Wide Field of Milky Way from Crater Lake

[Whirlwind]

Whilst on holiday chasing an eclipse I also got chance to stay near to Crater Lake and took the opportunity to take a milky way image in the early night of 19th August. 

At the Cloudcap overlook you are at 2400m above sea level and with hardly any light pollution the visual vista of the milky way was stunning.  There was a bit of drifting smoke from state forest fires but at this height we were mostly above it.

This is an image using a Canon 650D and 18-200mm lens (at 18mm) using ISO 800 and F4.5.  It was all mounted on a Star Adventurer Mini (that was roughly polar aligned). 

The image is a stack of 20 x 60s, 1 x 120s, 1 x 90s.  Aligned and combined in pixinsight with a histogram adjustment slightly tweed using the HDRmultiscaletransform tool.  However otherwise processing was a breeze (I can only wish for an observatory at some point with similar conditions!).

Astrobin location below:-

http://www.astrobin.com/309623/?nc=all