Let’s start this post with some excuses. I have loved all the comments on the bot post, but I haven’t responded to them, though I do plan to. I was out for most of Friday and Saturday and I thought it would be better just to approve them, then later on respond. I haven’t done the response part yet, but will do so in the next couple of days. Okay, so just one excuse.
So on Friday I drove to Aireys Inlet for the New Moon. For those that don’t know the night of the new moon is the best time of the month to capture the milky way. Thankfully here in Australia you don’t have to go far to get it. I’ve been to Aireys Inlet before to get photos of it, so I was keen to try again.
I was using PhotoPills to work out where the milky way would be. Well I messed it up. We should have been on the other side of the lighthouse, which is where I had planned to be at first. I only hope with experience I will learn to read it better. I know it will be a really good tool.
Since I stuffed up being able to get the lighthouse I just turned the camera around and took the milky way over the ocean. Though you can see Lorne in the distance.
I also took some images of the lighthouse in the afternoon. I was hoping to do some time lapse before the night sky but there were no clouds and I thought it would be boring without them. I am thinking I should go back sometime and do some though, I think they would be nice.
I have put them all together in a video with the images before dark at first and finishing with my first time lapse of the milky way. I hope you enjoy it.
Great timelapse for the first time, enjoyed the watching the lead up images, brilliant.
Thank you Paul, I’m looking forward to doing more.
I have seen the milky way on odd occasions but always the northern hemisphere. Strange to think i am seeing a different view. My bedroom faced north over fields and as a child I was aware of how the constellations rotated round the pole but hadn’t really thought of how the milky way must rotate too.
I know what you mean RJ, we have the southern cross that is there too, which you wouldn’t see in your part of the world and there is the Northern star which we can’t see. It is funny to think of the stars moving. I remember as a kid lying on the ground outside and just staring up into the night sky. Thank you RJ
Awesome photo, Leanne.
Thank you Sofia.
What a beautiful series! And such a glorious mission to capture the Milky Way. It blows mind a little – all those stars!!
Thank you Cecilia, I really love capturing it and want to do it a lot more.
I have PhotoPills too and have yet worked it out. Still a great shot. Good luck next time.
It seems like a great tool, well will be when I can work it out. For me the difficulty is turning the 2D view into 3D. Thank you, hopefully each time I will learn more.
Beautiful image of this sky.Anita
Thank you
So cool
Thank you Beth.
My compliments for this time lapse and you found a great location to make the video too.
Thank you Rudi, I was hoping to get the lighthouse in it, oh well, another time I hope.
Excellent! I really love the capture of the lighthouse at blue hour, too!
Thank you Alicia, it is a great lighthouse to photograph, and it is free, which is great.
So beautifully photographed
Thank you Sadje.
You’re welcome
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This is a beautiful video, Leanne, well done! ❤️🇦🇺
Thank you so much John, I’m looking forward to doing more.
Whenever I start thinking of astrophotography I think of the expense involved in getting a good mount and tracking motors and everything. And then I give up for a year.
I don’t have any of that gear, I don’t think I will ever get that serious about doing it. YOu can just do it with a camera, a tripod and wide angle lens. Thanks.
I really enjoyed your Timelapse. Excellent. It would be interesting to know how many images you had to put together over what period of time to create your final video. Very cool.
That’s great to hear Ceci, ask and I can tell you. It was a 174 images over almost 2 hours. Does that help?
Thank you.
Love it!
Fantastic, thank you Anne.
I would love to be able to see the stars again. No chance here in NYC.
oh yes, no chance there, can you get out of the city Sherry? We can’t really see it here in Melbourne, but you don’t have to travel far to see it.
Need to take a long trip to see stars. Not possible in a day. Midwest would do.
Wow, that is a lot of light pollution. I didn’t realise you would have to travel so far. What a shame.
Absolutely breathtaking. Thank you for sharing this. You have an amazing talent.
Thank you so much.