Life down under down under

Living under a rock – kunanyi, West Hobart, Tasmania:

And another shot from under the Tasman Bridge:

Experimenting with astro photography tonight ended in this capture of The Southern Firmament – and another late night.

I would have liked the star trail exposure longer but aside that it was cold and after 12am, the sky began clouding over, the battery was failing and the lens started misting up!

Two images combined in Photoshop:
base layer – 15.0 sec; f/4.0; ISO 16000,
top layer star trails 40% transparent – Live Composite for 90 minutes, 1.0 sec; f/4.0; ISO 1600.
Olympus M.12-40mm F2.8 Pro lens at 12mm on EM1 II.