Orion and Sirius from aircraft

[skysurfer]

Flying Singapore Airlines to Singapore on my way to Sydney I took this image somewhere above India.
I took this with my Canon EOS R6 DSLR and an EF 16-35mm f/2.8, two seconds handheld. I used a neck pillow around the lens to prevent cabin lighting glare. Left bottom under the wingtip is Canopus.

[Crater101]

That's pretty good considering the conditions (aircraft in motion, turbulence, lighting, etc.) Neatly done! :thumbsup:

[skysurfer]

One has to choose the correct moment: no turbulence, so the plane is not (means VERY SLOWLY) in motion relative to the stars, only relative to the terrestial foreground.
Lighting can easily be shielded by wrapping the neck pillow around the camera lens and pushing it against the window.


Anyway, from next Friday we are staying a few days near Bathurst.

[Leo.G]

That's a very nice image and very sharp.
Is the R6 a full frame sensor? (not that makes any difference)
Sorry, I am not familiar with the Canons.


My cousin is a steward/ess trainer with one of the airlines and took some amazing aurora shots from the cabin of the jet she was on some time back.
Of course MR IDIOT here quoted his younger sister and mentioned the tail of the plane was visible in the shot instead of using his own brain (it doesn't work so well now) and stating it was a wing tip in the image instead of the planes tail. I should have known better. My younger sister has only flown around the world 3 times, she shouldn't (I've never been up in anything bigger than a twin engine Cessna).



I hope you get/bring some clear skies with you, we don't see many of late.



There's worse places to stay, I'm 45 minutes from there, 30 if the cops aren't out, lol....

[Pierre_C]

Nice one, skysurfer.

Out of interest, did you get a sense of the difference in seeing being above the cloud layer?

[Crater101]

What Leo.G said - please bring some clear skies with you!

[skysurfer]

Right now, it is clear, but heavily light polluted, even in the darkest sites (yes, Full Moon), predictions are good.

Yes, it is, and the trick is that it has IBIS too which allows taking steady pictures with lenses without image stabilization.
Here two other images in the north (with Little Dipper).

[Leo.G]

Perhaps Crater could direct you to a dark region around Bathurst.
I'm possibly taking my little Megrez 80mm and a camera tripod (and Nikon D810) up to a local lookout tonight, I don't know, that's cloud and health related and I'm yet to decide. I have a few people I know who want to see the moon even through such a small telescope.

[Crater101]

I sometimes go out along the Ophir Road from Dunkeld - an outlying suburb to the north-west of Bathurst - where with about a 15 to 20 minute drive I can avoid the worst of the town lights. There are a couple of elevated points out there with some clear views away from the town.