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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    Quite like this startrail. One of my better ones. It was the brightest full moon of the year, 29 Jan 2010, and I was concerned the brightness would diffuse the stars. It was a very clear and cold night (-2C) although a few clouds did roll in at 0300hrs and which almost blinded the 15s exposures. I started the camera rolling at 2100hrs and exposed 15s continuous frames all night. Images then stacked in software to produce the stunning visuals of earths rotation. Olympus E3, 12-60mm.
    March 29 2012. 0531 hrs ISS pass. Captured with Olympus E5 & 8mm fisheye. Approx half a dozen 15s shots in this final composite. F3.5, ISO 500. Tree and field lit by remote flash.
    Startrail captured on March 29th 2009 in my backyard, Leics. For the first time in a long time clear skies were forecast all night. I set my Olympus E3 camera with 8mm fisheye lens in an adjacent field on tripod. Rigged up the extension lead to provide continuous power and left it running all night. 15s exposures on continuous shoot. Nearly 1500 images stacked and placed on a single layer in Startrails.de software. Probably one of the most impressive duration startrails I have attempted. 6 1/2 hours of slpendid earth rotation effected by the startrail.