Stunning work! They're all amazing, but like many others #6 really works for me. I wouldn't have thought to look for an interesting tree like *and* a body of water for the reflections... very creative.
Do you mind me asking - did you already have that location in mind from a prior experience, or was it a site that you found specifically for the comet?
Thanks Dave. I love this site and I definitely had it in mind when I heard about the comet. I live 300km away and it just happened that I was heading to my home country town for Xmas! I've had many night shoots there and I love getting the nice foregrounds in my images.
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Stunning work! They're all amazing, but like many others #6 really works for me. I wouldn't have thought to look for an interesting tree like *and* a body of water for the reflections... very creative.
Do you mind me asking - did you already have that location in mind from a prior experience, or was it a site that you found specifically for the comet?
Here's a quick image I took this morning. It shows the ISS transiting the bottom of the comet!! I couldn't believe that the entire transit cut perfectly across the comet like this! The image is 30sec and the transit was probably only 10secs total so I was lucky I was taking a photo at the time! I knew it was going to be a short transit but was amazed that this happened!
I was also able to get its reflection in the water too, along with the comet, the Pointers and Southern Cross (just!).
More photos from the night to come... I need sleep first!
Here are some more 'arty' shots from the morning of the 27th. I noticed that there was a green glow on the horizon showing up in the first hour or so of photos that I took. I presume it was fog or faint cloud but it might be slight auroral activity?? Later images didn't show it at all. All processed in PS5. #2 was processed from RAW file while others were jpg.
#1 ISO 6400, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm
#2 ISO 6400, 30 sec, f4 at 22mm
#3 ISO 6400, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm
#4 ISO 6400, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm
#5 ISO 3200, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm
#6 ISO 3200, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm
#7 ISO 3200, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm
#8 is a stack of 6 images to show the full ISS transit, ISO 3200, 30 sec, f4 at 12mm.
Wayne, that green light was picked up quite strongly in my photos (here) taken from a super dark site near Roma, QLD, and to a lesser extent from a dark site in Blackbutt, QLD. I'd also be very interested to know what causes it?!
I could see that there was a slight fog or something with the naked eye, but no colour obviously. I've seen it in many of the Lovejoy photos posted here. The fact I captured it in QLD suggests that it's not auroral activity (I didn't think it could be seen here)?
Perhaps it was some form of zodiacal light or gegenschein?
WOW!!! These are superb Wayne! I love how much detail there is in each shot, the beautiful composition, the stars reflected in the water and the dead trees in the foreground. They are all breathtaking and very inspiring! Thanks for sharing!
Those are exquisite!!!!!. Just post them a little larger like the first ones and they'll really blow you away!!!
That green glow might be some sort of upper atmospheric ionisation from the storms we've been having lately. It would be oxygen, as H suggested, being excited by all the electrical activity. Nitrogen glows a bright blue, so it's not that.
No....it's the generalised green glow he's talking about. If it's not some refraction effect through very fine mist, then it maybe light coming from ionised oxygen atoms....specifically from the transition of outer valence shell electrons back into their ground state, giving you that green coloured light. It'll be occurring in the upper atmosphere...very high up, over 100km up. It's probably being generated by the sprites and other electrical discharges at the tops of the storms.
Thanks Carl, I was getting my atmospheric phenomena mixed up. I did a bit more reading on Wikipedia and it seems to be referred to as a form of airglow or nightglow?
I particularly like all the reflection photos of the comet future award winner? Are you the only photographer with reflection shots? I've seen so many photos of the comet I've lost track?
Thanks Lisa. Yes I like taking something a bit different like that. I'll enter a couple in comps I guess and see what happens. The first photo I saw on IIS in the main Lovejoy thread was a beautiful reflection image and included the moon, by colinmlegg, but other than that I haven't seen any others. I like the symmetry that reflections give.
Last night I did a reflection time lapse so I'll be interested to see how that turns out.
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I particularly like all the reflection photos of the comet future award winner? Are you the only photographer with reflection shots? I've seen so many photos of the comet I've lost track?
Thanks everyone for your comments. I've got so many images now it's hard to pick my best ones! I did a time lapse last night so when I work out how I can post it after processing I'll put it up!
Thanks for the info on the sky colour I was picking up. I think i was just hopeful it was an aurora! haha. Airglow seems to be the likely explanation - thanks Dave. There were no storms or cloud around when I picked it up.
Carl - I didn't realise they were smaller! I had to resize them of course for the 200kb limit on the file size but I thought I did it the same way as the first lot!
The image is 30sec and the transit was probably only 10secs total so I was lucky I was taking a photo at the time! I knew it was going to be a short transit but was amazed that this happened!
