Wheatbelt Wanderings
Today I enjoyed a photography excursion to the wheatbelt, driving through Northam, Goomalling and Todyay. Trips like this have been relatively rare in the last year or two, with my spare time spent more on astrophotography or travelling for other reasons. It's fun to focus on terrestrial photography a little…
Goldy Geordie
I seem to be on a "golden sunset" theme at the moment! This time, Geordie Bay on Rottnest Island. It didn't take any thinking to compose this one, the writing was "on the wall" as soon as I parked my bike and looked up. PS the photo is straight from…
Orion and Jupiter setting among cloud
You could be forgiven for thinking, looking at a website like this, that whenever an astronomer sticks their camera outside they see stars and galaxies. Well, not the case! Most inconveniently, it is often cloud! At the ASWA Astro Camp on the weekend just gone, the weather didn't play particularly…
Galaxies Abound
Continuing with the theme of survey images from my photography of NGC objects, the above photograph shows a selection of twelve galaxies. I have been spoilt for choice lately, with a wide selection of spectacular galaxies imaged. All are 5 x 180s exposures (sum combine) using Meade 12" SCT @…
Some nice galaxies and other NGC objects
I've been really enjoying getting back in to some NGC and in particular galaxy photography lately. I have some fresh head-space following a chaotic few months, and a fresh goal to photograph objects for. Here is a small selection I posted on my facebook page recently.
Aurora Australis from Perth, WA – 20th February 2014
Aurora Australis from Perth Western Australia, so faint it wasn't visible out in the field visually or distinguishable on the camera, rather only evident as moving pillars of pink flicking between frames on the PC at home. The Aurora Australis occured between 8:15pm and 9pm on the 14th February. The…