The second Space Station pass of May 28/29, 2016, at 1:40 a.m., with cloud moving in adding the glows to all the stars. Taken with the 8mm fish-eye lens from home. The Big Dipper is high in the west at right. Mars is bright at bottom, to the south. Several other satellites are in the sky as well. This is a stack of 3 exposures, each 2.5-minutes with the camera on the Star Adventurer tracker.
The first Space Station pass of May 28/29, 2016, at 12:05 a.m. with the Milky Way rising in the east at left. Taken with the 8mm fish-eye lens from home. The Big Dipper is high overhead near the centre. Mars is bright at bottom, to the south. Jupiter is the bright object in the west at right. Another satellite, perhaps an Iridium, is flaring at top to the north. The ISS is travelling from west to east — right to left here. This is a stack of 3 exposures, each 2.5-minutes with the camera on the Star Adventurer tracker. I used the Sigma 8mm lens at f/3.5 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600.
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 right is the second largest and brightest nebula complex in the LMC, NGC 1763, dubbed the LMC Lagoon. 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.
