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Goodbye Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS The below composite image captures the daily movement of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over a 5-day period as it moves away from both the Earth and the Sun. The images were taken with the same panoramic camera at the same time (10 UT) each day and from the same site at Mou...

Mars and giants Image credit & copyright: Steve Johnston. A fog filter was used to enhance Mars and the brighter stars in this image taken from Noojee, Victoria, Australia on 17 December 2022. The bright yellowish hues of Mars dominates the scene in the lower left just above the treeline. Above...

Holy Grail planetary alignment at dawn on 26 June 2022, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Copyright: Steve Johnston IMG_2504-12_sph.JPG A break in the clouds this morning allowed me to capture not only the five naked-eye planets, but to also image Uranus and Nepture, the latter being just a smudge on ...

Moon Halo captures Jupiter & Scorpius Copyright: Steve Johnston IMG_7643_Moon halo.JPG A 22 degree halo around the Moon with Jupiter (lower right) and the majority of Scorpius (top) both inside the halo. Saturn is outside the halo near Jupiter. Taken form Melbourne, Victroria, Australia on 31 J...

Comet SWAN http://www.astrostudio.at/2_Bright%20Comets.php Image and copyright: Gerald Rhemann. https://mk0astronomynow9oh6g.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SWAN-4-May-Gerald-Rhemann-553_2020F8_Mosaic_04_05_1588971006.jpg http://www.astrostudio.at/images/2_Bright%20Comets/thumb2/553_2020F8...

Meteor train Copyright: Steve Johnston IMG_2160.jpg I’ve been going through some older images taken in 2016. The image shows the Milky Way, Saturn-Mars-Antares forming a triangle, green airglow, blue bioluminescence in the surf and in the upper left, a meteor train that I hadn’t noticed until now. ...

Church of the Good Shepherd at night Copyright: Steve Johnston Church_Lake_Tepako.jpg Taken in the early morning of 22 January 2019, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, just prior to waxing gibbous moonset and after the crowds have departed. Canon 6D, 28mm, F2.8, ISO-6400, 20s, 4 image stack to clean up fore...

Moon-Mars conjunction Copyright: Steve Johnston Moon-Mars_conjunction.jpg Taken from Melbourne, Australia on 16 November 2018. Composite image, Canon 6D, Sigma 180m lens, 1/100s F/8 ISO-100 for Moon and 1s f/4 ISO-1600 for Mars, merged and cropped in Photoshop. Closest separation was 1.1° during da...

Total Lunar Eclipse & Mars, Melbourne
Copyright: Steve Johnston A three image panorama taken from the Batman Avenue Bridge, Melbourne, Australia about 15 minutes into the total eclipse phase on 28th July 2018.

Milky Way & Mars, Olympus XZ-1 Copyright: Steve Johnston P7044041-1.2.jpg Taken at Mt Baw Baw Alpine VIllage, Victoria, Australia, 4 July 2018, Olympus XZ-1, 6-24mm at 6mm (EFL 26mm), f/1.8, ISO-1600, 25 sec. The camera has a 1/1.63" CCD sensor which is 1/19th the area of a Canon full fram...

Bass Strait winter nightscape Seven panel mosaic of Milky Way setting over Bass Strait.
Rye ocean beach, Mornington Peninsula National Park, Victoria, Australia earlier this month.

Autumn Milky Way
Copyright: Steve Johnston A single exposure of 20s captures the Milky Way rising over the Alpine National Park to the north of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia on 20 April 2018. Jupiter is in the upper left of the image.

Halley's Comet 1986 Copyright: Steve Johnston Halleys_Comet.jpg Image taken with an Olympus OM-1, 50mm f/1.4 lens, Kodak Ektachrome E6 400 ASA in early 1986 from Harkaway, 40 km southeast of Melbourne, Australia. The original color positive has been scanned and converted to B&W with inverted im...

Southern Summer Sky from Bruny Island Copyright: Steve Johnston IMG_5686-1.jpg Image taken from Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia on 5 January 2018, looking north across D'Entrecasteaux Channel. Foreground cliff is Triassic sandstone, 205-251 million years old, which is relatively you...

2018 Total Lunar Eclipse Over Melbourne Copyright: Steve Johnston Lunar Eclipse_20180131.jpg Multiple exposures taken over 4+ hours using a Canon 5D MkII and 28mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 400, f/5.6 with exposures ranging from 1/4000 second for full moon to 2 seconds at totality. Taken from Murrumbeena Rese...

Thanks Geck. I didn't know about the page-shaped icons.
Steve

My apology in advance if this topic has already been addressed. Why is the default sort order for The Observation Deck ascending, rather than descending, for the current month? If it was descending, it would be easier to view the latest image posted, rather than having to go to the last page button ...

Three planets and a moon
Copyright: Steve JohnstonWaxing crescent moon, Mercury on right, Venus forming a triangle at top and Earth in the field of view.
Noojee, Victoria, Australia, 7 February 2016 at 4.33am AEST.
Canon 5dMkII, 28-105mm, F/3.5, ISO-100, 5 sec exposure.

Sun pillar sunrise
Copyright: Steve Johnston Taken with iPad, Scarborough, Queensland on 1 March 2017.

Moon, Saturn, Mercury
Copyright: Steve Johnston Waxing crescent moon, Saturn (upper right) and Mercury (left).
Taken from Carnegie, Melbourne, Australia, 10.20 UT on 20 November 2017.

Mercury, Saturn and Moon
Copyright: Steve JohnstonAn alignment of Mercury, Saturn and a waxing crescent moon, partly obscured by cloud.
Taken from Melbourne, Australia at 10:13 UT on 21 November 2017.

Southern nightscape
Copyright: Steve JohnstonNoojee, Victoria, Australia, 14 October 2017. Canon 5DMkII, 14mm @ f/2.8, ISO-3200, 20s.

Belt of Venus and Earth's shadow from 30,000 feet
Copyright: Steve Johnston Taken with iPhone 6s enroute from Adelaide, South Australia to Melbourne, Victoria on 5 September 2017

Eyre sculptures at night Copyright: Steve Johnston IMG_4726-1.jpg Edward John Eyre Sculptures, Kimba, South Australia in silhouette against a background of stars. Eyre is credited as the first man to cross the Australian continent from Sydney to Swan River (now Perth) in 1838-41 assisted by indigen...

Southern startrails
Copyright: Steve JohnstonLocation: Wilcherry homestead ruins, northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.