Image of Church of the Good Shepherd by John Freeman

Jan.. 11, 2019. 11:30 PM. -- Before we departed on our trip to Australia and New Zealand I had done extensive planning for this photo. Using Photo Pills I determined that it should be possible to find a location near the church that would allow me to have the Southern Cross, which is part of the southern Milky Way, directly above the church. Using my Gigapan to capture a wide sky view I had also planned to include the Magellanic Clouds. The day we arrived we went out to the church's location around 5pm and I fired up the Photo Pills app on my phone and found the location which would give the correct location to set up my camera. Then about 10pm we went back and I carried my equipment to that location and set it waiting for Moon to set at 11pm. Image was shot with Sony A7Rii, Sigma 24-70mm lens @ 35mm, f/2.8, 13 sec. exposure, ISO 3200. It is made up of 30 images, 3 rows x 10 columns approximately 33% overlap in portrait orientation. The original image is: 247 Mega-pixels, 13283 x 18596 pixels, 44" x 62" 300 PPI cropped image size https://vastphotos.com/photo/southern-cross-over-church-of-the-good-shepard-by-john-freeman

John Freeman

Church of the Good Shepherd