Milky Way Veiled In Airglow

[Nightfly]

Below is an example of airglow and the Milky Way early Saturday morning as revealed by long exposure photography.

I noted it visually.  It appeared as large pale white patches of light against a darker sky

Read more...... http://nightflyphotography.blogspot.com/2014/05/airglow.html

Two minutes exposure @ F/2.8 using the Samyang 16mm f/2 on my Pentax K-5 IIs at ISO 1250.  Camera was driven equatorially.

The Milky Way Veiled in Airglow by Nightfly Photographic, on Flickr

[Scott]

Wow. That's one nice piece of art.

[Mr Spock]

Beautiful sky, well captured.

[robbie c]

That's a great image 

[JulianFR]

Super image; great sky.

[DaveS]

Oh for skies dark enough to show airglow! That's beautiful

More like streetlight glow around here 

[m.tweedy]

Very nice-up to the usual impeccable standard.

[Nightfly]

Thank you all for the kind remarks.

Sky and Telescope selected it as Editor's Pick this week.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/online-gallery/milky-way-veiled-airglow/#sthash.KJAKULRf.gbpl

Good to have successful images.

Jim

[ollypenrice]

Fascinating write-up and a delightful picture. This is a great post. Thanks!

Olly

[m.tweedy]

Did not take you long to master the "digital" side.

Now expect 20 images for the length of time it used to take with emulsion     

[nightfisher]

very nice

[Psychobilly]

Fantastic image and a nice read

Peter...

[Nightfly]

Access to dark skies, in my front yard no less, is a tremendous advantage to good photography and imaging on any clear night a simple joy I have grown accustomed to.  

The move to digital for my work is a natural evolution and I am enjoying the results.  That being said, I am planning a project with a new lens (top secret) and medium format film.  I simply have way too much equipment and experience to abandon it.    

One foot in each domain.

Jim