I really wanted to capture a great image of the beautiful Andromeda Galaxy (M31) from IISAC2009, but everything conspired against me and it just didn’t work out the way I’d hoped. With a host of problems, I only captured 15 minutes of data and no flats calibration. Despite all that, it’s my first image of M31 [...]
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The M7 Open Star Cluster in Scorpius
Hi all The Open Cluster M7 (or Ptolemy’s Cluster) is situated in the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way. This image was taken at IISAC2009, early on the Saturday night before it clouded over. The Milky Way was setting in the West, and I captured 50 minutes of data on this object [...]
The Milkyway from Mangrove Mountain Pony Club
On Saturday night, I headed out to the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club for the first time since January, to do some social observing with friends, and some widefield photography away from home. The image below is the outcome from the night – a widefield Milkyway image taken with my Canon 350D and 28mm f/2.8 lens, [...]
Crescent Moon and Jupiter Conjunction, 23rd March 2009
This morning there was a beautiful conjunction featuring the waning Crescent Moon and Jupiter, less than 2° away. Looking through the eyepiece at Jupiter, she appeared to have an extra moon in an odd position – in fact it was a field star, HIP105256. The Galilean Moons were close by – Io was right next [...]
From the Vault: Long Jetty Sunset
In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week is titled Long Jetty Sunset and has long been one of my [...]
From the Vault: Observing the Milky Way
In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week is titled Observing the Milky Way and I think it’s easy to [...]
Image of the Rosette Nebula (NGC2237)
Hi all This image was captured on the 30th January 2009 at my local “dark sky” site at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club. I say “dark sky” in quotes because while it’s darker than my home, it’s not exactly what you’d call a nice dark sky site as it’s still only 20 minutes from Gosford [...]
From the Vault: Coffs Harbour Sunrise
In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week is from a Coffs Harbour Sunrise series. These images were taken on [...]
Photo and Video of the Night Sky Over Birubi Beach Dunes
When you’re on a family holiday over christmas, it’s 10pm at night and the skies are clear and you feel the need to do some photography, what better option than to head into the sand dunes at Birubi Beach and take some star trail photos. So there I was, sitting in the sand dunes while [...]
Preparing for an Upcoming (and First) Wedding Shoot!
UPDATE: Results of my First Wedding Shoot – Tanya and Marvin. I’ve never really done much people photography. The odd family photo here and there but my main interest and passion has been landscape photography and of course astrophotography. So you can imagine it came as quite a shock to me when a few weeks [...]
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of IceInSpace, and this is my personal blog site and image gallery.
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