~ Gorgeous sky coloured with bright Venus and Mercury low on the horizon ~
I woke up very early this morning and jumped straight out of bed, looked out my bedroom window and saw Venus shining brilliantly in the predawn sky. It was embedded in that volcanic dawn sky with all those incredible colours…. I was so excited :-D
At 5.30am here in Australia it’s still quite dark as it’s winter time, but all around and up the eastern horizon in a high broad halo you could see that gorgeous deep orange glow from these volcanic particles that are high up in our atmosphere…. it was just stunning! I also took one image of Venus reflecting on the water and a bit lower down in the picture you can just make out the elusive planet Mercury.
My images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens set on 18mm with ISO 200 and numerous exposures times.
*** Tara Williams from NSW *** In answer to your question from yesterday on Spaceweather.com: I did notice that this coloured twilight glow is extending right around the horizon, but it’s ever so faint in the western sky…now that’s very interesting!
Thank you for asking that question, as I would never have thought about looking in the opposite direction. I’m also capturing ripples in my images even through the sky is perfectly clear, another interesting observation!!!
Maybe we can blame this very unusual cold weather on these volcanic particles too ; -)
At 5.30am here in Australia it’s still quite dark as it’s winter time, but all around and up the eastern horizon in a high broad halo you could see that gorgeous deep orange glow from these volcanic particles that are high up in our atmosphere…. it was just stunning! I also took one image of Venus reflecting on the water and a bit lower down in the picture you can just make out the elusive planet Mercury.
My images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens set on 18mm with ISO 200 and numerous exposures times.
*** Tara Williams from NSW *** In answer to your question from yesterday on Spaceweather.com: I did notice that this coloured twilight glow is extending right around the horizon, but it’s ever so faint in the western sky…now that’s very interesting!
Thank you for asking that question, as I would never have thought about looking in the opposite direction. I’m also capturing ripples in my images even through the sky is perfectly clear, another interesting observation!!!
Maybe we can blame this very unusual cold weather on these volcanic particles too ; -)
The video below was taken with my Canon 70D camera at 6.16am just 20 minutes before sunrise. The golden colours were magnificent just like liquid gold; you can still make out bright Venus in the eastern sky.
~ It was breathtakingly beautiful ~
~ It was breathtakingly beautiful ~
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