2. Night Sky

Sky at Night

Look into the night sky and you look back in time. The sky at night is a vastness beyond comprehension, full of celestial objects like galaxies, stars, planets and the Moon. Gaze into a clear night sky and you get drawn into another world, a world as it was in the past. In this collection I am sharing my favourite night sky images and collections. All have been photographed in a natural environment and are real images. Many of my images tell a story, whether the subject matter or process of composition.
All photos captured with OM System.
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    Star trail
    StarTrail 19 Jan 2014, Leicestershire, UK. A very narrow clear sky window in a very unsettled (and cloudy) winter thus far in the UK. Captured with Olympus OM-D E-M5. Leicester pollution clearly visible bottom left (orange glow). Thin high level clouds stated to roll in towards the end of this 3 hour capture, resulting in the orange linear streaks. How did I capture it? - Camera on tripod F4, ISO 400, 15s. Manual focus set to infinity I framed the tree ensuring polaris (north star) around which all other stars spin was located just to the left of tree. The first shot was captured/exposed through the lcd screen and then using the remote cable (set to lock) and turning off lcd (maximise battery) I depressed shutter. This allowed the camera to shoot continuous for three hours. With a bit of flash work I lit the tree and stood in front of the camera in differing locations to create the ghostly selfie :-) To complete the process I transferred all images (High res JPEG) to MAC and imported/stacked in StarStax software. Plane trails removed using Pixelmator software.
    18/19th Feb 2012. Mesmerising startrail from a very clear night in sth Leics. Targeting the celestial north pole star (polaris) via an apex from a building and using a 12mm focal length (12-6mm SWD) resulted in this wonderful spinner. Over 9hrs of earths rotation shown visibly through the stars spinning. Captured with Olympus E5 15s exposures shot continuous all night and kept from freezing over with dew/heat shield. Over 2000 images imported to StarStax which produced this final composite. Mesmerising :-)