Night 2015 - IMG_4141
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"A Narrow Slice of Wonder and Loneliness"
Travelling back from a night photography session at Nambung national park earlier this month, I stopped off at my favorite dunes as there was little wind to kick up sand and I thought it would be a great opportunity.
A mosaic of 8 shots with an 85mm f1.2 prime lens of the center of the galaxy looming above the Dunes near Cervantes in Western Australia. There are many pink spots of nebulae, and star clusters, that I won't bore people by trying to name them all - I might follow up with another post with this photo with names superimposed, if some are interested. Otherwise, I love this part of year / galaxy - its bright and easy to photograph (but hard to perfect), and has a nice contrast of light and dark. I took the photos on top of a high dune, looking east across the expanse so a number of dunes are visible in the foreground. Unfortunately, they are a bit too far to light up with a torch, so they are illuminated by star light alone. The bright greenish light on the horizon is from a distant town.
The view is unfortunately a bit narrow, a combination of it requiring quite a few shots to get the foreground and galaxy in the same slice, but also being on a tracking mount where sometimes I have to put the camera at a slight angle resulting in a "vertical" series of shots that are actually a bit slanted, thereby cropping results in more narrowing. The image is 4319 x 13934 pixels, so you can zoom in a fair bit to view the detail - if Google lets you.
An apology to purists, I did some "patch-up" work on a thin sliver at the top right, otherwise I'd have had to crop this image narrower even more.
| 2015-05-22 | Dunes near Cervantes, Western Australia | EOS6D | 85mm | f/3.5 | iOptron mount | ISO3200 | 30sec | 8 x panels |
Travelling back from a night photography session at Nambung national park earlier this month, I stopped off at my favorite dunes as there was little wind to kick up sand and I thought it would be a great opportunity.
A mosaic of 8 shots with an 85mm f1.2 prime lens of the center of the galaxy looming above the Dunes near Cervantes in Western Australia. There are many pink spots of nebulae, and star clusters, that I won't bore people by trying to name them all - I might follow up with another post with this photo with names superimposed, if some are interested. Otherwise, I love this part of year / galaxy - its bright and easy to photograph (but hard to perfect), and has a nice contrast of light and dark. I took the photos on top of a high dune, looking east across the expanse so a number of dunes are visible in the foreground. Unfortunately, they are a bit too far to light up with a torch, so they are illuminated by star light alone. The bright greenish light on the horizon is from a distant town.
The view is unfortunately a bit narrow, a combination of it requiring quite a few shots to get the foreground and galaxy in the same slice, but also being on a tracking mount where sometimes I have to put the camera at a slight angle resulting in a "vertical" series of shots that are actually a bit slanted, thereby cropping results in more narrowing. The image is 4319 x 13934 pixels, so you can zoom in a fair bit to view the detail - if Google lets you.
An apology to purists, I did some "patch-up" work on a thin sliver at the top right, otherwise I'd have had to crop this image narrower even more.
| 2015-05-22 | Dunes near Cervantes, Western Australia | EOS6D | 85mm | f/3.5 | iOptron mount | ISO3200 | 30sec | 8 x panels |
