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2016 Australia { 132 images } Created 7 May 2016

A selection of images taken in Australia in March and April 2016.

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$Alpha Cruxis, or Acrux, the brightest star in the Southern Cross, Crux. It is a blue-white star 320 light years away. This is a superb double star but is not resolved here. Small star clusters NGC 4349 (above) and NGC 4609 (at left) appear near Acrux. The area is also rich in dark nebulas near the Coal Sack. I shot this April 3, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia using the 77mm f/4 astrographic refractor and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII, for a stack of 4 x 6 minute exposures at ISO 1600.$

Acrux in Southern Cross (77mm 5DII).jpg
Alpha Centauri to Crux Mosaic (135mm...jpg
Anti-Crepuscular Rays at Woolgoolga.jpg
Anti-Crepuscular Rays Panorama.jpg
Apogee Full Moon Rising over the Pac...jpg
B87 Parrot Head Nebula (77mm 5DII).jpg
$Beta Cruxis, or Becrux aka Mimosa, the second brightest star in the Southern Cross, Crux. It is a blue star 280 light years away. This is a superb double star but is not resolved here. Small star clusters NGC 4852 (at left) and NGC 4755 (at below left) appear near Becrux. The latter is the famous Jewel Box Cluster. The north edge of the Coal Sack apepars at bottom. The large cluster Trumpler 20 is at right. I shot this April 3, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia using the 77mm f/4 astrographic refractor and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII, for a stack of 4 x 6 minute exposures at ISO 1600.$

Becrux in Southern Cross (77mm 5DII).jpg
Bug Nebula, NGC 6302 (106mm 5DII).jpg
Canis Major Setting Over Moonlit Tre...jpg
Canopus, Alpha Carinae (106mm 6D).jpg
Carina Nebula & Chi Velorum (77m...jpg
$This is the spectacular region of sky around the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, in Carina, with its adjacent nebulas and open star clusters. NGC 3532, the Football Cluster, aka th e Black Arrow Cluster, is at left, while NGC 3293, the Gem Cluster, is at upper right. At far right is the ear-lobed shaped Southern Crescent Nebula, NGC 3199, a remnant of a Wolf-Rayet star and its stellar winds. This is a two-panel mosaic, with each panel a stack of 4 x 6-minute exposures with the Borg 77mm f/4 astrographic refractor and filter modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. Stitched in Photoshop. Shot April 3/4, 2016 from Tibuc Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. No filter was employed in shooting the frames. Autoguided with the SBIG SG-4 guider. Re-processed in 2024.$

Carina Nebula Panorama (77mm 5DII).jpg
Cat's Paw Nebula Area (77mm 5DI...jpg
Caught in a Lighthouse Beam.jpg
Centre of Galaxy Mosaic (135mm 5DII).jpg
Centre of Galaxy Rising Above Trees ...jpg
Centre of Galaxy Rising Above Trees ...jpg
Centre of Galaxy Rising over OzSky S...jpg
Centre of the Galaxy (77mm 5DII).jpg
Centre of the Galaxy Mosaic (35mm 5D...jpg
Circumpolar Stars Over Tibuc Cottage.jpg
Clouds over the Sea Panorama.jpg
Cloudy Ocean Sunrise with Crepuscula...jpg
Cloudy Sunrise at Woolgoolga Headlan...jpg
Coal Sack to Lambda Centauri Mosaic ...jpg
Crepuscular Rays over the Pacific.jpg
Crux and Carina Above Moonlit Trees.jpg
Crux and Carina Above Moonlit Trees ...jpg
Crux and Pointers in Moonlit Clouds.jpg
Crux and Pointers over the Pacific.jpg
Crux, Southern Cross, Mosaic (77mm 5...jpg
Dark Doodad & NGC 4372 (77mm 5DI...jpg
Dark Emu Rising (14mm 5DII).jpg
Dark Emu Rising (15mm 5DII).jpg
Dark Emu Rising over OzSky Star Part...jpg
Dark Horse & Pipe Nebula (135mm ...jpg
Fishing Boat at Sunrise.jpg
Full Moon with Glitter Path.jpg
Gacrux in Southern Cross (106mm 6D).jpg
Gibbous Moon over Gum Trees HDR.jpg
Gibbous Moon Over Upper Ebor Falls.jpg
Golden Glitter Path of the Moon.jpg
Hadar, Beta Centauri (106mm 6D).jpg
Heather at Woolgoolga Headlands.jpg
Lighthouse Beams Beside the Southern...jpg
Lighthouse Beams in Moonlight.jpg
Lighthouse Beams over the Starry Sea.jpg
$A 4-panel mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and visible only from the southern hemisphere. The field takes in most of the LMC and its numerous nebulas and clusters. Notable is the Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070, the cyan-tinted nebula at far left, surrounded by many other NGC nebulas and clusters. At upper right is the second largest and brightest nebula complex in the LMC, NGC 1763, dubbed the LMC Lagoon, or the Bean Nebula. This is a 4-panel mosaic taken March 31, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. Each panel is a stack of 4 x 3 minute exposures with the Borg 77mm f/4 astrographic refractor and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. Stitched in Photoshop.$

LMC Mosaic (77mm 5DII).jpg
$The spectacular field of Messier 6 and 7 open star clusters in Scorpius, with M7, aka Ptolemy’s Cluster, embedded in the dense starfields of the galactic centre at right, and M6, the Butterfly Cluster, set against the darker dust lanes of the Milky Way. I shot this April 4, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage at Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, using the 77mm Borg f/4 astrograph for a stack of 5 x 6-minute exposures with the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. Diffraction spikes added with Astronomy Tools actions.$

M6 and M7 in Scorpius (77mm 5DII).jpg
M8 and M20 in Sagittarius #2 (77mm 5...jpg
M8 and M20 in Sagittarius (77mm 5DII...jpg
Mars and Antares in Scorpius (135mm ...jpg
Meteor with Crux and Carina (35mm 6D...jpg
Milky Way at Moonrise from Nambucca ...jpg
Milky Way Overhead Through Trees (15...jpg
Milky Way over Smoky Cape.jpg
Milky Way over Smoky Cape Panorama.jpg
Milky Way over Tibuc Cottage Panoram...jpg
Milky Way over Tibuc Cottage Panoram...jpg
Milky Way over Tibuc Cottage Panoram...jpg
$The waxing gibbous Moon in thin cloud over Ebor Falls from the Lower Falls viewpoint, on the Waterfall Way in NSW, in the New England Tablelands, in Guy Fawkes River National Park. This is an evening twilight image with the Moon rising into the northeast sky. The clouds are coloured with a diffraction-caused lunar corona effect. This is a high dynamic range stack of 7 exposures to preserve the range in brightness between the bright Moon and dark ground.$

Moon in Clouds over Ebor Falls.jpg
Moonlight over Shelly Beach.jpg
Moonrise Below the Southern Cross.jpg
NGC 2736 Pencil Nebula (77mm 5DII).jpg
NGC 6231 to 6124 in Scorpius Tail (1...jpg
NGC 6231 to NGC 6124 Mosaic (77mm 5D...jpg
Observer at Dob with Jupiter & L...jpg
Observer at Dob with Jupiter & L...jpg
Observer at Dob with Jupiter & L...jpg
Observer at OzSky with Jupiter #1.jpg
Observer Looking at LMC (Landscape).jpg
Observer Looking at LMC (Portrait).jpg
Observer Looking at Orion from Austr...jpg
Observer Looking at Southern Milky W...jpg
Observer Looking at Southern Sky #2.jpg
Observer Looking at Southern Sky.jpg
Ocean Cloudscape at Sunrise.jpg
Orion Above Moonlit Trees v1.jpg
Orion Above Moonlit Trees v2.jpg
Orion and Canis Major Above Moonlit ...jpg
OzSky Looking East (Ultrastreaks).jpg
OzSky Looking North (Ultrastreaks).jpg
OzSky Looking South (Ultrastreaks).jpg
OzSky Looking West (Ultrastreaks).jpg
OzSky Panorama #1 (Rectangular).jpg
OzSky Panorama #1 (Spherical).jpg
OzSky Panorama #2 (Rectangular).jpg
OzSky Panorama #2 (Spherical).jpg
OzSky Panorama #3.jpg
OzSky Panorama #4.jpg
Regor, Gamma Velorum (106mm 6D).jpg
$Alpha Centauri, or Rigil Kentaurus, the brightest star in Centaurus and the nearest star system to the Sun. It is a pair of Sun-like stars 4 light years away. This is a superb double star but is not resolved here. The star cluster NGC 5617 appears to the right of Alpha. The area is also rich in dark nebulas. High haze added some natural star glows here — no filter was used. I shot this April 3, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia using the 77mm f/4 astrographic refractor and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII, for a stack of 4 x 5 minute exposures at ISO 1600.$

Rigil Kentaurus, Alpha Centauri (77m...jpg
Saturn and Mars in Scorpius (135mm 5...jpg
Scorpius Rising at OzSky Star Party.jpg
Scorpius Rising Behind Trees (35mm 6...jpg
Scorpius Rising in Moonlight (35mm 6...jpg
Scorpius Rising with Mars, Saturn &a...jpg
Scorpius with Mars & Saturn (35m...jpg
Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris (106mm 6...jpg
Smoky Cape Lighthouse at Twilight Pa...jpg