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The Milky Way

Gerr

By Gerr
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This is my second attempt at trying to image the Milky Way. This nearly didn't happen as the local forecast wasn't good but thanks to indigestion I was up at 02:30 and noticed clear skies outside. I don't live far from South Stack lighthouse and with it being a new moon (Aug 11th) - I thought now or never!!

I took 10 images (untracked) with my Canon 650D at high ISO for the Milky Way (25secs duration) and several images of shorter duration to capture the light beams of the light house.  I think I should of took longer exposures to capture more foreground detail but I was worried about the light beams washing out the scene.  As a bonus I saw a few Perseids fireballs too that night.

I used a Samyang 14mm wide field lens at f2.8 and processed the images in photoshop CS2 as a composite.

Hope you like the result. CC's welcome!

And just to add I am seriously thinking of getting a Star Adventurer now.

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