Wide Field Views of the Night Sky

These images were taken at Moore and Mt. Kent Observatories using Nikon and Sony digital cameras sensitive to very low light.

Moore Observatory near Louisville, Kentucky

• Late afternoon on February 27, 2007 at 16:52 local time, 21:52 UTC
• Night of August 23, 2011, at 00:15 local time, 04:15 UTC
• Night of August 26, 2011, at 00:15 local time, 07:53 UTC
• Movie on the Night of August 26, 2011, from 0:53 to 3:53 local time, 4:53 to 8:53 UTC
• Aurora in the northern sky on the night of October 24, 2011, at 21:38 local time, 01:38 UTC
• Dawn on October 25, 2011, at 06:30 local time, 10:30 UTC

Mount Kent Observatory near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

• All sky on the night of May 19, 2007, at 18:19 local time, 05:19 UTC
• Milky Way on the night of October 10, 2015, at 20:22 local time, 10:22 UTC
• Magellanic Clouds on the night of October 10, 2015, at 20:24 local time, 10:24 UTC

On-line Resources

• Sky-Map
• In the Sky
• Aladin Lite
• Stellarium
• Heaven's Above

Observing Sites

• Moore Observatory on Google Maps
• Mt. Kent, Australia, on Google Maps

Last update: December 2, 2016
kielkopf at louisville dot edu