An amateur astronomer looking at a southern sky target below the Large Magellanic Cloud using a large Dobsonian telescope at the OzSky Star Party organized by the Three Rivers Foundation Australia. The Small Cloud is just above the treetops. Achernar is the bright star behind the ladder. Airglow adds some faint green and red bands to the sky. This is a stack of 2 x 13-second untracked exposures with the 35mm lens at f/2 and Canon 6D at ISO 6400.
An observer gazes at the Orion Nebula in Orion, at the OzSky Star Party in Australia, April 2016. Note that Orion appears upside down compared to the northern hemipshere view. The telescope is a Dobsonian reflector supplied by the Three Rivers Foundation Australia. This is a single untracked 13-second exposure with the 35mm lens at f/2 and Canon 6D at ISO 6400.
A superb display of aurora borealis seen on March 14, 2016 when it reached Level 5 storm levels. This was as the major substorm hit and the curtains to the south lit up with intensity and motion. Note the subtle differences in red coloration in the tops of the curtains. This was seen and shot from the Churchill Northern Studies Center, Churchill, Manitoba, with this image looking south over the abandoned Churchill Rocket Range. A lone observer admires the show. Illumination is from the 6-day old Moon as well as from the aurora itself. This image is one frame from some 2000 I shot this night as part of rapid-cadence time-lapse sequences. Frames were shot at f/1.4 with the Sigma 20mm lens and Nikon D750 using 1 to 2 second exposures.
