Animation: Début de soirée Australe -- Southern Early evening (Harold Freckhaus)

Animation: Début de soirée Australe -- Southern Early evening

Sur l'Ile de la Réunion, à cette période de l'année et en début de soirée, pendant deux heures (21h-23h) l'éclairage public est éteint (lié à la protection des Pétrels Noirs de Bourbon).

J'en ai profité pour prendre en time-lapse le levé de Voie Lactée ... malgré quelques nuages qui amène un peu de vie supplémentaire dans cette animation qui retrace environ 20 mn de rotation terrestre.

Le rendu "Boule à Neige" c'est pour le côté "souvenir australe"

… dommage que le GIF détruise le ciel étoilé

. C'est mieux en regardant la photo agrandie

Au centre, on peut reconnaitre La Croix du Sud, Le sac de Charbon, la zone de la Carène, Les Pleiades du Sud, ...

Construction: 15 photos - 1600ISO à 2500ISO - 8mm - F/4 - 30s de pause

On Reunion island, at this season, at evening flow and for two hours (21h-23h) the public lighting is off (relative to Bourbon Black Petrels protection).

I used this opportunity to take a time-lapse of arising Milky Way... despite some clouds that brings a little extra life in this animation. It traces about 20 minutes of Earth rotation.

Pity that GIF format destroys the starry sky - Must be seen in big format

At center of picture, you can recognize some constellations and objects: Crux, Carina area, South Pleiades, ...

Construction: 15 photos - 1600ISO to 2500ISO - 8mm - F / 4 - 30s

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