Working near Gibraltar, want to photograph the sky

[Parrot of Doom]

Hi all. I'm a reasonably proficient amateur photographer (I'm actually a TV cameraman by trade). I have a job in Jerez (on the southern tip of Spain) coming up this week. I'd like to use the opportunity to take some photographs of the night sky, weather permitting.

I'd really like to get a shot of the Milky Way. Trouble is, I don't know which way to point the camera along the horizon, or at what time the milky way rises above the horizon (if at all, this time of year).

Can anyone help? I have a Canon 20D, and a Sigma 10mm lens, tripod, remote timer, and laptop.

[TopHouse]

Get a program called 'Stellarium" you input your co-ordinates into the program and it uses your PC's system time and runs a planetarium in realtime on your screen, it then shows you where everything is, it's a great program and free.

[NickH]

Drive up to near El Bosque (Grazalema Natural Park)...only an hour from you...skies there are spectacular

[Parrot of Doom]

Thanks for the tip about Stellarium - it crashes on XP but runs fine on my Ubuntu laptop, so I'll take that with me

Its a nice application just for when I'm bored and want to look around also

[TopHouse]

it's a great piece of software, if it crashes on XP you have the latest version, grab the previous version and it'll run fine on xp, just remember to uninstall the previous one first.