milkyway south-which one is better?what to improve?!

[mislav]

few milkyway with equpiment:

box of matches for angle, d90nikon with standars lens (18-55). exp 12sec, iso 3200, f2.8, no zoom, one picture, just little postprocesing on simple software.. how to get nebulas better?is it possilble??

[happy-kat]

That must be a a lovely dark sky there's lots captured I like the first image particularly.

You could try the lens at 18mm at the widest setting. I would then stop the lens down a bit to say f4 or f5. In theory at 18mm you might get 25 seconds before star trails though some parts of the sky are more forgiving. If you keep the camera pointing say no more than 60 degrees high and facing East or West will be more forgiving then North or South or high up I think.

Take several/many images and stack them in DSS (deep sky stacker) and you might pull out even more. I am not sure if DSS takes Nikon raw files you will have to try. Using the camera self timer will help limit camera shake and if on the balcony if you sit still as well to limit vibrations from your movements. 

Look forward to seeing your next image.