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Night On The Ridge http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7542/15778635132_1e6ba33c0a.jpg Night On The Ridge by markg , on Flickr I shot on the west coast of Wellington, New Zealand as the galactic core of the Milky Way was beginning to dip towards the horizon. ...

AR 2192 http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3945/15444719860_80b67ff62e.jpg AR 2192 by markg , on Flickr 26 Oct 2014 - the end of another day as the sun sets to the west of Wellington, New Zealand. It's been quite an active period lately for our Sun, and a ma...

Solar Silhouettes http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5557/15014600960_a9826d4366.jpg Solar Silhouettes by markg , on Flickr Everyone loves a sunset photo, but this one is a little different to the regular sunset photos you see. I shot this one evening as the...

Night Streaker http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3840/15170899665_c2356a196a.jpg Night Streaker by markg , on Flickr I headed out to the Wellington South Coast in New Zealand to attempt to capture some of the recent aurora activity. The aurora wasn't visibl...

LMC and I http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3895/14964755931_57b20215f9.jpg The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of my favourite night sky object viewable from the Southern Hemisphere. At a distance of 163,000 light years from earth LMC is considered an irregu...

Supermoon Over Cape Palliser http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3892/14692748278_d687444286.jpg Supermoon Over Cape Palliser by markg , on Flickr They call it the Supermoon, although it's not much bigger than a regular full moon, but I won't argue with that....

Galactic Pearl http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5583/14836188883_f83eaff575.jpg Galactic Pearl by Mark Gee , on Flickr This is a 360 degree pano taken from atop Castle Rock at Castlepoint in the Wairarapa, New Zealand. I made the climb under darkness, whic...

Celestial Drive http://artofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3919/14626556236_3393eb8f9b.jpg Celestial Drive by markg , on Flickr I drove out to the back country area above Hanmer Springs on the South Island of New Zealand to capture this 360 degree seamless pano of the ...

Universal Bonding http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3877/14610178993_91cdb76996.jpg Universal Bonding by markg , on Flickr It was a short road trip to New Zealand's South Island with my son that was only 4 days long. We did a lot of driving and exploring th...

Kiwi On The Mountain http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3838/14403491098_1291c41198.jpg Kiwi On The Mountain by markg , on Flickr The Kiwi is a long beaked, flightless, nocturnal bird from New Zealand, but it can also be seen in the night sky - The Milky Way...

The Stars Above And The Fog Below
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The Stars Above And The Fog Below by markg, on Flickr

Yoga By The Honey moon
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Yoga By The Honey Moon by markg<<, on Flickr

Sunspots at Sunrise
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Sunspots over the Rimutakas by markg<<, on Flickr

International Dark Sky Week 2014 has begun and as my contribution to the week, I've put together this short video.

Feel free to share and spread the word about light pollution.

Camping Under The Stars Copyright: Mark Gee http://theartofnight.com http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/12941648295_cd183a9f30_c.jpg It's a simple thing that people have been doing since the beginning of mankind, an open camp fire miles away from anywhere with just you and the stars above. It's som...

Rising Star Byron - sunrise from the most easterly point of the Australian mainland.

Guiding Light to the Stars 360 http://theartofnight.com Copyright: Mark Gee http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2886/11015074103_84461b2a1e_b.jpg Photographed at Cape Palliser on the North Island of New Zealand, the featured astronomical objects in this 360 degree seamless pano are: the The Milky Way, th...

http://vimeo.com/72533613 The Art of Night is a short film of highlights from my astrophotography journey. It contains imagery from when I first seriously started photographing the night sky until now. Images, time-lapse and video were shot over a period of three years around the Wellington region ...

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3690/9339974357_6c3f209074_o.jpg 21st July 2013 - A moon halo forms over the north western coast of the island of Moorea in French Polynesia. Moon halos are formed when light refracts through high altitude tiny ice crystals. The crystals have to be oriented and positio...

Road to Rainbow Galaxy This image was shot in one of my favorite 'dark sky' locations at Cape Palliser on the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand. This panorama covers almost 360 degrees horizontally, and is made up of 28 individual shots, giving an overall image size of over 275 megapixels. ...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8095/8539348961_7e6eb8a832_o.jpg 2.38am and the Milky Way rises high above Wellington's South Coast in New Zealand. The single bright light on the horizon under the Milky Way is the Baring Head Lighthouse. The glow of Wellington and the coastal suburbs of Owhiro Bay an...

First time poster here, but thought I'd start with this video I shot last night. It's real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon rising. I captured the video from 2.1...