Milky Way over old Barn - rural east Ottawa

[Rudy Pohl]

You have to be a self-deluded, ever-hopeful Light Pollution Ninja Warrior to attempt to do a full arch Milky Way landscape photo anywhere within 2-hours of Ottawa,
but here's my first crack at it this year, (the last two years were complete busts).

This was taken two nights ago 30 minutes east of the city with Ottawa's LP dome behind me which you still see on the left side of the image.
The LP dome in the centre is from Montreal which is 100 kms away, and the LP dome on the right side under the galactic core is from the city of Cornwall 50 kms away.
It took a gazillion hours, and then some, to tease the Milky Way out of this light polluted soup, but finally, with gentle coaxing, it emerged!

This image is composed from 24 x 3-minute images ( 3 rows x 7 columns) tracked on a Star Adventurer.

Nikon D5500
Sigma 24-35/f2 @ 24mm
Aperture f2.8
ISO 200
Stitched in Microsoft ICE (awesome program)
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CS5

Cheers,
Rudy

 

[kendg]

Great image. 

I feel your LP pain (but maybe not quite as much). 

[Ruud]

Oh, that's nice!

[Knighty2112]

Very nice. Excellent work! Well done!  

[Sunshine]

Another stunning shot, just beautiful!!