Astro Photography

14K SATELLITE TRAILS! 🛰️ (NOT AI!)

This is the most time-consuming photo edit I've EVER done!

I left my camera photographing the night sky over Mt Taranaki for nearly TWO HOURS, capturing 578 photographs.

The result? An estimated 14,450 satellite trail appearances, representing approximately 1,400 individual satellites! 😱

I manually masked in EVERY SINGLE TRAIL from the original photographs — approximately 45 HOURS of editing to create this one image!

🔦 Those tiny lights on the mountain are TWO mountaineers descending Mt Taranaki in the darkness over nearly two hours!

🎥 COMING TOMORROW: The timelapse and behind-the-scenes footage showing how I captured it!

Did you realise there was this much satellite activity in our night skies? 👀

📍 Norfolk, Taranaki, New Zealand
📅 9 September 2026 | 8:18 pm – 10:13 pm
📷 Canon EOS R | Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4
⚙️ 8 sec | f/2 | ISO 6400 | 578 exposures

✨ Real sky • Real place • Real moment ✨
© Brendan Larsen Photography
#CaptureTheAtlas #Astrophotography #SatelliteTrails #MtTaranaki #Taranaki #NewZealandPhotography #NotAI

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https://mymodernmet.com/francisco-sojuel-astrophotography/

julian weßel - astrophotography - ISS transit in front of Saturn
http://jwastronomy.com/news/ISS-transit-in-front-of-Saturn

Look at how far astrophotography and telescopic observations have come in less than 200 years
1- Top photos: (Left) First photograph ever taken of the Orion Nebula, by Professor Henry Draper in 1880.
source : http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/tools/pic-spectroscopy-orion.htm
2- Top (Right) :A 3-minute exposure of the nebula taken with a Canon 400D, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo in 2007.
source :http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2007/12/03/messier-42-Orion-Nebula.html
3- Bottom photo (gif): The Orion Nebula in visible and infrared light taken by the VISTA telescope in 2010.
source : http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1006c/