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Β© Greg Gibbs. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image without my permission. All Rights Reserved.Tasmania, Australia. 20th of May, 2013
After the fog rolled in at the location where I shot my images "Tranquility" and "Iris", and with the dawn hour rapidly approaching, I headed to this sheltered bay and setup up for a time lapse showing the aurora slowly receding over the horizon. This is the first frame from the sequence.
The bright star just above the cloud and being reflected strongly in the water is Canopus the second brightest star in the night sky behind Sirius. The Large (lower) and Small (upper) Magellanic Clouds are above that, and are small satellite galaxies of out own Milky Way. The slightly pinkish bright spot in the band of the Milky Way is the Carina Nebula. A massive star forming region that is brighter and four times bigger that the famous Orion Nebula, but it is much less well known due to its close proximity to the south celestial pole making it not visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
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I hope to see the southern sky some day! It is beautiful! Β You were in the right place! Well done!
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Thank you so much
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You're welcome! Β
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Some day I will to to Australia and see it with my own eyes! Β
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I hope you get a chance soon.
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What Kind of Camera did you use to get the sky with the stars? Its pretty cool
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www.capturingthenight.com/freqβ¦
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The green man, that is just the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Such a magnificent shot 
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Thank you so much mate
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May i ask something? (Stupid yet due to the lack of experience its hard for me to understand it)
I m an amatuer and self learning photographer, just kicking it out there, but it seems i cant snap a photo of the night sky as you do. I mean the milky way at least, and not the visible night sky by the eye.
Any tips?
If you like to share some, otherwise its ok if you dont want.
Thanks in advance for any given anwser!
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I have a blog post here [link] which might point you in the right direction. Keep at it. I'm completely self taught. Practice, practice, practice. That's all I did.
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May i ask something? (stupid yet im lack of experience makes it hard to understand)
Im an amatuer and self learning photgrapher, just kicking it out there, and it seems i have no clue how to snap a photo of the visible night sky as such you do. i mean the milky way at least.
Any tips?
If of course you like to share some, otherwise its ok if you dont want.
Thanks in advance for any given answer.
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Thank you very much
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You're very welcome
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very very nice! what camera did you use on this one?
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This is simply magnificent. I have an interest here and you always know what to put in the notes and why we need that info. You just gave me more information and sheer joy from these notes than a whols semester in astronomy did! Well done! Can I sign up to be a lackey on your next sojourn to Tasmania? lol
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Haha. Thank you very much 
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You are most welcome, Greg. I have now connected all my family, friends and grandchildren to you on Google+, facebook and your site, so stand by! The whole group may follow you to Tasmania or where ever just to see those skies! We all live near major urban areas and have little real view of the Milky Way, meteor showers, etc. Keep up the amazing work you are doing and just know that for those of us somewhat land bound, you are our guide to the universe! Thank you! ...and I wasn't kidding about being a lackey (or participant)if 1 is needed! lol
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What do you mean by "photoshop"? Do I use Photoshop to paste a stolen or computer generated star filled sky image over my own landscape shot like some talentless hack? NO, I do not. I get out there at all hours and generally in very cold conditions and take real photos of real scenes.
Do I use Photoshop (or Lightroom, or Camera Raw, or Digital Photo Professional, or PTGui Pro, or one of the multitude of other image editing programs available) to edit my images. Of course I do. And unless you are using a film camera, you do too. Even if you are just taking a jpeg digital image straight from the camera to your computer, the data has most likely already been edited by your camera and does not represent exactly what you saw with your own eyes.
If I use an image editing program to crop, straighten, White Balance correct, saturate/desaturate, sharpen, apply/remove vignette, adjust exposure or contrast, etc. is that βPhotoshopβ? In my opinion, no. They are standard actions which have been applied by photographers ever since the first picture was developed in a darkroom. Image editing programs like Photoshop are, for me, just a digital darkroom in which I develop my images.
Everything you see in my images is captured by me and my camera and more often than not, in a single exposure. The only exceptions to this are generally my startrail images (where I stack multiple images to show the stars motion across the sky), my solar images (where I do one exposure for the surface of the sun and one exposure for the fainter prominences around the solar limb), my panorama images (where I stitch multiple single images together to capture a larger field of view), and my deep sky images (where I do a number of exposures to improve the signal to noise ratio). When ever I do do multiple images I always declare so in the image description. If I have not mentioned multiple exposures then the shot was all done in a single image.
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calm down i didn't mean to offend you i meant if you use photoshop to do exactly that edit your own photos your pics are great but that response to a simple question scared me away
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My apologies if I came on too strong but the word "Photoshop" has become so ambiguous these days. The word photoshop has come to mean "faking" an image to a lot of people and I get it a lot on my work as most people have no idea what can achieved with a camera at night. I hope you can appreciate that when I see "Is This Photoshop" my first reaction is not "he is just asking me what I use to edit my images".
Anyway now that you have clarified the intention of your remark. As I allude to in my original reply you don't need an expensive program like PS to edit images like this. There are plenty of other cheaper and even free programs which will give you the same result. So to answer your question: No, I didn't use PS to edit this. I only used it to resize for web display at the end of processing.
Thank you for the nice feedback on my work
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thats fine your we both know what i meant by photoshop and i would be disapointed if they were fake or stolen from the web. now that thats all clear i shall continue my watch of your art and favorite the hell otta the
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Bravo! Well said!!! 
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