I had an idea of a picture in my mind – all I needed was clear skies and the type of foreground I was after. After driving around Yarramalong, Kulnura and Somersby for a couple of hours, searching for the right location and waiting for clear skies, I had almost given up and started heading home when I came upon a private road that seemed to clear at the end.
Posts by Tag: Galaxy
M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy from IISAC2009
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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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