{"id":79,"date":"2012-12-09T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-12-09T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:12:27","slug":"starscapes-and-light-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Starscapes and light pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been playing around with night sky shots lately, here&#8217;s a couple of wide-angles of the sky above my house. The light pollution is annoyingly obvious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0147a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80\" title=\"DSC_0147a\" src=\"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0147a-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0147a-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0147a-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the northerners amongst us, that&#8217;s an upside down Orion in the first picture. 10mm wide-angle lens set to f3.5, ISO 200 and 40 second exposure here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0168a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-81\" title=\"DSC_0168a\" src=\"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0168a-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0168a-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0168a-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Showing more to the south of my location now with some low level cloud drifting in slowly covering the band of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0123a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84\" title=\"DSC_0123a\" src=\"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0123a-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0123a-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0123a-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As close to the Orion nebula as my 500mm Sigma can get me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been playing around with night sky shots lately, here&#8217;s a couple of wide-angles of the sky above my house. The light pollution is annoyingly obvious. For the northerners amongst us, that&#8217;s an upside down Orion in the first picture. 10mm wide-angle lens set to f3.5, ISO 200 and 40 second exposure here. Showing more to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starscapes and light pollution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}