ASTRO DOGS CELESTIAL ADVENTURE FEATURING AN IMAGE WE CAPTURED OF STAR TRAILS ABOVE SAINT MARYS CHURCH! 💖🌠✨️
We have just finished the first weekend of our brand-new exhibition and we have had an amazing time! We met lots of lovely people and we were so happy to see everyone enjoying the experience that we have worked so hard on to put together.
Saint Marys is such a wonderful church and we couldn't think of a better place to display our latest exhibition. It is an honour to be part of this year’s Scarborough Lights festival, to be able to display our work in such a beautiful historic setting and also to share it with such talented artists as Animated Objects and Adrian Riley
We have had some great feedback over our first weekend and we can't wait to see more of you over the coming weekends!
A little while ago, we planned to capture a special image of Saint Marys church to display at our brand-new exhibition within the church. Whilst walking around and admiring the church a couple of weeks before the beginning of the Scarborough Lights festival, we noticed that one of the windows of the church would make for a great star trail image. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to capture this image before the exhibition as we were extremely busy preparing everything for the exhibition and we also have not recently had the perfectly cloudless skies that are required to create an image like this. However, on the night of the 17th of November - we were treated to clear skies, which gave us the perfect opportunity to realise our planned image. So we decided to brave the super cold weather to try and capture this image.
After braving the cold throughout the previous evenings astrophotography adventure and feeling icy cold, we made sure to wrap up well this time. Especially given the forecast for the night predicted feels - like temperatures down to around -4°C. We made sure to be prepared for the cold this time, waring lots of layers, bringing hot water bottles and fleecy blanlets. Luna was super cozy, wearing her pyjamas underneath her new fleece lined coat that she received for her birthday.
When we arrived the clear sky looked beautiful and there was many celestial treats to gaze upon. The almost full Moon was paying a close visit to the bright gas giant planet Jupiter and the two luminaries were shining brightly over Scarborough. Nearby to the Moon was the constellation of Taurus the bull along with the bright red star Aldebaran and the radiant Pleiades open star cluster (aka the Seven Sisters or Subaru). Below the Moon and Jupiter was the distinct constellation of Orion, whose return to our night skies also heralds the return of cold weather (and it was very cold!). The red planet Mars was gleaming to the left of the Moon and Jupiter and the brightest star in the sky – Sirius (our favourite star aka the Dog Star!) was twinkling profoundly. The night of the 17th was also the peak night for the Leonid meteor shower and even with the bright light from the almost full Moon, we were treated to views of several bright and super-fast meteors!
In order to achieve our planned image, we spent over 2 hours in the sub-zero feels-like temperatures taking a series of continuous photographs that we combined together to complete our vision. Even though it was extremely cold, after getting home and processing our photographs we felt it was more than worth it and we hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour.
In this image you can see one of the magnificent gable ends of Saint Marys church along with its beautiful stone architecture and glass window. Within the glass of the window, you can also see the reflection of star light (which we feel is quite relevant for “Reflections” – the name of the event in which we are exhibiting).
As well as the glorious architecture of Saint Marys, in the sky above you can see a beautiful circular visual effect that happens when you capture the apparent movement of the stars over a long period of time. This effect is known as star-trailing and is an excellent way of showing the effect of the rotation of our planet Earth. As the Earth spins around on its axis, this rotational movement creates the apparent visual effect of all the stars in the night sky spinning around a point in the sky called the North celestial pole. This point in the sky is where the Earth’s North pole points towards in the sky. When you capture super long exposure photographs aimed towards this point, the captured apparent movement of the stars creates concentric circles of colourful trailing star light.
We captured hundreds of images on this night and combined them all together in order to create this image. We are super happy with the result and we hope that you like the final image that came out of our long and freezing cold imaging session!
We will also be adding this image to our exhibition at Saint Marys and we think it is a very fitting photograph to be displaying within the church for the Scarborough Lights festival. If you would like to see our new image being illuminated along with some more of our images including some other brand-new images that no-one has seen before, why not visit our new exhibition at Saint Marys?
You can find more information on "Reflections" and grab tickets from the Scarborough Fair website here: https://scarboroughfair.uk/events/reflections-featuring-work-by-adrian-riley-animated-objects-and-astro-dog/
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As always, your support is greatly appreciated and we hope to see many more of you at our brand new exhibition over the coming weekends!
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