Taste The Rainbow

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Hi all,

Milky Way and colourful airglow, Tasmania, Australia. 19/05/2013

The night before I got the aurora display on my trip to Tasmania last year, there was another brief display but I was effected by too much cloud cover where I was staying. I made a decision to jump in my car to try and find a clear area of sky. After driving for about an hour I did find a clearing in the clouds but the aurora display had ended. It was not a waste though as there was still some amazing colour in the sky from airglow.

10 image panorama, Canon 5D MkII, 14mm, F/2.8, ISO 3200, 30 second exposures.



This has been sitting on my computer for ages and I hesitated to post it for a long time as it is just another Milky Way arch shot that is a bit done to death now. But I have seen so many very cool airglow images lately that they reminded me that I had this laying around.

Cheers

Greg

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

I think you could say that about all photography nowadays ... one of the downsides of popularization. It's still a nice shot though, Greg and well worth posting.

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

A very nice shot for the effort you put in to take it

May i ask what what part of Tas was it taken from .

cheers Graeme.

[gregbradley]

Stunning as always Greg.

Whilst its a MW bow it is rare to see one with green airglow on one side and magenta/red on the other. That is unusual. I have seen plenty of green airglow and sometimes some red/,magenta streams in the green but not quite like that.

Greg.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you so much guys

To be honest I'm not sure exactly where I was for this shot Graeme. I headed from where I was staying near Hobart along the A3 towards the East coast. Somewhere just north of Triabunna I think. I just pulled over on the side of the road and discovered that I had pulled up next to this row of trees in an almost perfect alignment with the MW. No cars around at all which was a bit surprising considering it's one of the major roads in the state, but then again it was something like 3am.

[Antu]

Excellent composition, Greg ! The airglow makes the scene even more exciting. Very lucky timing !

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice shot Greg!

[rogerg (Roger)]

Love those silhouettes

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you very much Yuri, Mike and Roger

[ourkind (Carlos)]

This has got to be one of my favourite GB nightscapes Greg. I love the framing of the two trees and the colours across the sky, a work of art. It's beautiful!

[mbaddah (Mo)]

Beautifully composed.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you so much guys