Astro & Night

Two kinds of night: the sky over the Tauern, which turns on its own, and a city where only the lights are moving. Both live on long exposures and on staying awake.

Nights in the Hohe Tauern and the Sexten Dolomites: the galactic core above a stone pine at the Staller Sattel, the Milky Way threading the Himmelspforte on the Schafberg, the Orion Nebula built up from stacked exposures.

And London in April 2026, between midnight and two in the morning: Tower Bridge over the Thames, buses drawing a band of light under the arch, the wheel seen from below, the moon beside the glass. Plus a village church in East Tyrol that glows brighter at night than it does by day.

Almost all of this is long exposure. What stands in the viewfinder is not yet the photograph; that happens in the thirty seconds afterwards, and with the stars across a whole run of exposures that are later laid on top of one another. What it takes is a clear forecast, a tracking head that holds, and time you don’t measure in hours.