Australian Night Sky

[ehanes7612]

for those in Australia..this is what your night sky looks like in reality

https://www.facebook.com/southerncr...8293794656195/830298923789013/?type=3&theater

 

[Don I]

Beauty.
Don

 

[SlipperFan]

Wow.

 

[Lanmark]

Super cool!

 

[abax]

Magnificent photo of the sky.

 

[Ozpaph]

Spectacular. I wonder where it was taken and the details.
Here's my effort from this week at a near by beach (Peregian, Sunshine coast. Qld).
windows 7 screenshot

 

[ehanes7612]

Spectacular. I wonder where it was taken and the details.
Here's my effort from this week at a near by beach (Peregian, Sunshine coast. Qld).
windows 7 screenshot

he used a modified DSLR (cooled to reduce read and bias noise in electronics) and a filter for the Nebula..and a stacking process for the sky (many subs), single shot for land

Taken at Two Peoples Bay nature reserve, East of Albany

 

[Wendy]

Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing these guys. I was in Mexico the end of March and couldn't believe the detail in the night sky down there. Maybe far less 'light pollution'? I don't know but it was far more detail than we have here at home.

 

[Lanmark]

Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing these guys. I was in Mexico the end of March and couldn't believe the detail in the night sky down there. Maybe far less 'light pollution'? I don't know but it was far more detail than we have here at home.

Now I want to go back to Mexico for a visit.

 

[ehanes7612]

this is a bit outdated, as cities convert to LED's the light pollution is getting much worse, this map hasn't reflected that data yet but you get the idea
http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

 

[Ozpaph]

Thats a good resource, thanks.

 

[SlipperFan]

Our little planet is so very far from the center of our galaxy. It fills my mind with wonder.

 

[NYEric]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[TrueNorth]

Are those blue streaks in your photo caused by the plankton that emit light when disturbed?

 

[ehanes7612]

It's not my photo .. you can go to the link and ask the person who took the photo

 

[Happypaphy7]

Great shots!
Thanks for sharing.

Now, I wonder how close they actually look to our eyes?

Last time I saw beautiful star-studded night sky was a few years ago sleeping on the sand in the southern Utah desert.

 

[ehanes7612]

Great shots!
Thanks for sharing.

Now, I wonder how close they actually look to our eyes?

Last time I saw beautiful star-studded night sky was a few years ago sleeping on the sand in the southern Utah desert.

when you go to high desert and the seeing conditions are excellent (meaning no weird thermal activity or dust and there is low humidity), the stars look so pristine ..they honestly look like you can just reach out and grab them

 

[Stone]

for those in Australia..this is what your night sky looks like in reality

https://www.facebook.com/southerncr...8293794656195/830298923789013/?type=3&theater

By ''looks like'' I assume you mean not to human eyes? It would be nice if that's what it really did look like! However, in the desert at night, the stars are just as bright on the horizon as overhead. Something city people never see.

 

[ehanes7612]

By ''looks like'' I assume you mean not to human eyes? It would be nice if that's what it really did look like! However, in the desert at night, the stars are just as bright on the horizon as overhead. Something city people never see.

we can't take long exposures with our eyes..so yeah


if they are city people who go out to the desert , like me..they will see what you describe..so city folks do see this on occasion