Thank you for joining the Earth & Sky Mt John Star Watching tour, here you will be able to find the astro / star photos taken by Fraser Gunn on the night of your tour and a collection of the best star watching photos taken so far, all the staff at Earth & Sky, hope that you enjoyed the experience. Please select from the following dates and enjoy
This is the small aurora that we had on the 25th April 2012 this timelapse animation was taken from Mt John looking South with Tekapo village on the left. The animation was made with exposures of 20 seconds f/1.8 ISO 3200 from a Canon 5d mkii with a 24mm f/1.4 lens. There is a nice start to the aurora then it dies down sadly making the light pollution from the Ice rink very noticeable (they then turn there lights out - Thank you) and then the aurora flairs up again. With your eye you could see some strange glow of light and the occasional pillar - sadly not quite bright enough for us the see the colour with your eye - the reason you see lots of colour in this animation is because of the timed exposure of each image used (20 seconds) In total the Aurora lasted about 4 hours
These older star photos were brought to you by Earth and Sky, please select from the dates below
All Latest work has been in the way of Timelapse animations which can be seen on my personal Youtube Page FraserTK Channel
I have also started taking astrophotography with a small (but very sharp) Tele Vue 60is Telescope, here in Tekapo village, here you can see and download full sized (6000x4000 pixels) images
Timelapse animation panning over the 16" dome on Mt John as Earth & Sky run there star watching tours
More examples of night sky timelapse animation can be seen on my personal Youtube page FraserTK Channel
Here is a link to Robert Schwarz webpage, he is working at the South Pole so is in a very good position to see lots of Aurora activity - I am hoping we can make different views of the same aurora http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/
Panning timelapse animation looking over Lake Tekapo as the milkyway rises, the panning motion is controlled by a Mumford time machine - https://bmumford.securewebsites.com/photo/rotary/standard.html that slowly rotates between each of the 20 second, ISO 3200, f/2 exposures. In total 1800 images were taken over the entire night they are played back at 30 frames per second
