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This is a photograph of this view (well a little to the right avoiding the gate) taken tonight just before the moon rose. I’m surprised by the amount of light pollution to the left hand side and there is a small amount of Aurora Borealis to the right hand side.
Today we had basically no moon appearance today and, unusually, a cloudless evening sky so I popped out and set up my camera to shoot a star trail from our back garden…and here it is! I only realised the evening was going to be perfect for some astro photography late
Today we have the Moon and Venus taken on my Nikon D800 with my Tamron 150 – 600mm lens handheld in the back garden. It’s a 16.7% waxing crescent tonight, it’s nearly 4 days old (in it’s cycle round the earth – its believed to have been around for approximately
As younger, hipper people than I apparently say “It’s been a minute”! 4 years since I last posted a photograph and 3 years since I posted anything at all. Many things have changed since then. We’ve moved house. After 25 years in Essex we’ve moved into the Scottish Borders, just
Always good to see the moon first thing in the morning, you can usually get a decent exposure easily because the contrast between the brightness of the sky and the moon is a lot lower than during the night.
I’ve been keen to shoot the stars and I had some limited success with this but the moon coming up over the lake at Hatfield Forest was quite beautiful. It’s amazingly quiet in the forest at this time of night…except for the roar of the jet engines and smell of
This is something I’m, looking to do a lot more of in the New Year, photography of the night sky. Tonight really wasn’t the ideal time to give this a go – an almost full moon certainly doesn’t help and being in the middle of a small town makes it
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