Night photos long exposure

This is what 5am looked like moon behind some clouds palm tree in the windy morning At this point this is after I have the images off the mount. looking West.

A shot that came from a night I could only take one lens out as it was my only waterproof lens. I chose to hide under the bridge as a huge rain shower went by look at the bridge drains to see the amount of water that was falling above. From same night

On the night of new moon Perth was under clouds so we drove due east this is about 2 1/2 hours from home. we are standing on the edge of a salt Lake with a road the runs through the middle of it to the right next to top of horizon you can see the water when we got there venus was reflected on the water but you have to walk out in the soft mud to get there next to the edge of the water so we all gave that a miss. David is like Me shooting middle of shot, Carl is walking down from the car follow the headlight he is wearing further to the right. Have you met Carl and David before The sky was black but for the lights of the small town out in the wheat field area. in this shot is the lights of the town of Northham. The dead trees at the edge of the road was out main target with the Milky way behind. The Emu is well over the shot...for those that cant see it see below... apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html It was very cold and I got to 7 layers of clothing the temp dropped to 5c and it also was dew fall that can cause a very bad dew on the lens. I got home finally at 1:45 am and jumped into bed.

Lake Dowerin my last shot of the night as my lens was starting to show sign of dew fall. I have never see this as I don't normally shoot so late but the other two knew this would happen and I did not pack a dew heater for the lens, will never happen again. Much past this spot we got into the mud of the lake that was very slippery.It was a shame we had no water in the lake to get the reflection of the milky way on the lake as well. This was a concept shot to have the two Magellanic clouds in between the tree branches and the head of the Emu in shot.

I have always wanted to see just how the camera would see a car trip in the dark at 5:40 am most cases I am the driver but on this occasion I was not. So this is an educated guess press the shutter button with the camera on the dash of the car for 30 sec @ 103 km/H following a car transport truck. Its the dark trees way out in the bush that line the roads. I am thinking I should have shot on high beam may be to get a more expanded view...

We set out as clouds parted and we wanted to take advantage of no moon. We went to the Lancelin sand Dunes a Huge area. I was very reticent to go as I had the mount shooting the Helix nebula and the focus was not working as well as I would have liked. I did a dummy run of focus it worked so I let nina start it self at 9pm to start the night and night 3 saturday. You can see the position of the Helix nebula on the Milky way close to the planet Saturn. we drove into the dune in a 4x4 and first dune we got bogged in the soft powdered sand way down the end of the valley near the three white tops(exit of the dunes safety light). We got out by the use of tryer boards under the wheel. we arrived at this spot and the three of us started shooting. this was the very end of the night I walked into the "valley" right up close to the dunes to try and cover the lights from the small hamlet of lancelin ( left side). the dune to my left shoulder is bigger than a house you get no usable scale in the black of night. The Milky way was getting smaller and lower so I walked down the dune into the valley. we left a 3 am I got in the house at 4:30 am just in time to turn off the alarm then crawled into bed. It was a very cold night lots of layers on again. technically might be the first photo taken on the 19th only New Zealand is much ahead of australia. D810 ISO5000 Samyang 14mm F2.8 20Sec. 5 Vertical shots.

Carl and David were still setting up and my first Bow was painted red from the Red head lights they used. I took my gear and walked over and behind the ridge so they were blocked from view. Left side is the Hamlet of Lancelin and the orange light as the Major intersection . You can see in the center the headlights of a car in the dunes closer to the sea, and the Lights Of Cervantites and the orange light at the turn off. Enjoy some of our black nights. you can see the area has so many car tyre marks you can't get away from them.

This was taken at 10:30 pm, by this time we were hit with the 10 knot winds trying to guide a big telescope in winds this strong is just not possible. you can clearly see the effect of the wind all 54 photos where the same do a different degree. At this point every body had "turned in" but the sounds of the Astro tents flapped and made noise to match a harbour full of yachts that did not take down there sails or tethered them in the strong winds. The noise was deafening from the three astro tents as the winds increased through the night. This is very much how I use to view the stars as a kid in the Islands but here you can still see "Perth" in the distance. After this I went to "bed" but was woken by crashings about me my hide was still sound but I was not going outside you got blown away. In the morning one tent frame was crushed by the wind pole fell on a cable to the mount and cut it. The other tent next to me was the crash the pole fell on the mount and jammed it from moving. What I did see at 2 am in the morning a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/1073393/49755956"> I could clearly see the Octans high in the sky with out any extra equipment they where that vivid. once you have spent your night looking for then on a computer you can not ever miss that shape of the bowel. In the morning I packed it up as I saw the Wind forcast had changed to 15 Knots no point being here better to go home. As this was a wheat farm all my equipment and car had to be cleaned of the straw blown about in the winds. It was in everything including the Telescope. It was rather interesting my car is not small but a large SUV it was blown about on the road as you came out of the trees to open farmland. It will be a while before I go back. I did not sleep much so got up early and walked the farm in the early morning light... these will follow.