1-6-25 / 19:13 - 22-37 / NZ

Driving on the way to my chosen spot I could see the sky lighting up through the windscreen of the car so I had to pull and make the most of where I was! This happened to be in the middle of Dunstan Gorge. After there I tried a few other spots near by spots!

Pulling together some unstitched versions of Astro Panoramas and trying some different editing techniques - Butcher's Dam - 27-3-25

Beautifully crisp, dark skies over Queenstown early hours Sunday morning.

‘The Absurd & Peculiar Raspberry Ripple Planet’

Our existence perplexes me at the best of times… so when things get weird what’s the best thing to do?

I reckon… take a 72 image Multi-row Panorama of a G4-5 Geomagnetic Storm under the cover of Cirrocumulus Clouds…

Timelapse from the 11-10-24 @ Poolburn Dam - NZ. This was photographed with a D750 and a Tamron 24-70mm @ 24mm and a 16mm Fisheye.

Looking back / 30-7-24 / 23:20 / Southland Coastline - NZ

2-1-25 / 02:48 - 02:55 / Tarras

What a bangin start to the year! After driving around for a bit looking for a location to stop, we settled on a relatively sheltered area next to the road. The plan was to track but that lasted about as long as it took to set up the trackers!

The Blue Lake - St Bathans - NZ

The majestic Milky Way Arch - Lake Dunstan, South Island, NZ

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Milky-way Arch, Zodiacal Light, Magellanic Clouds, Auroral Glow @ Conroys Dam, NZ

A Multirow pano from the 8-10-24 photographed in the Lindis Valley - NZ #universe #aurora #newzealand #nightscaper #astrophotography #landscapeastrophotography

Progression of an eventful G4-G5 Geomagnetic Storm under increasing cloud cover @ Poolburn - NZ - 11-10-24

Southland - New Zealand - 30-7-24

Aurora Australis - Large Magellanic Cloud - Carina Nebula - Coalsack Nebula

This is a stack of 22 images which were extracted from a Timelapse sequence shot on a D750 with a Tamron 24-70mm @ 24mm.

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Nugget Point Lighthouse - A quick Vertorama during Astronomical twilight back on the 24th April 2023

The morning after the night before

Waking up after a couple of hours kip in the back of the car, spent because of the excitement of the 2 Dec 23 Aurora display, peaking through a slit of an eye kinda hoping sunrise was no good… only to find this and thinking, I have too!

Aurora Australis under Cirrocumulus clouds. Poolburn Reservoir, South Island NZ. There’s still lots to photograph, even when scuppered by cloud! 😀 Taken during the G4+ G5- geomagnetic storm we were treated to on the 11-10-24

Hey wonderful people! First post here on Bluesky, this panorama is from Butchers Dam, South Island New Zealand

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