A New Dawn

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Mt Buffalo National Park, Australia. 7/02/2016

Spent a night out at my favorite place to sit and watch the world go by last weekend. I wanted to catch all the unaided eye planets and the rising central bulge of the Milky Way in the one panorama. With a crescent Moon rising on the horizon and slightly lighting up the landscape I had to work fast before the sky got too bright from the approaching dawn.

20 image panorama. Canon 6D, 24mm, F/2, ISO 6400, 15 second exposures.



Cheers

Greg

[zenith (Tim)]

Magnificent.

[Somnium (Aidan)]

that is absolutely beautiful, straight in the pool room for that

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Beautiful Greg, love it!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great shot Greg. Beautiful vista.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah...Tim has said it all

Mike

[gregbradley]

Man you are the king of nightscapes. Superb. Would look great printed really large.

Greg.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you so much for the great feedback gents Really appreaciate it.

Cheers

Greg

[skysailor (Peter)]

Greg,
you deserve every "pat on the back" that you get for that shot.... very nice indeed.
Lovely part of the world to sit back and just take it all in...
cheers

[h0ughy (David)]

wow thats very nice - especially on my 48"

[Ric]

That's wonderful, excellent work.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you so much Ric, David and Peter

[matt34 (Matt)]

Nice work Greg, yet to get out there this year and take some night shots

The rising moon light gives a look level of illumination to the foreground.

Are you using the canon, samyang or other 24mm? hows the comma at f/2?

2 rows of 10 in the pano?

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

That is a sweet shot.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you very much Graeme and Matt

Originally Posted by matt34

Nice work Greg, yet to get out there this year and take some night shots

The rising moon light gives a look level of illumination to the foreground.

Are you using the canon, samyang or other 24mm? hows the comma at f/2?

2 rows of 10 in the pano?

Hope you get a chance to get out there soon Matt. My nocturnal wanderings have been few and far between this year as well so far. Taken with the Sammy and yes it was two rows of ten. Coma is pretty darn good at F/2 on this lens. Certainly better than any other lens I have and better than Canons 24mm that I have seen. Gets even better at F/2.5 and 2.8