Category: Astronomy

Views of the sun, moon, and stars

Five-Years Ago (11-July-2010) — New Jersey

Backyard Nighttime Sky Over New Jersey.

Waxing Gibbous Moon (85%). Summer Night in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 500 mm f/4 VR lens + TC-E III 20 teleconverter (ISO 800, 1000 mm, f/8, 1/200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6, Nik Define 2, and Photoshop CS5.

Waxing Gibbous Moon (85%). Summer Night in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D3s and 500 mm f/4 VR lens + TC-E III 20 teleconverter (ISO 800, 1000 mm, f/8, 1/200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6, Nik Define 2, and Photoshop CS5 (David J Mathre)
Waxing Gibbous Moon (85%). Summer Night in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D3s and 500 mm f/4 VR lens + TC-E III 20 teleconverter (ISO 800, 1000 mm, f/8, 1/200 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro 6, Nik Define 2, and Photoshop CS5 (David J Mathre)

Five-Years Ago (10-July-2010) — New Jersey

Backyard Nighttime Summer Sky Over New Jersey.

Star, Moon, Jet, and Firefly Trails. Composite of 980 images taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 14 mm f/2.8D lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/4, 8 sec). Raw images processed using PhotoShop CC and Startrails.exe

Star, Moon, Jet, and Firefly Trails. Summer Night in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D3x and 14 mm f/2.8D lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/4, 8 sec). Composite of 980 images combined using the Startrails program. (David J Mathre)
Star, Moon, Jet, and Firefly Trails. Summer Night in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D3x and 14 mm f/2.8D lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/4, 8 sec). Composite of 980 images combined using the Startrails program. (David J Mathre)

One-Year Ago (24-May-2015) — New Jersey

Backyard Springtime Night Sky Over New Jersey.

Startrails Looking South From My Backyard in New Jersey. Composite of 400 images taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 14 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/2.8, 30 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Photoshop CC. In the past I used the startrails.exe program to process the images. This time I made the composite using Scripts/Statistics Stack Mode = Maximum within Photoshop CC 2015.

Startrails Looking South From My Backyard in New Jersey. Composite of 400 images taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 14 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/2.8, 30 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Photoshop CC. In the past I used Startrails.exe to process the images. This time I made the composite using Scripts/Statistics Stack Mode = Maximum within Photoshop CC 2015. (David J Mathre)
Startrails Looking South From My Backyard in New Jersey. Composite of 400 images taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 14 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/2.8, 30 sec). (David J Mathre)

Thursday (19-May-2016) — New Jersey

Backyard Springtime Night Sky Over New Jersey.

Waxing Gibbous – Nearly Full Moon Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/16, 1/125 sec). Handheld using the lens optical image stabilization (OIS).

Waxing gibbous (nearly full) moon. Backyard night sky in New Jersey. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/16, 1/125 sec). (David J Mathre)
Waxing gibbous (nearly full) moon. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/16, 1/125 sec). (David J Mathre)

Monday (14-March-2016) — At Sea, Indian Ocean

Gone to See the World. Semester at Sea Spring 2016 Voyage on the MV World Odyssey. Day 69: At Sea, Indian Ocean.

Evil Eyes or the Devil at Sunrise. From the Deck of the MV World Odyssey transiting the Indian Ocean. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 121 mm, f/8, 1/125 sec).

Evil Eyes or the Devil at Sunrise. From the Deck of the MV World Odyssey over the Indian Ocean. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 121 mm, f/8, 1/125 sec). (David J Mathre)
Evil Eyes or the Devil at Sunrise. From the Deck of the MV World Odyssey transiting the Indian Ocean. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 121 mm, f/8, 1/125 sec). (David J Mathre)