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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: 25 September 2024 Location New Zealand Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is only a few days from perihelion, and brightening rapidly. This image was taken just a few hours ago (at the time of postin...

The Southern Cross https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Date: 9 February 2024 Location: New Zealand From the South Island of New Zealand, the Southern Cross reaches almost the zenith in the summer sky. This allowed me to bring out a ton of detail and color from this beautiful region of the Milky Way....

Rho Ophiuchi https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Location: New Zealand Date: 2 August 2024 Rho Ophiuchi is easily one of the most spectacular and colorful parts of the night sky, containing everything from dark dust and emission nebulae to globular clusters. Located right next ...

Large Magellanic Cloud https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Location: New Zealand Date: 11th January 2024 The LMC is one of the Milky Way's closest satellite galaxies, at around 163,000 light years away. It can be seen high overhead from southern latitudes as a bright fuzzy patc...

Uluru Milky Way https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: 28 June 2024 Location: Uluru, Australia This image was a difficult one to get, as the national park around Uluru closes at night. Luckily there was a five minute window where it was dark enough to shoot the sky before we...

Window to the Universe https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: 3 June 2024 Location: Lake Pukaki, New Zealand While out shooting the sky a few nights ago, i decided to try photographing a mirror that somehow found its way into my car. The Southern Cross (Crux) and Carina regi...

Aurora Australis and Milky Way www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: 11 May 2024 Location: Glentanner, New Zealand (43 south latitude) On May 11th (NZT) the active sunspot region AR3664 produced the most incredible aurora display I have ever seen. Color was clearly visible to the e...

Jellyfish Aurora https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: Saturday 11th May 2024, NZT Location: Twizel, New Zealand. 44 degrees south latitude The most incredible display of southern lights I’ve ever seen. This image was taken around 9pm during the first flare up of the night....

Reflected Gems of the Zodiac https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Taken: 20 March 2024 Location: Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand For us in the Southern Hemisphere, the zodiacal light is best seen in the morning sky during the March equinox. This image was captured just...

Church under Crux https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Exif: 135mm 30s f/2.0 ISO 6400 (panorama) This image was taken at the iconic church at Lake Tekapo New Zealand, a hotspot for astrophotography in the area. This also meant there were lots of other people shooting at the same...

Rainbow Sky https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: 13 January 2024 (NZT) Location: Twizel, New Zealand During the summer months in New Zealand, lavender farms all across the country come to life with beautiful rows of the purple flowers. I happened to find one such farm deep...

Starry Lavender Field https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood The Summer (in the Southern Hemisphere) Milky Way, over a field of blooming lavender in New Zealand. On this night there was also a strong display of colorful airglow that surrounded the sky. Note the iconic constellatio...

Road to the Milky Way https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood https://i.ibb.co/Gn2dDhW/road-500k.jpg Image date: 12 June 2023 This image was captured in New Zealand's Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, under one of the darkest night skies on earth. I was out imaging t...

A Ring of Fire https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Date: 8th August 2023, shortly after nightfall (7:30pm) Location: Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand This image was a full sky panorama, capturing bright waves of orange airglow, the zodiacal light, and the southern w...

Southern Observatory instagram: https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood Taken 13th December 2023. The Magellanic Clouds and southern Milky Way under an observatory in New Zealand. Using a modified camera you can reveal the fain colors of the gum nebula, in the constellations carina...

Southern Nebulae over Lupine field https://www.instagram.com/max.nti/ Copyright: Max Inwood This image was captured in the early hours of the morning (9 Dec 2023) at Lake Tekapo in New Zealand. Specifically at the Church of the Good Shepherd. In early summer, Lake Tekapo is famous for its Lupine fl...