The Doghouse

The Doghouse, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

Where I have spent hundreds of hours since it was built in 2003. I can claim to have spent a "night in the "doghouse" and enjoyed it!

Most of my astrophotographs are taken here, under the dark skies of eastern Maine. A last holdout from the creeping malaise of lights.

Pentax 67, 75mm f/4.5 TAKUMAR, Superia 100 CN

The Northern Milky Way

The Northern Milky Way, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

Assembled from a sequence of four 60 minute exposures in September 2011, this panorama extends from Scutum through Aquila and Cygnus, to Cepheus.

A pentax 67 with 105mm lens captured each panel on one night. The camera rode atop an equatorially mounted telescope while I hand guided and watched for aircraft, capping the lens and noting the additional time needed for equal exposure time of each frame.

Assembled successfully here for the first time in preparation for a very large print to be exhibited at a local museum.

Legacy Astrophotography: Northern Aquila

Legacy Astrophotography: Northern Aquila, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

Film is still a valid form of astrophotography although few practice it.

The summer season will soon be upon us and target like this area in northern Aquila surrender their beauty to the lens

From September 4, 2011

165MM @ F/4.8 60 minutes exposure, medium format

Ektachrome Blue on The Rocks

Ektachrome Blue on The Rocks, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

For the love of Ektachrome

and moonlight

and millions years old granite

and starlight

Lost between heaven and earth.

Enter 2013. There is still work to do... with film.

Moonlight Exhibit

Moonlight Exhibit, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

My first solo show. If you find yourself in Southwest Harbor Maine during December, please stop in for a look.  If not, check out the link below to see the 12 images!

Moonlight Exhibit on Facebook

Enjoying the Day

The Breakup of a Gray Day, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

The Sun breaks through after a gray morning.

There is more astrophotography to come, indeed I have two rolls to scan of what appears to be successful images. I've been indulging in some daytime landscapes. Fortunately the Pentax 67 doubles as a fantastic landscape camera!

Peace.

Sh2-27 with Iridium Flare

Sh2-27 with Iridium Flare, a photo by Nightfly Photography on Flickr.

Sharpless 2-27 is very large nebula centered around Zeta Ophiuchi. Very difficult to photograph due to its size and brightness, it is over twenty Moon diameters wide and very faint. Film and detectors well equipped for Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha) imaging reveal it best. I consider it one of the greatest objects in the Milky Way.

Located on the Milky Way's border in Southern Ophiuchus and partially overlapping into northern Scorpius.

Pentax 67 with SMC 200MM F/4 @ F/5.6 60 minutes expose on Kodak E200 transparency film.

Eastern Maine has dark night skies.