Lonely tree in the Kalahari desert

Namibia has been one of my favourite astronomy destinations. In the past years I was able to spend several days and weeks there. Last July 2024 (winter in Namibia) I guided a group of astrophotographers at Tivoli Astrofarm Observatory. Nights were long, and most of them we used to seek for timelapse locations to let our cameras capture a sequence of the Namibian dark sky. During one of those nights I felt more adventurous and looked for a more remote location. The landscape was very uniform with no reference marks on the ground… I got lost during my return to the observatory. The camera was left alone in the perfect lonely tree location… I finally found the way back home. And the morning after, with daylight it was easier to recover all the setup that had captured an amazing sequence of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic clouds. I will attach the full sequence in a youtube video soon here on my website.

The image shown here is one single timelapse frame, as it was shooted just before my adventure way back to the observatory on the night of the 7th of July 2024.

Full HD view on Astrobin: https://app.astrobin.com/u/AstroCat?i=rjshwx#gallery

Thanks for your time on this website.

LR, PS.