Milky Way from Devon...

[James]

I took some data last night for a time-lapse and just as I was winding up figured a few shots to the south might look quite nice. Here's a single 25 second exposure using a 14mm Samyang lens, ISO 3200 through a Canon 6D...

The view is looking from east on the left through to south west on the right - the orange glow is mostly from Exeter 8 miles away... I think there's a quarry due south hence the white patch of LP on the horizon.The Coathanger is visible at the top to the left and Saturn is there in Scorpius.

It was a good night Only 22GB of data to edit and string together.... I shouldn't complain, in a couple of months it won't be dark enough!!

James

[Mr Spock]

Very nice skies. Where I am that orange would cover the whole lot

[davefrance]

very nice.

[Stargazer33]

That's very nice James, especially as it is a single sub. I wonder if LP is in any of the parties election manifestos?

[Scott]

very nice mate. gotta love a milkyway shot

[James]

That's very nice James, especially as it is a single sub. I wonder if LP is in any of the parties election manifestos?

Don't want to get into politics and get my knuckles rapped but I suspect not ... where I am has pretty good skies but a new town is part way through being built - the extra LP is already fairly obvious but luckily it's in the same general direction as Exeter so it's only making a bad aspect a little worse rather than screwing any other aspect up. For some reason the new town has streetlights that are nearly full cutoff but are mounted at a considerable height.

I'm conscious the skies are better than many others' - better than Lucksall for example so I really shouldn't whinge!

James

[Pete Presland]

Very nice single sub.

[Jonimac25]

I tried my first Milky Way shots tonight, not much success though! Never mind, I'll try again another night!

[Ant]

I liked the image when I saw it on Facebook, it's even better here (Facebook compress the hell out of images).

I think you're skies are better than mine, and that image is great. There is something really special about wide field Milkyway shots.

I'm jealous as I've never managed a good one and I've tried a number of times

Ant

[Gina]

That's lovely James   By coincidence I captured The Milky Way just before dawn this morning in an AVI file from my All Sky Camera that I'm developing - it was great to see it when I played back the overnight AVI