Great Rift in Dark Skies

[Nightfly]

Late August is a favorite time to photograph the Milky Way, nights set in early and the bugs are all but gone in the cool night air.

This was a "quick" single 92 second exposure using my Pentax K-5 IIs and Samyang 16mm f/2 @ f/3.2 using ISO 3200.  Processed in Photoshop.  A bit over-processed but I was getting out some nice details.  in the outskirts of the star clouds.

Note the crisscrossing satellites in Aquila.

Thanks for looking!  

Milky Way - Detailed by Nightfly Photographic, on Flickr

[Tiny Small]

Very nice indeed.

[StuartJPP]

Nice one there...especially for a single image.

[szymon]

Lovely!

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[Pete Presland]

beautifull, still on the "to do" list for me, it is little noisy but for a single 90 sec exposure its very good!

[laser_jock99]

Excelent single sub. The Samyang lens seems to work well.

[AstroGZ]

Great image!

[robbie c]

Stunning image