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Light Painting at Clarendon House 15th August 2015

A Day at The Dish

Welcome to the Dish!

The Dish with the original receiving cabin in the foreground to the right.

The Dish from the Garden.

Driving in to the Dish from the road at 300mm maximum zoom.

 The Dish and the Moon (mid to top left).

 Driving out from the Dish from the road at 300mm maximum zoom.

Back to the The Dish at Night with some star trails even though cloudy!

Two Nights at Ororal Valley Tracking Station

 Scott light painting his name.  Note to Self...paint letters back to front to see right way round with camera!  Taken at Ororal Valley Campsite.

 Scott whirling red headlight torch on the end of a scarf taken at Ororal Valley Campsite.

 The Emu in the Southern Sky with red light painted onto branches in the foreground  taken at Ororal Valley Campsite.

 Antares and surrounding nebulosity taken at Ororal Valley Campsite.

 Michael(Myself), Scott and Emiel at the 9 Metre Antenna Pad.

 Scott and the Magellanic Clouds at the Operations Building.

 15 Minute Star Trails at the Operations Building.

 Star Trails and Light Painting at the Minitrack Control Building.

Minitrack Antenna Pad with Constellation Orion.

Wide Field Shots Sagittarius and Scorpius

Image contains the Sagittarius Star Cloud, the Lagoon Nebula and the Ptolemy Cluster

This image features the red giant star Antares and surrounding nebulosity

Images consists of 5 30 second shots taken with a Canon 760D and a TS-E 90mm Lens.  Tracking via Vixen Polaire and processing in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Wide Field of Constellation Carina including Eta Carina Nebula

First version with emphasis on the nebula in the centre

Second version with more emphasis on the surrounding star cloud

Image consists of 5 30 second shots taken with a Canon 760D and a 90mm Lens.  Tracking via Vixen Polaire and processing in Nebulosity and Photoshop.

Emu Rising from Blackstone Heights

30 second exposure, 3200iso, Canon 760D, Tokina WA Lens F2.8

NGC3352 Another open star cluster in Carina

Image in 5 X 2 minute frames stacked and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop.  Camera in a modified Canon 450D with a Skywatcher ED80.

Eta Carina Nebula and NGC3293

Images taken here, first of the Eta Carina at a very approximate 9000 light years, Then with Eta Carina just off centre to include a smaller open star cluster, NGC3293, a very approximate 8400 light years and then the last picture with NGC3293 central just in proximity to a peripheral part of the Eta Carina Nebula.  Each image comprises 5 X 2min raw frames, stacked and processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop and taken with a modified Canon 450D and Skywatcher ED80 telescope.

Jupiter through (John Henry's) 16 Inch Meade LX200 and my Imaging Source DBK21

Dome image by Peter Sayers (See Astro Pete on Facebook for more)

Running Chicken 15th March 2015

SWED80, Modified Canon 450D, 5X5min Exp, Stacked and Stretched in Nebulosity, Levels and Curves in Photoshop.

Jupiter

Taken 15th March 2015  

180mm SW Maksutov and Imaging Source CCD Camera

Rodway Ranges at Mount Field National Park 21st February 2015

5 x 1 Min frames stacked and processed in Nebulosity.  Canon 1100D and Vixen Polaire.

Pineapple  Grass and other vegetation.

Tarn Shelf looking north.

White flowering shrub.

Rockscape