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Fun with MF images 2024

AlanS

AlanS

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Thank's both Peter and Rob. I take your point Rob and I do like the crop you presented. I don't tend to overthink these things too much but my intention was to anchor the image with the dark mass and then be drawn to the tip of the white pole at the end of the wall. Interesting how we read pics through our own lens? I also thought about removing the beach (fine art style?) to remove the distraction but decided against it, might revisit that.
 
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John Leathwick

Well-known member
Shot just after astronomical dark on the Kaikoura Peninsula (NZ) as the Milky Way rose in the
eastern sky - Scorpio just visible above the horizon. Foreground was a single shot just before
complete darkness, combined with six 4-minute exposures of the sky, camera mounted on a
an IOptron tracker. This was the first night sky image I've tried with a newly acquired Fuji GFX
100s, and it acquits itself well - GF 23mm at F/5.6.

John

Milky Way at Kaikoura.jpg
 
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Doppler9000

Active member
John Leathwick said:
Shot just after astronomical dark on the Kaikoura Peninsula (NZ) as the Milky Way rose in the
eastern sky - Scorpio just visible above the horizon. Foreground was a single shot just before
complete darkness, combined with six 4-minute exposures of the sky, camera mounted on a
an IOptron tracker. This was the first night sky image I've tried with a newly acquired Fuji GFX
100s, and it acquits itself well - GF 23mm at F/5.6.

John

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Nicely done!
 
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anwarp

Well-known member
John Leathwick said:
Shot just after astronomical dark on the Kaikoura Peninsula (NZ) as the Milky Way rose in the
eastern sky - Scorpio just visible above the horizon. Foreground was a single shot just before
complete darkness, combined with six 4-minute exposures of the sky, camera mounted on a
an IOptron tracker. This was the first night sky image I've tried with a newly acquired Fuji GFX
100s, and it acquits itself well - GF 23mm at F/5.6.

John

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You guys down under, do see the sky upside down!
On a more serious note - fabulous image!
 
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4x5Australian

Well-known member
John Leathwick said:
Shot just after astronomical dark on the Kaikoura Peninsula (NZ) as the Milky Way rose in the
eastern sky - Scorpio just visible above the horizon. Foreground was a single shot just before
complete darkness, combined with six 4-minute exposures of the sky, camera mounted on a
an IOptron tracker. This was the first night sky image I've tried with a newly acquired Fuji GFX
100s, and it acquits itself well - GF 23mm at F/5.6.

John
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John, your wonderful image invites close examination. Well done!

Northern hemisphere viewers in particular might relish the unusual prominence of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the bright fuzzy star-like object left of the Milky Way near the top of the image. Omega Centauri is recognised as the brightest and most massive globular cluster known in the Milky Way galaxy.
Globular clusters inhabit the outer halo of galaxies and are enigmatic.
Omega Centauri - Wikipedia
Globular cluster - Wikipedia

Rod
 
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John Leathwick

Well-known member
4x5Australian said:
John, your wonderful image invites close examination. Well done!

Northern hemisphere viewers in particular might relish the unusual prominence of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the bright fuzzy star-like object left of the Milky Way near the top of the image. Omega Centauri is recognised as the brightest and most massive globular cluster known in the Milky Way galaxy.
Globular clusters inhabit the outer halo of galaxies and are enigmatic.
Omega Centauri - Wikipedia
Globular cluster - Wikipedia

Rod
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Thanks Rod for chiming in - and let me introduce Omega Centauri along with its nearby galaxy Centaurus A.
This was taken on a dark night outside my back door with a GFX 50SII and GF250 mounted on a more functional
tracker, a Fornax Lightrack II.

Edit - I should have also offered a prize to any northern hemisphere dweller who can identify the star feature that
marks the southern celestial pole. You northerners don't know how lucky you are having your Pole Star with which
to align a tracker. Finding the southern hemisphere equivalent is more like pin the tail on the (invisible) donkey, but
it is visible in my original image...

John

OmegaCentauri.jpg.
 
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MGrayson

MGrayson

Subscriber and Workshop Member
John Leathwick said:
Thanks Rod for chiming in - and let me introduce Omega Centauri along with its nearby galaxy Centaurus A.
This was taken on a dark night outside my back door with a GFX 50SII and GF250 mounted on a more functional
tracker, a Fornax Lightrack II.

Edit - I should have also offered a prize to any northern hemisphere dweller who can identify the star feature that
marks the southern celestial pole. You northerners don't know how lucky you are having your Pole Star with which
to align a tracker. Finding the southern hemisphere equivalent is more like pin the tail on the (invisible) donkey, but
it is visible in my original image...

John

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I would have guessed Southern Cross, but that probably shows my ignorance of all things South. I was in Patagonia once and things in the sky moved the wrong way and I didn't recognize the stars. Very disorienting! And some big honking comet was up there, too. (Early 2007)
 
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SeanThekayaker

Member
John Leathwick said:
Shot just after astronomical dark on the Kaikoura Peninsula (NZ) as the Milky Way rose in the
eastern sky - Scorpio just visible above the horizon. Foreground was a single shot just before
complete darkness, combined with six 4-minute exposures of the sky, camera mounted on a
an IOptron tracker. This was the first night sky image I've tried with a newly acquired Fuji GFX
100s, and it acquits itself well - GF 23mm at F/5.6.

John

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It is an entrancing and inspiring image
 
cunim

cunim

Well-known member
One of the exercises I set myself is to shoot something that lacks interest, but interpret it in such a way that it wants to be looked at. This is a strip of grass, some rocks and few trees located between a road on the left and a gravel parking lot on the right. At the end of the strip is a chain link fence barring entry to a hydro facility. I pass by this little scene on my dog walks and the dog likes to pee on one particular rock.

IQ4, Rm3di, 40HR, tilt

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