Steve Paxton's photos

I was told to expect lightening so I took the lightening trigger. no way you could get this without a lightening trigger. By the time you see it its gone for the camera. The interesting part is I have a almost red version in sunset clouds as well but looks better in the night time.

One of the early settlements that what going to made as the capital but they changed to another place. www.westernaustralia.com/en/Destination/Cossack/56b267a8d5f1565045daad93

I was able to get the whole of the back of the Male so you can see all the markings.

My very first ever attempt of deep space some two years ago was Carina as it is so bight you can see it with your naked eye if you are out of the city light plume. Three consecutive nights of shots in the city light area some with moon light some with no moon. 118 shots 10 min ISO 200 Guided PHD2 Dev3. Shot DSLR Nikon D810 FF using a Skywatcher ED80 telescope In this case it's a 510mm view of the sky above. This was a case of set and let it auto start in SGP each night in the end close to 20 hours of shot time in total. First time all of this has gone without a hitch all in auto mode starting and stopping by itself. Most of this editing was stretching very little colour edit as much as possible as shot. I wanted all the colour that is around the nebula as well as the nebula. Only very small crop to remove stacking artifacts. The detail in this shot is quite staggering will be a very long time it comes down from my computer screen. Please note I went back and looked at the first edit and have redone with what I know in 2024 as a result of a much better photo and still one of my fav shots.

The male is on the bottom while the females sleeps on top under the red heat lamp. Sounds like married life.

A huge view of just how alone you are out in that landscape but I still was not game to stand in the middle of the road for the shot a full 360 degrees of landscape. I stopped to get a photo of one of the huge termite mounds so took this looking to the Karatha landscape Iron hills. The shot does not come with the 43c or the very high humidity the hire car to the right and port Hedland.

We where asked to babysit for a week a male female (Back). feeding is the fun part by the time a week is up we will not have any more Cockroaches out side in the yard.

Pilot is busy even at night I was trying to get the tree the boat moved in the shot by the time I pressed the timer.

The ship are beyond a size we are normally use to seeing In the 40 min we where at the Port 4 ships past us in total. the harbour can hold 17 of the monsters to fill up and turn around.This trip was in the time that Ipernity could not upload.

A trip to Port Hedland for a Birthday. No moving about the plane wear a mask at all times. You can see the site I took a Milky way Bow from 1 hour drive from home right next to the Indian Ocean. Pip 1 @ 2 if you have never see just how green it is in the outback . For two hours the landscape was nothing but barren dry totally Inhospitable place. All these shots where from my phone I was not allowed to get my camera out of the bag.

The Nebula is named as it looks like a Seagull flying with wings both sides of the head. I was looking for a new target to try out while there was no moon and I was able to get two nights cloud free, this is Just below Sirius in the Milky way. We see in Summer its mostly only stars in the bow not a lot of colour or dust clouds. I have added to the shot below all the targets shot this year. This is 8h 20 min worth of shots 10 min each over two nights no moon & no clouds. the starless version may give you the shape better.

How the PIP was taken over three nights.

This is the result Of shooting three nights in a Row with out a moon or clouds. In total 68 shots or 11 1/2 hours shot time I had the trees one side and the house the other so limited my number of shot to 30odd a night. The shots guided with PHD2 Dev3 which proved very good at guiding. For the first time editing done in Pix Insight, Photoshop and Finished out in Light room. This is the Skywatcher ED 80 scope at work with the D810 the extra detail that came out with each night photos added made this worth while. Action shot from the third night.