Zodiacal light in dawn sky, September 11, 2007. Canon 20Da camera with 10mm lens at f/3.5 and ISO 1600 for 60 seconds. A very transparent, dark night though with still some airglow bands of color visible here. Venus just rising at centre, and Sirius also rising at right. Taken from home.
Milky Way overhead showing Zodiacal Band (running vertically) and Gegenshein (top centre near Spica). Taken with 8mm f/3.5 Sigma fish-eye lens at f/5 and Hutech-modified Canon 5D for stack of 3 x 10 minute exposures at ISO 500. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, April 21, 2007.
Gegenschein & Zodiacal Band from Ryder Homestead, NSW, Australia, April 12, 2007, looking north, with Canon 15mm lens at f/4, and Canon 5D camera at ISO 400 for stack of 3 x 5.5 minute exposures. Gegenschein is below Spica at at top centre. Arcturus is bottom centre. Dew and humidity in air added sky gradient near horizon from light scatter from nearby towns.
