Welcome to LMC. The Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregular dwarf galaxy which can be seen with the naked eye as a “fuzzy blob” within New Zealand’s circumpolar region. The easiest way to find the galaxy is to draw an […]
Welcome to LMC. The Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregular dwarf galaxy which can be seen with the naked eye as a “fuzzy blob” within New Zealand’s circumpolar region. The easiest way to find the galaxy is to draw an […]
A moody shot of the mountains over lake Pukaki, after a fresh dusting of snow. Taken 11 November 2018 ♠️ #sonya7ii ♥️ #sony70200f4 ♣️ #Sirui 0.9 soft GND ♦️ 1/320sec f/9 ISO200 182mm #Josephpooleyphoto Source
This is an image I’ve been pretty excited about posting, however I ended up re-processing it several times to get the panorama to stitch just how I wanted. I’m really pleased with the end result and may have to hang […]
This is an example of an interesting micro weather pattern I’ve noticed since moving to Lake Tekapo. During the day the clouds often cling to the mountain tops on the eastern side of the village, then spilling into Tekapo saddle […]
“Virgin sands” untouched ripples in the sand dunes of Wharariki beach, with the archway islands just off shore. Take me back there any day! 😍 ♣️ #Sony A7ii ♥️ Sony #Zeiss 16-35mm f4 ♠️ #Hoya UVC lens filter. ♦️ 1/60sec […]
Now that I’m living in abundance of dark skies, I’ve had another chance to dabble in a bit of deep sky astrophotography. This bright and colourful object is NGC 3372. More commonly known as The Carina Nebula, being associated with […]
“Not a bad view from the office!” Monday night we had a special treat while working up at the Mt John summit. The aurora australis put on a beautiful display peaking between 1230-1am at roughly KP6. How lucky we were! […]
Throwing back to the second to last day of 2017. Golden hour at the top of New Chum beach lookout. This is by far my favorite place on the Coromandel peninsula. The sunset that followed was also one of the […]