Steve Paxton's photos

Scouting for locations to view the Milky way. One of the family has just bought a 250 acres farm out in the wheat belt.

Scouting for locations to view the Milky way. One of the family has just bought a 250 acres farm out in the wheat belt.

Take II Night sky ISO 400 4 Min tracked Ground ISO 400 4 min Untracked with LLL. 30 min in Photo shop Look forward to the next . I think a very worth while tool in my night sky. is the shot from same spot with 600mm lens.

150-600 mm lens on the tracker. the new way of finding South I got a 1 min shot here is 50 min Of shot time with all the Back files as well. I am finally quite happy to go out at night and take photos. I was not able to use the Laser pointer as we had French photographers who came to WA to enjoy our night skies. It took me 4 shot at 150 mm to find them. Enjoy. PIP is the milky way view find the Nebula's or look at the next photo.

This photo is two 4 Minute ground exposure Untracked. ISO 3200 4 Minute sky exposure Tracked for more detail of the stars & Milky Way. ISO 800 And as a total beginner 2 hours in photo shop as a trial to see if it is worth doing this in future. Your thoughts is the effort worth it ????

I stayed past the time of moon rise to capture the moon as it rose through the tree but I found this that is better.

close up of the snake

Not quite happy with the way the shot came out more learning.

4 min shot time

40 sec shot time Note is the next do Trifid nebula

40 sec shot time. The Cats Paw Nebula @600mm

For the last 12 days the clock has turned back 40 years. The great grand son was in the house. any thing I did he was there anything great grand Ma did he was there. He will be missed been great Fun....

This home always fascinated me the owners never tried to hide the past life of the building.

Commonly known as the saltwater paperbark. Not one year old and getting some very nice shape. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_cuticularis

Looking back through last months photos I found this shot I did not see. In all my years taking photos at this spot I have never been this lucky. Trucks are always a problem at night as they head West along the highway below the Rocks. there high beams are so strong they ruin a shot as they come up the straight to these rocks then turn North. how lucky can you get the Rock is Perfectly lit from behind.

I set out to find my limits for single shots tracked I started with 20 sec then worked up to 1 min by 10 sec intervals. So I stayed within the trees so I had a reference point. 40 sec looks ok as long as you dont look at the trees very close I believe 30 sec is the real limit but still not as crisp as a static 20 sec shot in truth. Any thoughts ???

This will give you an Idea how this method really does work, why its worth thinking outside the square. Remember I can not see these with my eyes just on the camera sensor. A 9 min shot to get the stars to trail around the pole. A real world photo of the same areas detailing the parts .