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: Milky Way
Scorpius and the Milky Way Widefield
Hi all On new moon weekend in April, I was invited out to the Mudgee Star Party at the Mudgee Observatory, held by the Southerland Astronomical Society Inc (SASI), to give a talk on my astrophotography. I took Jacob with me, and we had a fantastic weekend. Beautiful clear skies at night, warm sunny days, [...]
The Milky Way Setting at IISAC2009
Hi all On Thursday night when the sky was clear, the Milky Way looked lovely setting over the mountain in the West. So on Friday night, 16th October at IISAC2009, I setup my Canon 20D and 24-105mm L lens on a tripod, and programmed it to take 30 seconds exposures on repeat. I combined the result [...]
Milky Way For Sale
Hi all It’s been a long time since I’ve had any images to post – fortunately that’s changing now. We had some great skies up at Lostock at IISAC2009, and I was able to capture some widefield images and some experimental stuff. This image is the first I’ve had a chance to process since coming [...]
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, [...]
The Top 10 Best Astrophotographers in Australia
Australia has some very very talented amateur astrophotographers, producing images that are among the best in the world. Our beautiful dark skies, combined with the stunning objects visible in the Southern Hemisphere, give Australian Astrophotographers a bountiful choice of targets on which to produce their inspiring work. I wanted to feature and profile these brilliant [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Milky Way at Lostock
This is another image taken during the Saturday night site reconnaissance for IISAC2008 on the 27th September 2008. It’s 11 x 6 min exposures, ISO800 with the Canon 350D + Sigma 17-70mm @ 17mm. Piggybacked on the EQ6/ED80 combo, guided with a DMK21AU04. Dark subtracted, no flats. Conditions were nice and dark with good transparency, but it [...]
Jupiter in the Milky Way
This shot of Jupiter in the Milky Way was taken on the 20th September at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club during one of our new moon meets. I didn’t get there until 8pm and it’d been so long since I’d done any widefield photography, I didn’t capture my first real photon until 9:30pm or so. [...]
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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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