This was a 4 shot horizon to horizon with a 15mm fisheye that I PS stitched......Milky Way was better than I've managed to show here......

Thats a fantastic image.. love it!

.......wish my post process skills were better to bring out the hub more....

Wow - super smashing! Deep envy :-)

.......quite a nice one to show the lack of cloud after such a poor start to the evening......you just can't tell sometimes can you?

That's a cracker !!

great shot mate.... Jupiter, M45, M31, Double cluster :)

blimey - you studied that well! ;-)

Lovely photo :)

Great shot.

Impressive. I like the way the horizon glow gives a sort of "reverse vignetting"; makes one hanker for a sky with no light on the horizon -- imagine what the zenith would be like then!

That is spectacular Lawrence. The sky looks amazing, I really missed a belter of night.

.......when I get time, I will try some more processing on this image to see if I can bring out the MW more.....& I think I prefer the image rotated 90 deg anticlockwise......wish I'd got the horizon in fully on 3 sides too......something to try next time maybe.....

thx for all the positve feedback!

You should really post that in the main forum, i think it's a possible Picture of the Week. Fantastic composition, processing, content, detail......love it!

.....thx Russ.....not sure which main forum you are talking about....

Post it here Lawrence :)

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-widefield-special-events-comets/

.........I'll 'breath' on it somemore tonight before posting - I want to change the orientation & try & bring out the MW while suppressing the bright horizon. Thx.

Is that a shooting star in the pic, or satellite or just a aircraft? lovely photo though!

Star - I don't know.....I've wondered that as there were a number of shooters that night that we all saw. I don't think that it is a plane though. my guess is a shooter or a satellite. What do others think?