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"From the Core to Antares"
A popular composition of widefield imaging is the this "slice" from the Milkyway core to Antares. I've differed slightly by capturing a bit more of the surrounding region. From the core on the left the recognisable Lagoon and Trifid nebulas can be seen, as well as the Omega and Eaglo nebulas higher up. On the right hand side is the multi-coloured comet that is the Antares / Rho Ophicuhi region. A little above is the Blue Horsehead nebula and then the Kobold nebula peaks in at the top of the image. Can you spot the comet C/2018 N1 NEOWISE discovered only last month in July?
This multi-panel mosaic was taken on 12/13 August 2018 from Regans Ford in Western Australia. A modified Canon EOS6d was used through a Canon 85mm f1.2 lens, mounted on a guided Skywatcher NEQ6 mount. Processing in Pixinsight, and post-processing with PS-CC.
Details as follows:
| 2018-08-13 | Near Regan's Ford, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 85 f1.2 lens | @f/4.0 | UV/IR cut-filter | ISO1600 | 3x30s, 3x60s, 3x120s, 3x240s, 3x480s | 4 x panels | NEQ6 mount | Synguider |
Enjoy,
Will Vrbasso.
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#astrophotography #stars #nebula #antares #ophiuchi #milkyway #core #galaxy #widefield #photography #astronomy #stellaraustralis #vrbasso
A popular composition of widefield imaging is the this "slice" from the Milkyway core to Antares. I've differed slightly by capturing a bit more of the surrounding region. From the core on the left the recognisable Lagoon and Trifid nebulas can be seen, as well as the Omega and Eaglo nebulas higher up. On the right hand side is the multi-coloured comet that is the Antares / Rho Ophicuhi region. A little above is the Blue Horsehead nebula and then the Kobold nebula peaks in at the top of the image. Can you spot the comet C/2018 N1 NEOWISE discovered only last month in July?
This multi-panel mosaic was taken on 12/13 August 2018 from Regans Ford in Western Australia. A modified Canon EOS6d was used through a Canon 85mm f1.2 lens, mounted on a guided Skywatcher NEQ6 mount. Processing in Pixinsight, and post-processing with PS-CC.
Details as follows:
| 2018-08-13 | Near Regan's Ford, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 85 f1.2 lens | @f/4.0 | UV/IR cut-filter | ISO1600 | 3x30s, 3x60s, 3x120s, 3x240s, 3x480s | 4 x panels | NEQ6 mount | Synguider |
Enjoy,
Will Vrbasso.
- Web: www.stellaraustralis.com
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/stellaraustralis/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wvrbasso/
#astrophotography #stars #nebula #antares #ophiuchi #milkyway #core #galaxy #widefield #photography #astronomy #stellaraustralis #vrbasso
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"Opal Skies"
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The desolate landscape of Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia lies silent under brillant skies washed with the colours of opal. Looking towards the outer rim of the galaxy, one can behold the fantastic array of nebulas, supernova renmants, clusters, and satellite galaxies. And amongst it all, the faint ripples of air glow add green and orange to the red of the nebulas and the deep blues of the night sky.
Of course, most of these colours are not apparent to the naked eye. Only the integrating sensor of a camera and some skill at post-processing can bring out these subtle shades and hues. Despite this, when one walks along upon the dry salt lake and looks up to stare into the heavens, one cannot but feel a sense of peace, wonder, and something else that evades description.
I used an Skywatcher StarAdventurer sky tracking mount to take this massive 49 panel mosaic. A Canon EOS6d (modified) was used through a Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens stopped down to f/3.2. All camera and lens settings were kept the same for all panels, and all shots were taken one immediately after the other. The tracking mount was used for the sky and turned off for the foreground panels. Stitching in PTGui, colour balance, noise reduction, saturation and some brightness / contrast adjustment in Photoshop. Details below.
Details as follows:
| 2018-12-08 | Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 50 f1.2 lens | @f/3.2 | UV/IR cut-filter | ISO1600 | 25s | 49 x panels | Skywatcher StarAdventurer mount |
Enjoy,
Will Vrbasso.
#astrophotography #nightscape #stars #nebula #yenyening #lake #milkyway #galaxy #widefield #photography #astronomy #stellaraustralis #vrbasso #australia
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The desolate landscape of Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia lies silent under brillant skies washed with the colours of opal. Looking towards the outer rim of the galaxy, one can behold the fantastic array of nebulas, supernova renmants, clusters, and satellite galaxies. And amongst it all, the faint ripples of air glow add green and orange to the red of the nebulas and the deep blues of the night sky.
Of course, most of these colours are not apparent to the naked eye. Only the integrating sensor of a camera and some skill at post-processing can bring out these subtle shades and hues. Despite this, when one walks along upon the dry salt lake and looks up to stare into the heavens, one cannot but feel a sense of peace, wonder, and something else that evades description.
I used an Skywatcher StarAdventurer sky tracking mount to take this massive 49 panel mosaic. A Canon EOS6d (modified) was used through a Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens stopped down to f/3.2. All camera and lens settings were kept the same for all panels, and all shots were taken one immediately after the other. The tracking mount was used for the sky and turned off for the foreground panels. Stitching in PTGui, colour balance, noise reduction, saturation and some brightness / contrast adjustment in Photoshop. Details below.
Details as follows:
| 2018-12-08 | Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 50 f1.2 lens | @f/3.2 | UV/IR cut-filter | ISO1600 | 25s | 49 x panels | Skywatcher StarAdventurer mount |
Enjoy,
Will Vrbasso.
#astrophotography #nightscape #stars #nebula #yenyening #lake #milkyway #galaxy #widefield #photography #astronomy #stellaraustralis #vrbasso #australia
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Si spengono le luci e si accendono... gli oculari 😁
La novità di inizio 2018 Baader Planetarium si chiama serie Morpheus. È composta da 6 focali (sì è vero 😒 in foto ne manca uno che è già sparito 😅) tutte a 76 gradi di campo.
Oltre ad essere molto "cool" grazie all'effetto luminescente 😍 sono anche molto funzionali. Dispongono in fatti di un filetto per l'innesto di camere digitali per la foto in proiezione oculare, fondina per il trasporto alla cintura, compatibilità con tutti i portaoculari, barilotto antiscivolo e, cosa più importante, un'ottima resa ottica.
Tutte le info dettagliate sulla serie le potete trovare qui:
https://www.skypoint.it/it/ricerca?tag=morpheus
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#DeepSky #Astronomy #Eyepiece #Baader #Morpheus #Widefield
La novità di inizio 2018 Baader Planetarium si chiama serie Morpheus. È composta da 6 focali (sì è vero 😒 in foto ne manca uno che è già sparito 😅) tutte a 76 gradi di campo.
Oltre ad essere molto "cool" grazie all'effetto luminescente 😍 sono anche molto funzionali. Dispongono in fatti di un filetto per l'innesto di camere digitali per la foto in proiezione oculare, fondina per il trasporto alla cintura, compatibilità con tutti i portaoculari, barilotto antiscivolo e, cosa più importante, un'ottima resa ottica.
Tutte le info dettagliate sulla serie le potete trovare qui:
https://www.skypoint.it/it/ricerca?tag=morpheus
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#DeepSky #Astronomy #Eyepiece #Baader #Morpheus #Widefield
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Under a Southern Winter Sky
Up here in the Flinders Ranges the winter night sky is so dark that even a moonlit landscape can't wash away the spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Even the distant galaxies LMC and SMC can clearly be seen just above the ridge-top to the left of the scene as fuzzy cottontball blobs.
All this captured in a simple single 60 second image just makes me want to go back for more.
Photo: Robert Rath, 'Under a Southern Winter Sky' 60s f/2.8 ISO1600 15mm
#milkyway #galaxy #astronomy #wonder #heavens #smc #lmc #night #sky #flindersranges #widefield #skyscape #stars #moonlight l#landscape #moonlit
Up here in the Flinders Ranges the winter night sky is so dark that even a moonlit landscape can't wash away the spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Even the distant galaxies LMC and SMC can clearly be seen just above the ridge-top to the left of the scene as fuzzy cottontball blobs.
All this captured in a simple single 60 second image just makes me want to go back for more.
Photo: Robert Rath, 'Under a Southern Winter Sky' 60s f/2.8 ISO1600 15mm
#milkyway #galaxy #astronomy #wonder #heavens #smc #lmc #night #sky #flindersranges #widefield #skyscape #stars #moonlight l#landscape #moonlit
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Product launch: Molecular Devices launches ImageXpress Micro XLS System.
Able to image and acquire >50,000 wells a day with our new high content imaging system
#widefield #cells #modular #imaging #highcontentscreening
Able to image and acquire >50,000 wells a day with our new high content imaging system
#widefield #cells #modular #imaging #highcontentscreening
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The Milky Way
By far the most amazing visual spectacle in the night sky is our very own Milky Way Galaxy. To really appreciate it though you need to be far away from populated regions so that city lights do not mask out the detail.
This weekend I had the good fortune to spend time with my family and friends in the Flinders Ranges, a five hour drive from home. Aside from the rugged beauty of this place the night sky and the Milky Way Galaxy was just amazing.
While working on this image I noticed two smudges in the top left corner I originally thought were clouds. As it turns out they are clouds, the Large Magellanic Cloud (around 163,000 light years distant) is far left while the Small Magellanic Cloud (around 200,000 light years distant) is near the top. Another curious object, the bright star immediately to the left of the bottom of the Large Magellanic Cloud is not a star at all. It is the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most interesting visible non-stellar objects and and probably the most active source of new star formation in our local group of galaxies.
Next time you are out camping or venturing into some remote parts, remember to look up into the night sky and experience the wonder of it.
Photo: Robert Rath, 'The Milky Way' 193s f/2.8 ISO1600 15mm
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#milkyway #galaxy #astronomy #wonder #heavens #smc #lmc #tarantulanebula #night #sky #flindersranges #widefield #skyscape #nebula #stars
By far the most amazing visual spectacle in the night sky is our very own Milky Way Galaxy. To really appreciate it though you need to be far away from populated regions so that city lights do not mask out the detail.
This weekend I had the good fortune to spend time with my family and friends in the Flinders Ranges, a five hour drive from home. Aside from the rugged beauty of this place the night sky and the Milky Way Galaxy was just amazing.
While working on this image I noticed two smudges in the top left corner I originally thought were clouds. As it turns out they are clouds, the Large Magellanic Cloud (around 163,000 light years distant) is far left while the Small Magellanic Cloud (around 200,000 light years distant) is near the top. Another curious object, the bright star immediately to the left of the bottom of the Large Magellanic Cloud is not a star at all. It is the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most interesting visible non-stellar objects and and probably the most active source of new star formation in our local group of galaxies.
Next time you are out camping or venturing into some remote parts, remember to look up into the night sky and experience the wonder of it.
Photo: Robert Rath, 'The Milky Way' 193s f/2.8 ISO1600 15mm
... more at http://wetshutter.com
#milkyway #galaxy #astronomy #wonder #heavens #smc #lmc #tarantulanebula #night #sky #flindersranges #widefield #skyscape #nebula #stars
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Hey, good people, I just wanted to let you know that one of my photos ("Dust lanes") was featured on +Royce Bair's blog: http://intothenightphoto.blogspot.com/2014/08/into-night-with-ben-coffman.html.
There's also a short interview in there, if you're interested in that sort of thing. Royce does some fantastic night photography, and I'm honored that he was interested in my work.
Take care!
+#WayWednesday curated by +Peter Carroll +Rob Tilley #WayWednesday
+WideOpenWednesday curated by +Shawn Clover #WideOpenWednesday
#milkyway #milkywayphotography #widefield
There's also a short interview in there, if you're interested in that sort of thing. Royce does some fantastic night photography, and I'm honored that he was interested in my work.
Take care!
+#WayWednesday curated by +Peter Carroll +Rob Tilley #WayWednesday
+WideOpenWednesday curated by +Shawn Clover #WideOpenWednesday
#milkyway #milkywayphotography #widefield
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Original Work "Orion Hunts Beyond Far Horizon"
Taken from near Cervantes, Western Australia, the Orion constellation now sets on western horzion early at night. Taken with a 50mm lens, the constellation fits nicely in its field of view, if somewhat over exposed. Clearly visible is the Orion nebula, but if you zoom up on the belt (the three stars making a near vertical line in the centre) one can just see the orange smudge of the flame nebula, and just next to it the even fainter red veil of the dark horsehead nebula (not realy visible). If one really knows what to look for, there is even the faintest hint of Barnard's Loop, a red nebula that arcs in this photo over the entire constellation.
The image is a composite of two shots, the first at ISO2500 for 57sec at f1.8 for the sky, and the second at ISO3200 for 30sec at f2 (yeh - I got the ISO reversed, silly me).
Enjoy, Will.
For those interested in the image detail, read as follows:
DATE / TIME: 2015-04-17
LOCATION: Dunes near Cervantes, Western Australia
SCOPE: Canon 50mm F1.8
OPTICAL ATTACHMENTS: None
MOUNT: tracking mount head on standard tripod
CAMERA: EOS6D unmodded
EXPOSURE: ISO3200 @ 30sec (foreground), and 1 x ISO2500 @ 57sec (sky / background)
PROCESSING: Exposures combined and processed in Photoshop
#orion #constellation #stars #nebula #widefield #longexposure #nightphotography #astrophotography #night #australia #canon
Taken from near Cervantes, Western Australia, the Orion constellation now sets on western horzion early at night. Taken with a 50mm lens, the constellation fits nicely in its field of view, if somewhat over exposed. Clearly visible is the Orion nebula, but if you zoom up on the belt (the three stars making a near vertical line in the centre) one can just see the orange smudge of the flame nebula, and just next to it the even fainter red veil of the dark horsehead nebula (not realy visible). If one really knows what to look for, there is even the faintest hint of Barnard's Loop, a red nebula that arcs in this photo over the entire constellation.
The image is a composite of two shots, the first at ISO2500 for 57sec at f1.8 for the sky, and the second at ISO3200 for 30sec at f2 (yeh - I got the ISO reversed, silly me).
Enjoy, Will.
For those interested in the image detail, read as follows:
DATE / TIME: 2015-04-17
LOCATION: Dunes near Cervantes, Western Australia
SCOPE: Canon 50mm F1.8
OPTICAL ATTACHMENTS: None
MOUNT: tracking mount head on standard tripod
CAMERA: EOS6D unmodded
EXPOSURE: ISO3200 @ 30sec (foreground), and 1 x ISO2500 @ 57sec (sky / background)
PROCESSING: Exposures combined and processed in Photoshop
#orion #constellation #stars #nebula #widefield #longexposure #nightphotography #astrophotography #night #australia #canon
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Mars. Because Mars. That's why. #nightphotography #astrophotography #ig_nightphotography #ig_astrophotography #mars #planet #nightpixels #widefield #conquer_ca #ignorcal #westcoast_exposures #illgrammers #igshotz #weownthenight #weownthenight_ig #weownthenight_ca #california #visitcalifornia #visitcentralvalley #aphotoaday_ronindusette #rsa_main #royalsnappingartists #nikon
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Silhouette at White Mesa Arch, by Wayne Pinkston.
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#sky #night #silhouette #stars #arch #desert #cosmos #wilderness #astrophotography #wideangle #nightsky #milkyway #galaxy #nightphotography #nightscape #nightlandscape #starrynight #landscapeastrophotography #starscape #widefield #astrophotography #theheavens #stonearch
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#sky #night #silhouette #stars #arch #desert #cosmos #wilderness #astrophotography #wideangle #nightsky #milkyway #galaxy #nightphotography #nightscape #nightlandscape #starrynight #landscapeastrophotography #starscape #widefield #astrophotography #theheavens #stonearch
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