Starship Asterisk*

Zodiacal light, outback Australia Copyright: Steve Johnston IMG_4834.jpg Zodiacal light from Wilcherry homestead ruins, northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. The image shows the Milky Way and Canopus to the left of the ruins, and to the right, the cone shaped zodiacal light during the last stag...

Galactic core, meteor and Venus
Copyright: Steve Johnston Taken from Cape Conran, Victoria, Australia on 2 October 2013.
Single 60s exposure on tracking mount,14mm f/2.8, IO-1600.

Aurora Australis from 38 degrees south Taken from Noojee, Victoria, Australia on 22 April 2017

Emu rising over Waratah Bay Copyright: Steve Johnston A mosaic of 63 images taken from Walkerville South, Victoria, Australia on 4 April 2016. The image shows Jupiter in upper left, the Magellanic Clouds in upper right, Mars and Saturn forming a triangle with Antares in the lower centre, the green ...

Startrails and ISS Copyright: Steve Johnston Taken at Cape Schanck, Victoria, Australia on 7 January 2017. Waxing gibbous moonset (70% full) provides pleasing foreground illumination despite washing out the sky. Canon 5DMkII, 14mm @ f/2.8, ISO-1600, stack of 62 x 19s exposures. Cape_Schanck_startra...

Aurora Australis, stars, clouds & moonlight
Taken from Killora, Bruny Island, Tasmania on 18 January 2017. A battle to catch the southern lights (Kp ~3.5) with heavy cloud and light from a waning gibbous moonrise! Canon 5D MkII, 14mm f/2.8, single exposure 25s, ISO-3200.

Southern Tasmanian Nightscape
Taken from Coal Point looking across Adventure Bay to Fluted Cape, Bruny Island, Tasmania on 16 January 2017.
14mm f/2.8, panorama of 5 x 20s portrait images, ISO-2000. Waning gibbous moornrise at left and Southern Cross (Crux) in upper image centre.

Moon and Regulus The forecast for 19 December 2016 was for a grazing occultation of Regulus (Alpha Leonis) by the Moon for Melbourne, Australia at approximately 5.20am AEST. Regulus just below moon near terminator. Single exposure, 1/60s, ISO-125, 500mm lens at f/8, Canon 60D (EFL 800mm). Copyright...

Lighthouse, planets & stars at dusk
Taken at Cape LIptrap, Victoria, Australia on 30 October 2016
Single exposure, Canon 60Da, 14mm f/5.6, 25s, ISO-400 taken during a brief window in rapidly closing cloud cover.
Venus and Saturn left of image center. Scorpius in upper image center.

Venus, Saturn, Antares at Dusk Taken at Walkerville, Victoria, Australia on 29 October 2016 Single exposure, Canon 60Da, 14mm f/2.8, 20s, ISO-3200 Venus extremely bloated, however, star bloat highlights Scorpius nicely. Alpha Centauri-B and Hadar (The Pointers) on image left point to Crux (Southern...

Colours of Antares, Venus and Saturn
27 October 2016, Melbourne, Australia
Copyright: Steve Johnston

Moon-Jupiter Conjunction, Melbourne, Australia, May 15
Copyright: Steve Johnston Composite image, Canon 60Da, Flexar 500mm f/8 manual lens, 1/100s ISO-320 for Moon and 1/2s ISO-800 for Jupiter

Aurora, galaxies, meteors and satellites Aurora_Bruny Island.JPG Composite of 4 x 30s images taken from Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia on 8th January 2016. Base image of aurora and sky is a single image - composite adds brightest meteors only. Aurora colors not visible to naked eye, although the...

Venus & Jupiter conjunction from Gipsy Point, Victoria
Copyright: Steve Johnston

Scorpius rising The milky way centered on Scorpius rising. Saturn also visible in image left. Trestle bridge in foreground is a former steam train bridge, rebuilt in 1939 after it was destroyed by fire in the same year. Moonrise followed a short time later. Image taken with Canon 5DMkII and 14mm Sa...

Southern winter solstice The galactic core within a few hours of the southern winter solstice on 22 June 2014. Antares is in the centre of the field of view. The bright horizon is light pollution from Melbourne, 90 km to the west. Image taken with Canon 60Da, Samyang 14mm lens at f2.8 from Noojee, ...