Antarctica - Milky Way and Auroras

[likeitfast55]

The first pic is a shot of London as we were through about fl80. The second is an eclipse from fl370

[Mike K]

Man I would love a high res copy of this. all rights reserved of course.


David

I'll send you a link to the larger picture when I get to the room. It isn't going to be any sharper.... that is the problem I a trying to work out right now.

I use a video tripod and depending on how bad the wind is a 10 or 20lb weight hanging in the center of the tripod to steady it. Also, looking at the snow it seems like your white balance is off (it also could be the ambient light) does it look true to what you're seeing? The stars seem about right to me, I guess you have some really yellow light out there.

Most of the lights in town are some kind of metal halide which puts off quite a bit of yellow. They are slowly switching over to LED. The town was to my back so the lights were hitting Ob Hill (see pic below, I was half way up the hill). If I fixed the color on the hill then it screwed up my sky color. Considering I am just trying to get my sky pictures to come out better, I wasn't really too concerned with the hill.

What is the story on the cross on top of that small rise.

The cross is at the top of Observation Hill (Ob Hill) right next to town. Here is a picture of the hill (picture is from last winter):


About the cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observ...Murdo_Station)

[CJ]

Most of the lights in town are some kind of metal halide which puts off quite a bit of yellow. They are slowly switching over to LED. The town was to my back so the lights were hitting Ob Hill (see pic below, I was half way up the hill). If I fixed the color on the hill then it screwed up my sky color. Considering I am just trying to get my sky pictures to come out better, I wasn't really too concerned with the hill.

Awesome, yeah that's what I figured. It would be an easy post-editing fix anyway. Looks good man, I know you're sacrificing a lot for those pictures with as cold as it is.

[samuel642000]

Man it's pretty down there, cold, but beautiful.

Great pics, but I'd love to see it in person.

[CJ]

That is badass.