2. Night Sky

Sky at Night

Moon, planets, stars, meteors, star trails, International Space Station (ISS). A selection from my night sky gallery. A really great resource for everything Stars & Space I use this great site http://www.meteorwatch.org
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    Oct 01/02 2011 startrail. The autumnal heatwave & clear skies continues, although the frontal system is approaching as can be seen looking towards the west in this shot . Used the trees to compose and lead you into the startrail. This one was a mere 7hrs worth of continuous shooting :-) Captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye. 15s exposure time, F3.5 and ISO 500. Foreground and trees lit with flash bursts. Unfortunately I had a tripod wobble moment partly through the shoot which resulted in loss of the concentric trails (more visible nearer Polaris).
    Oct 01 2011 ISS pass from 0547hrs flyby. Approx dozen exposures combined & captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye.
    Sept 29/30 2011 startrail. This wonderful image was featured in the Leicester Mercury on Wed 5th October - http://bit.ly/nheQlM The autumnal heatwave & clear skies continues. A nice combination of a 9hr startrail set against the Gilmorton wind farm with the 0510 hrs ISS flyby just above the turbine. This is how I setup the shot. Olympus E5 with 8mm fisheye on tripod overlooking the wind farm. Camera M mode with shutter speed set at 15s and aperture wide open at F3.5. Using a remote trigger I set the camera to shoot continuous all night from 2030hrs until 0530hrs in the morning. This included for the 0510hrs ISS flyby. I woke early & retrieved camera (yawn yawn). Once back home I imported the 2000 images into Mac and stacked with StarStax software. Removed a few plane trails and the final composite is what you see :-)