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Widefield, Star-Trails & Meteor Storms

No telescopes used for these images, just a wide angle lens and an SLR camera. A mixture of longer guided exposures, fixed tripod startrail images, and composite meteor images

Aquarids Meteor Shower, early morning 7 May 2013

A single Aquarid meteor 7 May 2013

Star-trails over Mount Ruapehu

Double Iridium Flare outshines Saturn

The ISS passes over southern New Zealand

Star-Trails over Aurora

3 Hours in the Observatory

Mitre Peak, Fiordland

Central Milky Way

Bluff Habour

Southern Milky Way

Mosaic - Southern Hemisphere Milky Way

Star-trails over the Kaikoura Mountains

Venus over Lake Pukaki

Invercargill Estuary

Bluff Hill

Moon Halo Invercargill Estuary