Track to the stars (Andrew Murrell)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: Extremely wide field

Powered byPixInsight

Track to the stars

Powered byPixInsight

Track to the stars

I recently had the opportunity to shoot the ATNF at night. It was an open night so we had about 50 photographers on the grounds. I decided to wander up the other dish about 1km away to try and reduce the crowds. When I arrived at this dish there were only 2 people around and they left after 10 minutes. I had this dish all to myself and could get any composition I wanted without worry. Eventually, I headed back to the dish near the entry but discovered most of the people had already left. If you are in Australia and have one of the dates they have set aside free I highly recommend you go to Narrabri for the shoot of a lifetime.

DSLR and mirrorless astrophotography
Camera Lens Astrophotography
Very Wide Field
Nikon Imagers
Australian Astrophotographers
Southern Hemisphere Astro
Milky Way, Nightscapes and Widefields (CMOS)
Astro Landscapes

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Advanced failed
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8078236
PixInsight job	VD8AGRDAY32AKPCW970FJX7HKNKVGDFR
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	PLATE_SOLVING_IMAGE

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Track to the stars

Track to the stars

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Track to the stars

Track to the stars

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information