Low and Leaving - a photo on Flickriver

Low and Leaving

            The central band of the Milky Way looks hazy in today’s photo due to how close to the horizon that part of the sky was when I captured the scene. Spring in my Southern Hemisphere is nearly done, bringing more hours of sunlight every day as we move closer to the summer solstice. Sadly for me, those longer days mean fewer hours of darkness in which to photograph the stars. 

I captured this scene at the wind farm near Taralga, Australia, a few weekends back, on what turned out to be the only cloudless night for close to a week. By the time the clouds gave way to clear skies again the Moon had begun another cycle, and its brightness was overwhelming the light of the stars, almost certainly ending my Milky Way photography season for 2020. 

Jupiter and Saturn are riding high up in the top right-hand corner of this image. These two planets will move closer to each other in the sky over the coming weeks, eventually looking like one very bright star sometime around December 21.

This photograph is a single-frame image that I shot with Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Taralga (show map)

Taken on: November 14, 2020

Tags:

Astronomy

Astrophotography

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Night

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, 15 sec, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Exposure Time:	15
ISO:	6400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.3 (Macintosh)
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