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23.01.2022 A trillion stars race toward us at 110km per second. This is the Andromeda Galaxy, it’s a galaxy larger than our own with around five times more stars than our own and the entire galaxy is on a direct collision course with our own Milky Way galaxy. While none of us here on Earth today will witness the collision, billions of years in the future, the amazing fact is when both galaxies do collide there is almost no chance that any stars will collide, the galaxies will simply pas...s through each other. Think about that for a moment, a galaxy with a trillion stars will collide with a galaxy of about 250 billion stars yet the distance between stars in any galaxy is so vast the possibility that any stars will collide is extremely remote, amazing! As the collision occurs both galaxies will be greatly disturbed by each others gravitational fields and the distinct spiral shapes of both galaxies will be immensely distorted. Now get this this image was taken with a 20 year old Canon 350D spectrally modified and cooled. Tech Details: Cooled and modified Canon 350D with Canon L series 70-200mm USM II lens set to 200mm f4.5 all riding on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Exposure was 60x3mins ISO800. Location. Edge of Australia’s National Dark Sky Park, near Coonabarabran Australia. #australiannightsky #astronomy #space #astrophotography #universetoday #astro #nasa #cosmos #nightphotography #photopills #nightphotography_exclusive #photographingspace #celestial_swag #night_excl #nightphotography #milkyway #milkywaychasers #nightsky #astrophoto #stars #apod #bintelastronomy

22.01.2022 Merry Christmas from Paul and Sylvia at The Australian Night Sky - Gallery and Frame Shop. We wish you a safe and happy Christmas and we thank you all for your patronage throughout the year. We love reading your comments on each of the astronomical photographs we take as we show you the universe through the eyes of our pro telescopes and camera equipment. Thank you to all our customers who have ventured to our web site and purchased our professionally framed photography, your support is truly appreciated. The photo is one of our latest, a close up of the famous Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula silhouetted against glowing red nebula in the background. Enjoy.

18.01.2022 Our latest photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) reveals the halo of warm ionized gas surrounding the LMC. Yay! The LMC is one of two satellite galaxies that orbit our own galaxy both of which can be seen visually in the southern night sky appearing as two faint clouds. These clouds are known as the Magellanic Clouds, they are primordial irregular shaped galaxies distorted by the gravitational tidal forces of our own much larger galaxy. Tech: Canon 6D full spectrum, 70-...200mm f/4 L series set to 100mm, 20 x 180 second exposures ISO1600, Sky Watcher Star Adventurer mount. #australiannightsky #astronomy #space #astrophotography #universe #universetoday #astro #nasa #cosmos #nightphotography #photopills #nightphotography_exclusive #photographingspace #celestial_swag #night_excl #nightphotography #milkyway #nightsky @universetoday #amazing #astrophoto #stars #skywatcheraustralia #staradventurer #astrophotography

14.01.2022 12,000 times bigger than our solar system is the Orion Nebula pictured here in our latest photograph with the Running Man nebula (left). It’s a stellar nursery where new stars are being formed on a massive scale. At 1,344 light years distance it is one of the closest and most studied regions of star formation. And what a great way to test out our camera just modified, the Canon 6D Mk 1 with it’s full frame sensor. Tech Details: 12-inch f/5 Newtonian telescope, Losmandy G-11 Mount, Canon 6D modified, 1hr 15min exposure (25x180sec ISO1600). #australiannightsky #astronomy #space #astrophotography #universetoday #astro #nasa #cosmos #nightphotography #photopills #nightphotography_exclusive #photographingspace #celestial_swag #night_excl #nightphotography #nightsky #astrophoto #stars #apod #bintelastronomy

09.01.2022 One of the most popular questions I’ve been asked is what’s the most distant thing you’ve seen through your telescope?". Given that the most distant objects in the universe are unimaginably distant they don’t make the most photogenic subjects and are not usually on my to do list, however this photograph that I did a few weeks back shows something extraordinarily distant. The circled area looks like a group of stars however it’s actually a cluster of galaxies far in the bac...kground. The cluster of galaxies is known only as CL0053-37 and has a measured distance of 2.1 Billion light years. Yes 2.1 billion! To put that in perspective, to get there you would have to travel 300,000 kilometers every second for 2,100 million years and the really annoying thing would be is that once you arrived you would find the group of galaxies have been moving further away at the rate of 45,000 kilometers per second for every second it took for you get to there as they get carried along with the expansion of the universe. The large galaxy is NGC300 and the image taken with our 12-inch astrographic telescope.

01.01.2022 Perhaps the most colorful region of our galaxy is this region, featuring the Blue Horsehead nebula (left) and the Rho Ophicius nebula (right). At less than 450 light years distance these star forming molecular clouds are not only visually spectacular they are also very hot and range in temperature from 3,000 to 22,000 degrees Celsius, wow! who knew? Location. Warrumbungles Dark Sky Park, Australia. Canon 6D mounted on Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Exposure (47 x 90sec ISO6400...). Canon L series 70-200mm USM II lens @ 147mm f/4. #australiannightsky #astronomy #astrobin #space #universe #universetoday #astro #natgeospace #nasa #interstellar #cosmos #outerspace #night #photopills #nightphotography_exclusive #photographingspace #celestial_swag #telescope #night_excl #nightphotography #milkyway #milkywaychasers #galaxy #skywatcheraustralia #bintelastronomy