Michael Messer 23/12/21 Michael Messer 23/12/21

Better to be lucky than good – or so the saying goes.

When trying to take star trail photos in the southern hemisphere you look for the south celestial pole. The reason you look for this is that is the point in which the stars rotate around forming the circle.

Accurately finding the south celestial pole isn’t easy, well for me anyway. You can ‘draw’ a line through the head and foot of the southern cross into the night sky and then ‘draw’ a line perpendicular out from the pointers. Where these two lines intersect is the south celestial pole. As you can imagine, I don’t always get my ‘drawing’ correct.

Michael Messer 23/12/21 Michael Messer 23/12/21

First storm of spring 2021

Once again storms are predicted. This time we are in the firing line as the radar shows a storm definitely heading our way. I decide to not set up the swag and instead head out to see if I can get my first spring lightning photos.

I manage to capture a couple of daytime lightning bolts. I was quite pleased with this as I find it hard to capture lightning during the day.