had a good Aurora event and the airglow/skyglow colors were fantastic due to the increased solar activity. All in all this is a wonderful location to take pictures from and a night I won't ever forget.
15 exposures for this image all shot with a Nikon Z7 and Sigma Art 40mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini tracking mount. 9 sky exposures were 2 minutes at ISO 800 and f2, 3 foreground exposures were 1.5 minutes at ISO 1600 and f1.4, and 3 reflection exposures at 30 seconds, ISO 10000, and f2.