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Another look at the lace monitor (Varanus varius).

Another look at the lace monitor (Varanus varius). I was so thrilled to spot this. 🙂

#Varanus #monitor #nature #photography #naturephotography #wildlife #Australia #BebblyBeach

The lace monitor (Varanus varius), also known as t

The lace monitor (Varanus varius), also known as the tree goanna.

#Varanus #monitor #nature #photography #naturephotography #wildlife #Australia #BebblyBeach

Enjoying an early sunrise on the beach. Eastern gr

Enjoying an early sunrise on the beach. Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). Taken 9 Feb 2021.

#Kangaroo #Macropus #Marsupial #nature #photography #naturephotography #wildlife #Australia #BebblyBeach #Morning #Ocean

‘Connection’. I was amazed how much difference

‘Connection’. I was amazed how much difference lower levels of light pollution can make, being used to the bortle 6-7 city lights. Photographed 2021-04-20 under the bortle 4 skies of #Katoomba in the #BlueMountains #Australia. It only took me one 10s frame at ISO 3200 and f3.5 to get enough data for this. Edits done in Darktable to bring out the features of our beautiful galaxy.
📷 Camera: Nikon D3500
🔎 Lens: AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED VR II.
🌠 Guidance: No.
📳 Remote control / intervalometer: Camera Connect & Control app.
💻 Software used for edits: Darktable.

#milkyway #nightsky #nightscape #fantastic_universe #stargazing #stars #universe #photography #astrophotography #space

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae, with the countless

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae, with the countless stars and clouds of our galactic centre in the background.

Decided to process this one a bit further to remove some of the light pollution. Turned out quite nicely I think. 🙂

#Nebulae #milkyway #nightsky #nightscape #fantastic_universe #stargazing #stars #universe #photography #astrophotography #space

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae, with Milky Way in t

The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae, with Milky Way in the background.

I collected the data for this a while back and finally got around to analysing it. Collected 12 Oct 2020 in Canberra, Australia, under bortle 6-7 light polluted skies. You can actually see some of the light pollution haze in the lower part of the image.

4 minutes of data; 8 guided 30s light frames, 15 darks. ISO 400, F2.8.

📷 Camera: Nikon D3500
🔎 Lens: Samyang 135mm F2.0 ED UMC II (Nikon AE).
🌠 Guidance: MoveShootMove rotator.
📳 Remote control / intervalometer: Camera Connect & Control (CCC) app.
💻 Software used: Stellarium, CCC, APP, GIMP (slight colour adjustment).

#Nebulae #milkyway #nightsky #nightscape #fantastic_universe #stargazing #stars #universe #photography #astrophotography #space

Jupiter and Saturn are conjoining. On the 21st the

Jupiter and Saturn are conjoining. On the 21st they will appear to collide from Earth’s perspective, so heads up and clear skies! I took this on the 18th of December 2020. Three moons of Jupiter can be seen (left to right: Europa, Io, Callisto), and one of Saturn (Titan).

Unguided. Settings: f5.6, 1/1.3s, ISO 1600. [Focal Length, Aperture, Shutter speed, Sensitivity]. Frames: 100 x light, 20 x dark, bias, flat & dark flat each. APP used for stacking, cropping, and removing light pollution gradients. Darktable used for curves adjustment, lens correction, denoising, and cropping.

Taken 18 Dec 2020 in Canberra, Australia, under bortle 6-7 light polluted skies.

📷 Camera: Nikon D3500
🔎 Lens: AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED VR II
🌠 Guidance: No
📳 Remote control / intervalometer: Camera Connect & Control (CCC) app.
💻 Software used: Stellarium, CCC, APP, Darktable, GIMP (for labels).

#Jupiter #Saturn #conjunction #galileanmoons #nightsky #nightscape #fantastic_universe #stargazing #stars #universe #photography #astrophotography #space

Last light of day made this Eastern grey kangaroo

Last light of day made this Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) look extra fluffy as it was enjoying the meadow. Taken 9 Dec 2020.

#Kangaroo #Macropus #Marsupial #nature #photography #naturephotography #wildlife #MtAinslie #Ainslie #Canberra #Australia

[Swipe!] This widefield of space in the Pavo const

[Swipe!] This widefield of space in the Pavo constellation reveals the depth and age of our universe. There are several galaxies in this picture, the most prominent of which is the NGC 6744 on the left. It is a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way, and it took light 30 million years to travel from that galaxy to my camera sensor.

The Pavo globular cluster (NGC 6752) on the right is much closer to us, in fact it is roughly half-way between us (13,000 ly to us) and our galactic centre (17,000 ly to the centre). This cluster of gravitationally bound stars is 11.78 billion years old, almost as old as the universe itself.

I used the MSM tracker and a 135mm lens on f2, ISO 100, to take 10 x 1min and 28 x 30s exposures, which I stacked using AstroPixelProcessor (APP). The final exposure time totalled 24 minutes. I also used the APP software to control light pollution, along with using a light pollution filter on the lens.

Edits: APP - Initial stretch, calibrated star colours. Darktable - Curves, highlights, shadows adjustments, noise reduction, lens correction. GIMP - For the close-up of the NGC 6744 I used GIMP to brighten up the galaxy so that it can be seen a bit better, while also reducing red noise in the background.

Taken 2 Nob 2020 in Canberra, Australia, under bortle 6-7 light polluted skies.

📷 Camera: Nikon D3500
🔎 Lens: Samyang 135mm F2.0 ED UMC II.
🌠 Guidance: MSM tracker.
📳 Remote control / intervalometer: Camera Connect & Control (CCC).
💻 Software used: Stellarium, CCC, APP, Darktable, GIMP.

#NGC6744 #NGC6752 #galaxy #galaxies #starcluster #globularcluster #nightsky #nightscape #fantastic_universe #stargazing #stars #universe #photography #astrophotography #space

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) was doing its thing.

#echidna #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography

Love is on the air. Rainbow lorikeets (Trichogloss

Love is on the air. Rainbow lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus).

#lorikeet #aww #rainbowlorikeet #Nature #Photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdphotographyaustralia #wildlife #JervisBay #Australia

The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus).

The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus).

#JervisBay #lorikeet #rainbowlorikeet #Nature #Photography #naturephotography #wildlife

6 planets and 1 dwarf planet all photographed duri

6 planets and 1 dwarf planet all photographed during one night. I spent 10 hours by the lake doing this. It was my first time seeing the last three planets. I also tried to image Pluto, but it was too dim to be seen.

Also visible are Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moons (from bottom-left to top-right): Callisto, Io and Ganymede.

Each photo was tracked and several photos were stacked using Astro Pixel Processor to create each final image. I did noise reduction to some of the images in Darktable and compiled the final image in GIMP.

Gear: Samyang 135mm lens on a Nikon body which was controlled using the Camera Connect and Control app on my phone, and tracked with a MoveShootMove rotator.

Taken 1 October 2020.

#Mercury #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Neptune #Uranus and #Ceres
#galileanmoons #Titan #Moon #Space #Astronomy #photography #astrophotography #space #astropics #Canberra #Australia

‘Contrast’. Two of the largest birds I commonl

‘Contrast’. Two of the largest birds I commonly encounter in Canberra were hanging out in the same treetop at the Tidbinbilla nature reserve. Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) and Australian Raven (Corvus coronoides). Taken 3 July 2020.

#Cockatoo #Raven #nature #photography #naturephotography #Tidbinbilla #Australia

The moons of Jupiter and a meteor. Taken 18 Augus

The moons of Jupiter and a meteor.

Taken 18 August 2020. Frames: 1, unguided. Lens: Samyang 135mm F2.0 ED UMC II (Nikon AE). Settings: f2, 1.6s, ISO 1600. [Focal Length, Aperture, Shutter speed, Sensitivity]. Cropped, with slight adjustments for exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and noise.

#galileanmoons #GalileoGalilei #Jupiter #Moon #Space #History #Astronomy #photography
#astrophotography #space #Canberra #Australia

‘Galilean moons’. Story time: On 7 January 161

‘Galilean moons’. Story time: On 7 January 1610, the moons of Jupiter changed the way humanity perceived the universe.

That is when Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope at Jupiter and noted "three fixed stars, totally invisible by their smallness", all close to Jupiter, and lying on a straight line through it.

After some additional observations, on 10 January, Galileo noticed that one of them had disappeared, which he attributed to its being hidden behind Jupiter. Within a few days he concluded that they were orbiting Jupiter.

This meant that everything in the universe did not orbit the Earth or the Sun after all, which conflicted with the principles of Aristotelian cosmology and the prevailing religious dogma of the time. We were not at the centre of everything.

Jupiter has 79 known moons. In this photo we can observe the four largest, called the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto (named in the second photo).

The lens Galileo used to make his observations is housed at The Museo Galileo in Florence. I visited the museum in 2015 and took a photo of the framed lens (see the last picture). Knowing the historical significance of Galileo’s findings, seeing the lens in person was a deeply moving experience for me.

And so was taking these photos. This was the first time I saw the moons of Jupiter. I didn’t plan for it, I just tested my new lens by pointing it at Jupiter, which was just visible between the clouds.

For these reasons, this simple photo will forever be one of my personal favourites.

Info sources: Wikipedia.org & History.amazingspace.org

Taken 18 August 2020 – 135mm, f2, 1/2s, ISO 800. [Focal Length, Aperture, Shutter speed, Sensitivity]
– Frames: 1, unguided – Lens: Samyang 135mm F2.0 ED UMC II (Nikon AE).

#galileanmoons #GalileoGalilei #Jupiter #Moon #Space #History #Astronomy #photography #astrophotography #space #Canberra #Australia

Here’s what makes this photo quite special: 1)

Here’s what makes this photo quite special:
1) That bright streak is the International Space Station! It flies at an average altitude of 400
kilometres (248 miles) above Earth, circling the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 28,000
km/h (17,500 mph). There are currently (only) three people on board: Commander Chris Cassidy
(@astro_seal), Anatoli Ivanishin (@anatoli_ivanishin), and Ivan Vagner (@ivan_mks63).

2) Shortly after this shot, the ISS faded from view as it went to the Earth’s shadow. You can see it
fading in the second photo.

3) There is actually also a meteor in the top right corner of the first photo (swipe right to the third image see a close up of it).

4) This was only my second time catching the ISS and my first photo of it!
A few moments later I also managed to accidentally image Jupiter’s moons! Coming soon!

Taken 18 August 2020 – 135mm, f4, 3s, ISO 1600. [Focal Length, Aperture, Shutter speed, Sensitivity]
– Frames: 1, unguided – Lens: Samyang 135mm F2.0 ED UMC II (Nikon AE).

#InternationalSpaceStation #ISS #meteor #meteoroid #shootingstar #photography
#astrophotography #space #Canberra #Australia

A possum under a full moon …or over the moon? 🤔 Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).

#Possum #Brushtail #Trichosurus #Marsupial
#Nature #Photography #naturephotography #wildlife #moon #fullmoon
#Canberra #Australia

A curious *bandicoot* came to ask for treats in a

A curious *bandicoot* came to ask for treats in a national park picnic area. The snout felt like a finger as it sniffed my leg. It hopped around in a kangaroo kind of way, or maybe more like a bunny. The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus).

--Correction-- I found out that this is infact not a potoroo, but a bandicoot!

#bandicoot #isoodon #tidbinbilla #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography #Australia

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