Snowy ruin under many stars...

[clarkpm4242]

...Surrender Bridge Smelt Mill under the Seven Sisters and Auriga Milky Way.  A composite.  Canon 6D MkII, Sigma 50mm.  New lens to try and get 'lens compression' and relatively larger background.

Sky, from home, early hours Wednesday, tracked and stacked to bring out the sparse winter Milky Way.  2 panes, each 4 x 180s at f3.5, iso 800, single dark frame.  Foreground Friday evening, ~1km from home, too many light painted, 5s at f4.5 and iso 800.  Scaled and aligned to match a possible reality.  LR, Sequator, MS ICE, PS.   Cheers, Paul.  Better view when clicked.

Edited January 13, 2022 by clarkpm4242

[FenlandPaul]

Gorgeous, Paul. The sky looks fantastic and your light painting is just out of this world.

I do like these compressed shots. I’ve got one planned on my local windmill from 1km away with the Orion Nebula at 200mm, but I need to bag it in the next couple of weeks or it rises too early.

[JeremyS]

Superb @clarkpm4242 👍🏻

[GordonD]

I think that starscape is breathtaking, even without the excellent foreground. The way all the clusters and nebula show up is wonderful.

Thanks for posting it.

[Second Time Around]

Gorgeous!

[clarkpm4242]

On 08/01/2022 at 12:33, FenlandPaul said:

, but I need to bag it in the next couple of weeks or it rises too early

I have quite a long ToDo list for next time around the sun 

On 08/01/2022 at 13:29, GordonD said:

I think that starscape is breathtaking, even without the excellent foreground. The way all the clusters and nebula show up is wonderful

Thank you.   It is gorgeous.  I will try to get a huge Milky Way mosaic at 50mm!

Cheers,  Paul. 

[teoria_del_big_bang]

I really do like these images you do with the local landscape in the foreground 🙂 

Steve

[Pete Presland]

Lovely image, plenty of interest in the sky and on the ground. Always nice to see an interesting foreground as well as the sky.