Unveiled by Moonlight - a photo on Flickriver

Unveiled by Moonlight

            I captured this scene during my first post-isolation nightscape photo trip last Friday night, 29th May. If not for the light of the waxing Moon that was a few hours from setting over the mountains west of Jaspers Brush, NSW, Australia, most of the landscape you see in the shot would be in darkness. The dusky-coloured central band of the Milky Way was well on its way up the eastern sky, bright enough to show itself through the partly-moonlit night. 

The two most massive planets in our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, were trailing the Milky Way on its journey across the heavens, shining so brightly that you can see their orbs reflected from the surface of the agricultural irrigation channel in the foreground. Since the Moon’s light is reflected sunlight, all of the earthly elements in the photo have the same colours as they when lit by the Sun during the daytime. If only our human eyes could see these colours and features between sunset and sunrise, perhaps we all might spend more time outdoors during those hours!

I shot this photo using my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, with a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.4x, using an exposure time of 25 seconds @ ISO 6400.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Jaspers Brush (show map)

Taken on: May 30, 2020

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Astronomy

Astrophotography

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Galactic Core

Jaspers Brush Airfield

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Milky Way

Moon

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Night

Nightscapes

Nowra

Planets

Reflections

Rural

Saturn

Shoalhaven

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Solar System

South Coast NSW

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Groups appears in: • BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live • Amateur Astro-Photography more » • Canon 6D + Samyang lenses • Yes you can see the Milky Way • We love Nature and Geology • Samyang & Rokinon Astrophotography • Astro Imaging « less

Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/2.5, 25 sec, 14mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	14mm
Aperture:	f/2.5
Exposure Time:	25
Focal Length:	14mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.2.1 (Macintosh)
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