Star Watching Photo Archive |
Mackenzie Splendour DVD |
Photography by Fraser Gunn
Thank you for joining the Earth & Sky Mt John Star Watching tour, here are tonights star photos taken by Fraser Gunn, all the staff at
Earth & Sky, hope that you enjoyed the experience. Feel free to copy the photos to your computer and share them around.

Southern Cross 50mm f/8 ISO 800 480 seconds

Large Magellanic Cloud 50mm f/5 ISO 800 600 seconds

Eta Carina and Southern Pleiades 50mm f/5 ISO 800 600 seconds

Orion setting 50mm f/5 ISO 800 600 seconds

Moon Megrez 90 Telescope ISO 1600 1/200 seconds

Scorpius, the Moon and Venus rising 23mm f/8 ISO 800 360 seconds
Tonight I also made a timelapse animation looking SSW from Mt John using a 15mm fisheye lens, for the animation I used 788 x 30 second exposures (total time 7 hours 10 minutes) - which came out extremely well you can see it here
Tekapo Southern Night Sky taken from Mt John (23mb)
Star Watching Photo Archive |
Astrophotography highlights |
Photography by Fraser Gunn