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Nightscape Images

This page contains mostly twilight and startrail photographs. These images I usually take casually at observing sites whenever I notice a nice composure of astronomical and foreground objects, or beautiful twilight colors in the sky, or special weather conditions, or whatever. Having collected enough of them over the years, I decided to make them accessible for you now.

Usually I don't take notes of camera settings or exposure time when taking such images (in contrast to "real" astro images), I sometimes don't even know what film or lenses I used or can't remember the exact date and time when a nightscape photo was taken. Taking notes wouldn't do me much good, anyway, because the proper settings are highly dependent on such factors as sky brightness, film, f-ratio of the lens and so on, and results usually can't be reproduced in exactly the same way.
Some people might consider these shots even more beautiful than deep-sky photographs (which are much harder to take). These photographs remember me of the beauty of staying at night under a starry sky at a remote observing site.

Click on any of the small previews to get the full images.

Southern Sky at Ebenwaldhöhe	Astrophotography at Brunnalm	Moonlit Clouds
Moonlit Tree with Stars in Winter	Tree, Moon and Fog at Dawn	Moonrise behind Trees
Moonrise at Ebenwaldhöhe	An Astrophotographer's Dream	Landscape near Niederleis during early Morning Twilight
"Baroque" Clouds during dusk at Mistelbach	Dawn near Alland, Lower Austria	Trees at Dawn
Mistletoe Trees at Dusk	Startrails behind Tree Branches	MN86 in Action
Dawn at Ebenwald	Moon and Mercury in May 2001	The Setting of Orion
Donaufeld at Dusk	Evening Star at Oberberger Alm	Moonlit Observations at Sophienalpe
Chapel at Hochwechsel at Dusk	Startrails at Ebenwaldhöhe	Startrails at Brentenriegel
	Brentenriegel at Dusk

All of the photographs and text on these pages are Copyright © 2010 by Walter Koprolin. All rights reserved. You may download these images and reports for your private use (e.g. as background pictures for Windows etc.), but you must not publish these in any form, neither electronic nor on paper, without written permission of the author. Sorry about that, but long cold hours at the telescope and nearly as much time before the computer screen went into the creation of these images, and I just don't like to find my pictures published somewhere without my permission, as it already happened twice.