Faint Milky Way over sea stacks at Duncansby.

[saturn5]

Not quite dark enough to show the milky way at its best so this is a location to return to shortly.

[melsky]

Beautiful images Stewart, do you do any tracking for stars or is it all on a fixed tripod?

Mel

[Daniel-K]

fantastic i'd love to shot images like that

[Ant]

Both lovely shots I can only imagine what the view would be like when it actually gets dark.

Cheers

Ant

[stang]

Wow- beautiful image and location

[Space Ranger]

They turned out great considering the sky wasn't fully dark. I didn't know about the viewing "platform" you used for the second photo, but then you won't find me that close to the cliff edge in the daytime, never mind at night. I got a couple of meteors in my shots (one really bright one) but the Milky way didn't come out nearly as good. Definitely a place to visit again.

[saturn5]

Beautiful images Stewart, do you do any tracking for stars or is it all on a fixed tripod?

Mel

Just a fixed tripod Mel,less hassle and less stuff to carry :-)

They turned out great considering the sky wasn't fully dark. I didn't know about the viewing "platform" you used for the second photo, but then you won't find me that close to the cliff edge in the daytime, never mind at night. I got a couple of meteors in my shots (one really bright one) but the Milky way didn't come out nearly as good. Definitely a place to visit again.

Been there a few times in daylight so knew about the rock shelf.Its probably about 20 ft long by about 10 ft at its widest and theres a big grassy slope with a foot worn path leading down to it so its reasonably safe even in the dark.I was nowhere near the edge though.Not got the best head for heights either.

[PeteC]

Beautiful! Maybe too light to catch the MW at its best but if you leave it until it's properly dark maybe you'll lose the wonderful foreground colour.

[TractionMan]

Stunning images! Worth looking at again and again and again and....

[Lorne]

Another couple of cracking images

PS... you'll need to get onto the council in Wick to get them streetlights turned off

[saturn5]

Another couple of cracking images

PS... you'll need to get onto the council in Wick to get them streetlights turned off

I'd prefer the whole of Caithness lightless.Dont mind a bit of glow on the horizon sometimes :-)