iangriffin

iangriffin, 9 months ago to Astronomy

Thanks to a collaboration with my friend Stephen Voss, we present this composite image, taken over 3 nights last week. With Dunedin's Mount Cargill Tower as foreground, It shows the change in altitude of the sun over 3 nights caused by Earth's axial tilt and our motion around our parent star. It also shows the rotation of the sun over 3 Earth days (look at the sunspots and how they change position). Photos by me, processing by Stephen Voss. I love collaborations! #astronomy #NewZealand #sunset

iangriffin, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Astronomy

I've bloody well done it again! YUS! One year, every evening at 4pm (winter) 5pm (summer). A 20 second exposure through a pinhole camera, on a glass plate. I've captured the Analemma again! #analemma #astronomy #beauty

iangriffin, 2 days ago to random

Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink #savethesky

iangriffin, 4 months ago to NewZealand

OK... drumroll... In the run up to midnight on New Year's Eve here in Aotearoa, here's #1 in #ianstop102023 Literally the most beautiful moment of the year. A night I will never forget when I told Mrs. G at sunset "see you in a couple of hours" and ended up coming home after sunrise after a gobsmackingly beautiful aurora show. For 10 seconds at 01:41 on 28th February 2023 my heart sang. Let's hope everyone's heart sings in 2024! Happy New Year Everyone! #beauty #aurora #NewZealand

iangriffin, 11 months ago to NewZealand

Just because I have nearly 4000 images taken during Friday night's auroral display, I keep going back to look at them. Here's a 6 second exposure taken at 23:09 local time here in New Zealand. The sky was ablaze! #aurora #beauty #newzealand

iangriffin, 5 months ago to NewZealand

Simply astonishing night of aurora here in the Deep South of New Zealand. Best display I have ever seen since moving here! Epic #aurora #beauty #NewZealand

iangriffin, 1 year ago to random

So here it is. My first ever 8x10 pinhole camera image taken on an. ISO glass plate yesterday for world pinhole photography day. This is a 4 hour exposure of the sun's path on 30th April 2023 as seen from my deck in Portobello Dunedin New Zealand. Developed under a safelight using adonal at a 1:50 dilution. #pinholephotography #NewZealand

iangriffin, 5 months ago to random

Here’s some timelapse video from last night’s display of the Aurora Australis as seen from the Otago Peninsula in southern New Zealand #aurora #beauty #auroraausttalis

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iangriffin, 23 days ago to Astronomy

Bloody Elon Musk is destroying the night sky. This is a single one minute exposure of Comet Pons Brooks tonight. #muskisscum #notostarlink #starlinksucks #savethenight #astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

3 years ago today I flew into an auroral storm in the southern auroral oval on board an Air Nz air liner. Here’s a timelapse taken from the flight deck #aurora #auroraaustralis

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iangriffin, 5 months ago to NewZealand

So here's what happens when you "unfisheye" a picture of a coronal aurora taken through a fisheye lens. Taken at 1:23am on 2nd December from the Otago Peninsula #aurora #auroraustralis #NewZealand

iangriffin, 1 year ago to space

Another shot from one of my SOFIA flights. This was 22nd July 2019, shot thousands of Km south of NZ. I was lucky enough to be in the flight deck as we flew beneath an auroral substorm. Apols for the low quality but this was hand held! #aurora #Auroraaustralis #astronomy

iangriffin, 15 days ago to NewZealand

There are moments when you have to say, Mother nature is awesome. One such moment occurred at Lake Aviemore last night at 02:25:45. This is three five second exposures combined to make a panorama. WOW! #aurora #auroraaustralis #beauty #NewZealand

iangriffin, 16 days ago to NewZealand

If the sky is dark where you are GO OUT NOW AND WATCH AN AMAZING AURORA!!! Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere get out now! Clouds marred the view before dawn at Hoopers Inlet in Dunedin NZ but the aurora was still incredible! #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand

iangriffin, 23 days ago to Astronomy

So.. i managed to median exclude the satellites and here's a picture of comet Pons Brooks taken tonight from New Zealand! #comet #ponsbrooks #Astronomy

iangriffin, 4 months ago to Astronomy

Time for #4 in #ianstop102023 This is a montage of 12 images taken in under 0.8 seconds on 9th January 2023. I drove for 100km, set up a telescope and managed to record the International Space Station crossing the spotty sun in less time than it took for my heart to beat once! #astronomy #sun #spacestation

iangriffin, 5 months ago to Astronomy

I just can't keep looking at images I took during the auroral display of 1/2 December from my home on the Otago Peninsula. Look at the exquisite detail in this one, which is a 2 second exposure at 01:25 on the 2nd Dec. #astronomy #aurora #auroraaustralis

iangriffin, 5 months ago to NewZealand

The nights when the southern cross reflects perfectly from Hoopers Inlet while a pastel aurora gently does its thing in the background ARE THE BEST NIGHTS. That is all. #beauty #auroraaustralis #NewZealand

iangriffin, 11 months ago to Astronomy

i absolutely love where I live. 5 minutes drive from my house is a brilliant inlet that has hills to shield me from the southerly wind while the aurora does it's thing in the south. Here's a picture from tonight's display. Dunedin is, by far, the best city in the world. #aurora #beauty #astronomy

iangriffin, 8 months ago to NewZealand

Ok this is a bit of a bodge but I made a timelapse of last night's moonrise showing the atmospheric refraction and the omega moon! it's pretty cool despite the compression! #moon #moonrise #NewZealand

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iangriffin, 8 months ago to NewZealand

Another picture of this mornings blue supermoon setting over Ōtepoti Dunedin in New Zealand #moon #bluemoon #supermoon #DunedinNZ #NewZealand

iangriffin, 7 months ago to Astronomy

This was taken at 21:35 last night (21st Oct) during astronomical twilight from Hoopers Inlet. Sony A7S2 camera with canon 16-35mm f/2.8 lens ISO 3200. Some nice colur from the twilight and the sunlight still illuminating the high beams making them look lovely! #astronomy #NewZealand #aurora #auroraaustralis

iangriffin, 7 months ago to NewZealand

The night of 28th February 2023 was filled by an awesome aurora which just kept delighting those of us lucky enough to be watching. This panorama was taken at 1:19am. It is easy on nights like this to see why local Iwi Kai Tahi call the aurora "Ngā kahukura o hinenuitepō" which translates to the rainbow of the goddess of the night" What a night! #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand

iangriffin, 8 months ago to Astronomy

The attraction of refraction can be a distraction.The work in progress continues. A few frames from the epic moonrise last Thursday night (31st August). As the moon rose over the southern ocean, Earth's atmosphere beguiled and fascinated. Light from the moon journeyed a complex path to my eyes and it was amazing! #moon #refraction #astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 13 days ago to NewZealand

One of the truly remarkable things about "The Mother's Day Aurora" was that, here in New Zealand, we tend to see the aurora low in the southern sky. Not this time! This was the view looking NORTH at 7:58pm! The whole sky was green! #aurora #NewZealand #beauty