The Official Shoot the Milky Way Thread

[West Coast Birder]

A view of the Milky Way from the OMSI Hancock Field Station in Central Oregon. Very dark skies. This was a single 87 second shot with my Canon 6D and a Rokinon 14mm/F2.8 UWA on an iOptron Skytracker mount.

 

[gaabnz]

Milky Way and some bioluminence
milky way test by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

Milky Way rising above Mt Doom (Mt Ngauruhoe) from the Lord of the Rings films.
Mount Doom pano by Gary Ashton, on Flickr


Milky Way reflection at Tomarata Lakes.
Tomarata by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

We are very blessed in New Zealand with some amazing dark skies, some only an hour from the centre of Auckland

 

[West Coast Birder]

Splendid images, Gary! It’s interesting how the Milky Way curves the opposite way from down under from how it does from the Northern Hemisphere. You’re looking at it from the opposite direction, I guess.

 

[LeeRatters]

I wish we didn't have such a small window to shoot the MW here in the UK, but I do get out with the night skies all year round tbh.

My biggest interests are really full arch panoramas & shooting on film tbh simply because of the challenges involved!

Is the thread Milky Way Core only @West Coast Birder ?? Or other night sky images such as constellations & start trails?

Anyway, I'd waited 3 years I think to get this vertical August image of the Milky Way over Stonehenge here in England.


*** by Lee, on Flickr

 

[gaabnz]

Splendid images, Gary! It’s interesting how the Milky Way curves the opposite way from down under from how it does from the Northern Hemisphere. You’re looking at it from the opposite direction, I guess.

Cheers, yes, its funny how northern and southern hemisphere's see it differently

 

[gaabnz]

I wish we didn't have such a small window to shoot the MW here in the UK, but I do get out with the night skies all year round tbh.

My biggest interests are really full arch panoramas & shooting on film tbh simply because of the challenges involved!

Is the thread Milky Way Core only @West Coast Birder ?? Or other night sky images such as constellations & start trails?

Anyway, I'd waited 3 years I think to get this vertical August image of the Milky Way over Stonehenge here in England.


*** by Lee, on Flickr

Love this one Lee, so good

 

[LeeRatters]

Love this one Lee, so good

Thank you Gary. Currently in the 'print' folder waiting

 

[BigAl]

Don't ask me what you can see, other than a bit of the milky way. Was mostly point camera up and shoot.

 

[downhill on water]

Milky Way over Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park, NV


R5009035 Milky Way over Wheeler Peak_Great Basin NP by Steve King, on Flickr

 

[kiapolo]

Milky Way over Haleakalā - Holua Cabin

 

[Bill in Texas]

 

[GlimmerMan_v2.0]

Reworked an older image from Big Bend in West Texas, Bortle 1 skies, mind-boggling.
Edited in Aurora HDR (single exposures, however), which gives a slightly crunchy look, but I love how Aurora pulls out the Milky Way.
Also, shot with a Nodal Ninja, 2 or 3 rows in this image.

1013-05-(2023-1013)-BIBE-MilkyWay-0075_1013-05-(2023-1013)-BIBE-MilkyWay-0117 copyq by S. Nobody, on Flickr

 

[GlimmerMan_v2.0]

I wish we didn't have such a small window to shoot the MW here in the UK, but I do get out with the night skies all year round tbh.
....
Anyway, I'd waited 3 years I think to get this vertical August image of the Milky Way over Stonehenge here in England.

Beautiful image. Living around Houston, the concept of a dark sky means a week of vacation time and a 10 hour drive... And then you've got to get lucky with the clouds. I missed the entire Perseids in 2021 due to 3 cloudy nights. I get what you're saying and it is always something special to be able to capture an image like you've got there.

 

[Karl]

Milky Way and an old truck - Karara Rangelands, Western Australia.

Karl

 

[Kukulkan]

 

[LeeRatters]

Woolacombe Bay, Devon, UK.

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*** by Lee, on Flickr

 

[amyandmark3]

March 2024. From the balcony of our hotel in Jenner, California.
10 shots stacked in Sequator.

 

[HannahsDad]

T.A. Moulton Barn and the Milky Way. Grand Teton National Park, WY. This is a composite image shot from the same location. The barn was a roughly 5 1/2 minute shot and the Milky Way was a 30 second shot. Combined in Photoshop. The light from the right is actually the moon that had not completely set. I thought it was going to ruin my shot, but it turned out to illuminate the barn quite nicely. Thanks for looking.

 

[AdeR]

 

[HannahsDad]

Here is another from that same evening as the one above with the barn. The moon had set by this time. Still 28 degrees F, though.