Church Bay’s Cosmic Cathedral

The Milky Way as seen from just above Church Bay, at Weaver Point, in Co. Cork. This was last night, a few minutes after the moon had set. Unfortunately, the centre of the galaxy was hidden behind a bank of clouds at the horizon. The forecast said there would be about 30% cloud, but thankfully it mostly didn’t cover most of the galaxy.

The best time to see the centre of the Milky Way again from Ireland will be in March 2026. However, you’ll still be able to shoot the less bright celestial arms once the moon has set for a good few weeks, probably.

I recommend using Sun Surveyor to plan a Milky Way shot. Photopills is good too, but the street view integration in Sun Surveyor is difficult to beat.

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Making the most of the new moon, and an unexpectedly clear sky (we had been expecting 30-50 percent cloud), I experimented with using the wide-angle lens of the #Dwarf3. This links to a lower resolution sensor, but the results of a 1 hour exposure were very pleasing.

This is part of the #MilkyWay - around #Saggitarius , and looked at the #GalacticCore . Sadly the massive dust clouds prevent us from seeing the core itself. Or at least in visible light. The #GLEAMsurvey created a stunning multiband view of the core in the radio spectrum, and that is quite something.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography

Milky Way Core as Seen From Harkers Island North Carolina fine art print.

Cape Lookout National Seashore, the first Dark Sky Park on the US East Coast.

Get it at https://bob-decker.pixels.com/featured/milky-way-core-as-seen-from-harkers-island-north-carolina-bob-decker.html

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RT @five15design
Completed all 3 #GalacticCore images from the recent bonkers #Aurora

Never had an Aurora so large it's encroached on the Milky Way, but over a 4hr period I stopped shooting the southern lights & composed these images

@NikonUSA z7ii 20mm f/1.8 S #NZ @PureNewZealand @NZGeographic
https://twitter.com/five15design/status/1631464615426289664

This is my slightly creepy digital painting "Galactic blue eye", showing a logarithmic view out from a star cluster through a bluish galactic core and out to the far edge of the galaxy.

#art #MastoArt #spaceart #digitalart #painting #digitalpainting #stars #galaxy #starcluster #galacticcore

This is my painting "Galactic eye", a logarithmic view of a star cluster at the heart of a galaxy, zooming out into the core and the diffuse disk, a great golden eye of space.

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #painting #digitalpainting #spaceart #stars #galaxy #starcluster #galacticcore