Flood lights on the Murray
I was here at Walkers Flat , South Australia, last night working out a location for a milky way shot. At about 7.30 there was a blaze of high powered floodlights , from a vessel, slowly coming upstream towards me. It turned out to be the 'Proud Mary', a river cruise boat. ( I think )
The cliffs and the trees along the river looked just fantastic all lit up this way. I took several shots of this as the vessel approached and blended them together later.
I then crossed over the river on the ferry and drove to Forster Lookout, a short distance upstream..
There , I shot the milky way shots, when it appeared at roughly this angle to the river
I took 1 x 120 sec and 2 x 90 second tracked shots and stacked them in Sequator.
This night was also be the peak of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower with reports ranging from 50 to 30 meteors per hour.
I was at this location from just before sunset until dawn.
It was clear all night and not very cold
I saw 1 meteorite.
Flood lights on the Murray
I was here at Walkers Flat , South Australia, last night working out a location for a milky way shot. At about 7.30 there was a blaze of high powered floodlights , from a vessel, slowly coming upstream towards me. It turned out to be the 'Proud Mary', a river cruise boat. ( I think )
The cliffs and the trees along the river looked just fantastic all lit up this way. I took several shots of this as the vessel approached and blended them together later.
I then crossed over the river on the ferry and drove to Forster Lookout, a short distance upstream..
There , I shot the milky way shots, when it appeared at roughly this angle to the river
I took 1 x 120 sec and 2 x 90 second tracked shots and stacked them in Sequator.
This night was also be the peak of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower with reports ranging from 50 to 30 meteors per hour.
I was at this location from just before sunset until dawn.
It was clear all night and not very cold
I saw 1 meteorite.