Sky at Night

Follow the house to Polaris! Star trail from evening/morning of March 4/5th 2010. Camera out at approx 1900hrs and left shooting one exposure every 15s through till next morning. Over 2000 images stacked and flattened to produce the star trail. Taken with Olympus E3 and 7-14mm lens.

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.

Perigee full moon from Friday January 29th 2010. The biggest full moon of the year. Astronomers call it a "perigee Moon," because it some 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons of the year. The Moon's orbit around Earth is not a circle but an ellipse, with one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other. Astronomers call the point of closest approach "perigee," and that is where the Moon will be Friday 29th night through Saturday 30th morning. Olympus E3, 90-250mm, x2 TC, F10, 1/250s, ISO 100