A look at all things northern…and some of the myths behind them.

A night at Pigeonhole, NT: “Look at the stars, look how they shine for you…”*

June 3, 2011 – 4:51 pm, by Bob Gosford
   

Midnight at the Pigeonhole west season camp

During the past week I was lucky enough to spend the night at Pigeonhole, a small Aboriginal township in the Victoria River district nestled on the banks of the might Victoria River about 800 or so kilometres south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

It was a clear moonless – and cold – night and I dragged my trusty camera and tripod out and took a few shots of the brilliant night sky from my campsite at the local airstrip.

Here they are – I hope you like them…

Milky way and tree. Pigeonhole, NT.

A slice of night light...with Southern Cross

Another slice of a cold night sky from Pigeonhole...

Thanks to Coldplay for the fine words from their song “Yellow“. Lyrics by Jonathan Mark Buckland;William Champion;Christopher Martin;Guy Rupert Berryman

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    Angra
    Posted June 6, 2011 at 6:43 am | Permalink

    Lovely pics Bob.

    On a similar theme, here a beautiful time-lapse sequence of the stars and wildlife filmed by one of the astronomer at the CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) near Narrabri.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsGJFlTFGhI

  2. 2
    Captain Planet
    Posted June 7, 2011 at 11:09 am | Permalink

    Beautiful.

  3. 3
    wilful
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:12 pm | Permalink

    If you download stellarium, you can find out a tiny tiny bit about aboriginal astronomy.

  4. 4
    Roger Clifton
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:44 pm | Permalink

    You’ve captured the temperature colours in the stars beautifully, aiding commentary. The red giant Antares just shouts out: here is Scorpio.

  5. 5
    Andrew L
    Posted June 10, 2011 at 3:56 pm | Permalink

    Fabulous. Thanks for sharing them

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