⭐️ BRIGHTON CALENDAR 2026 - NIGHT AND DAY⭐️
Including photos of the Northern Lights, Huge Moons, Milky Way Arch and Lunar Eclipse! (click to see the photos!)
JUPITER AND ITS MOONS RISE OVER THE BRIGHTON SKYLINE:
I would love to say I planned this photo but I'd actually set out to take a photo of the rising Moon behind the city skyline. However, as I was firing off some practice exposures a short while before the Moonrise I noticed an orange 'streak' in my photos. I instantly knew what that orange streak was with my 'Sky app' confirming it as Jupiter. The next 5 minutes were a frantic adjustment of settings and exposures in order to capture a pretty unique sight and one which made my late night trip even more exciting.
LABELLED ASTRO OBJECTS AND BRIGHTON LANDMARKS:
The below diagram labels Jupiter, 3 of its moons (which are readily visible with a half decent pair of binoculars) and two stars which were the only other astro objects that I could 'bring out' at this low altitude. I have also labelled a lot of the big landmarks in the city's skyline, although the piers are a bit harder to see with a lot of other buildings behind them.
[Link to see this photo in the Brighton's Top Attractions gallery without the labels!]
SINGLE EXPOSURE:
The above image is captured from multiple exposures taken at the same time from almost 12 km away on Lancing Beach.
The reason for the multiple exposures was simply a matter of obtaining the highest quality possible for each of the ‘objects’ in the photo. For reference I have provided a photo below which I took about 4 minutes after the exposures I took for the above image - this photo was a single exposure, showing blown out highlights, lots of noise, less detail, less colour, less sharpness etc.
ANOTHER SINGLE EXPOSURE:
The first photo I took this night - a 30 second long exposure showing a blurred Jupiter line as it moves across our sky.
The only editing that has been done to this photo is to lower the highlights (no cropping, no contrast, or any other adjustments).
⭐️ BRIGHTON CALENDAR 2026 - NIGHT AND DAY⭐️
Including photos of the Starling Murmurations - plus the Northern Lights, Huge Moons, Milky Way Arch and Lunar Eclipse! (click to see the photos!)
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