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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    Pointing to Polaris
    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.
    Christmas Eve ISS 24 Dec 2013. The International Space Station (ISS) flies over East Midlands (1759hrs flyby). A very bright flyby over the Swinford wind farm, East Mids. How did I capture this? - Camera (Olympus E-M1) with fisheye lens (Oly 8mm) set on tripod. I located the camera in a field underneath a huge turbine (Boy it was cold/windy). Setting camera in manual mode, f3.5, ISO 320 & 10s exposure time & using remote cable to shoot continuous for approx a dozen or so shots. The turbine was painted with a torch and foreground field with a few flash bursts. Once complete I imported all images & stacked in software to produce this composite image.