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Friday, November 24, 2017

ROAD TO THE BIG DIPPER PHOTO: YURI BELETSKY

Summer nights at Yellowstone National Park are truly amazing ! You've got to witness beautiful scenery as well as gorgeous night sky. This is one of my images from the park which I obtained back in August. The Big Dipper culminates over the geyser field (one of them is visible far on the foreground) and we were lucky to get a slight hint of aurora ! Would you this road ? To enhance the contrast on the sky I used "Clear sky" filter from Optolong Filter .

I hope you'll enjoy the view
Nikon #D810a

APOLLO 17 AT SHORTY CRATER Image Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA

In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This sharp image was taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the valley floor. The image shows Schmitt on the left with the lunar rover at the edge of Shorty Crater, near the spot where geologist Schmitt discovered orange lunar soil. The Apollo 17 crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil samples, more than was returned from any of the other lunar landing sites. Forty five years later, Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk on the Moon.

VENUS AND JUPITER RISING ABOVE EL TEIDE Taken by Adrien Mauduit on November 23, 2017 @ La Palma, Canarias, Spain

For my last morning on top of El Roque in La Palma, where I slept all night in my car to shoot astrophotography, I woke up to the most pure, eerie and out of this world sight. Not only Venus and Jupiter were rising so bright in the nautical dawn, but it was in the best Earthshine gradient I have witnessed to date, showcasing the purity of the air. Its almost like youre on a plane watching the sunrise! Above all that, I wasnt sure about it at first, but what else that big could rise above the clouds east of La Palma? Canary islands most iconic and highest mountain, El Teide, which is also a volcano. I remember shooting astrophotography there two years ago, so it brought back good memories, and now I saw it from a total different angle!
Sony a7rII + Tamron 300mm, single shot