Starship Asterisk*

http://philhart.smugmug.com/Sun/Partial-Solar-Eclipse-29th-April/i-T4xZ3NJ/4/X2/_MG_2266-X2.jpg Partial Eclipse Sunset over Lake Bolac with Mt Abrupt at the southern end of the Grampians (50km away) in western Victoria, Australia. Weather was very challenging today, but armed with the latest comput...

http://philhart.smugmug.com/MoonAndPlanets/Total-Lunar-Eclipse-15th-April-2/i-PDBg7tW/0/X2/Lunar%20Eclipse%20over%20Maryborough%20Station-X2.jpg Lunar Eclipse over Maryborough Railway Station, a grand station for a small regional Victorian town built during the gold rush days. As Mark Twain dryly o...

Milky Way rising over Lake Eppalock in central Victoria, Australia on the morning of Monday 3rd March, 2014. The bright star above centre is Antares, 'rival to Mars'. http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-Photography/Coastal-Lakes-and-Rivers/i-MqPVdQh/1/XL/_MG_8955-XL.jpg Full res and more images: h...

http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-Photography/Rural/i-5KsswnJ/1/M/Listening%20for%20Pulsars%201810-M.jpg The Australian CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope listening for pulsars in the Milky Way, 12th July 2013. Larger versions: http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-Photography/Rural/29434551_tm4MDm#!...

Southern Winter Sky Panorama http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-Photography/Coastal-Lakes-and-Rivers/i-h7V2j7c/2/L/14mm_Dam_Panorama_6439-L.jpg Centre of the Milky Way (Sagittarius) at left, distant lights of Melbourne centre and Magellenic Clouds (due south). Simple panorama of four images, eac...

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Substantially reprocessed for a much cleaner result. High-res video of totality during the 14th November 2012 Total Solar Eclipse, including second and third contact. http://vimeo.com/55189777 Takahashi FS-102 refractor with 1.6x extender (giving 1300mm, f13) with Canon 5D MarkII tracking on EQ6 mou...

Solar Corona Queensland Solar Eclipse 14th November 2012 (UT 13th Nov) http://philhart.com/files/Solar_Corona_Composite_960.jpg Composite of images taken with a William Optics Zenithstar II (545mm, f6.4) and Canon 5D MarkII camera (ISO100), with exposures from 1/90th sec to 2 seconds long. For the o...

More details and larger version: http://philhart.com/content/comet-hunting-march

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More details: http://philhart.com/content/comet-lemmo ... ruary-2013

Image without border/title here: http://philhart.com/files/Comet-Lemmon- ... t-1200.jpg

Enjoy..
thanks
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I have posted this previously, but thought it might appeal to some on its first anniversary having been captured on Valentine's Day, 14th Feb 2012.

More info: http://philhart.com/content/valentines-aurora

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Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes
More images and info: http://philhart.com/content/bioluminesc ... akes-again

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High resolution view of totality with close-ups of second and third contact. A lucky outcome of an image sequence going wrong!

More info: http://philhart.com/content/solar-eclip ... ember-2012

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More details: http://www.philhart.com/content/solar-e ... ember-2012

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Full story and more details: http://philhart.com/content/solar-eclip ... ember-2012

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Telephoto star trail showing the colours of Mars, Saturn and Spica in their lovely conjunction triangle in the evening sky:
Canon 5D mkII, 300mm lens
20 minute exposure, f5.6, ISO100

http://philhart.com/content/conjunction-colours

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Moonrise over Melbourne - Winner of the 2012 David Malin Awards

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http://philhart.com/files/Melbourne_Moon.jpg

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Conjunction over 'The Dish' - the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope:
http://philhart.com/content/conjunction-dish

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These images of Mt Niles in the Canadian Rockies were taken on the night of 7th April, Easter Saturday, one day after Full Moon. The top image is 42 one minute exposures which started during evening twilight. The bottom image is 5 one minute exposures, just as the bright Easter Moon was rising in th...

28th April 2012
Dunnottar Castle in the moonlight, north-east Scotland
Canon 5DmkII, 24mm lens
15 mins, f3.5, ISO100

The Venus and Jupiter Show with special guests Aurora Borealis and the Moon http://vimeo.com/40613573 And here is the video on my website with an explanation of each sequence: http://philhart.com/content/venus-and-jupiter-show This was captured during a nine week adventure in the Yukon in Canada, wh...