DSLR shot.....Milky Way

[technofan]

Well no telescope yet so I'm just using my D300s on a tripod. This is a single 13sec exposure at12mm and ISO800. Quite a bit of tinkering in LR3 to bring out detail...(surprising how much there was from a single exposure).

Pete:)

[JonH]

Beautiful shot and nicely presented too!

[technofan]

Thanks Jon:)

I'm on the 'learning curve' now and as a keen 'tog' I intend to fully master the art of capturing the night sky.

It feels good to be doing the 'Dark Side'....

[saturn5]

You could have doubled your exposure time quite safely and not had any trailing.

[technofan]

You could have doubled your exposure time quite safely and not had any trailing.

The most I can squeeze is 25 secs with 'some' trailing... 20 secs seems to be acceptable and on the next trip out I shall run a series of ISO experiments too...

It's great fun to see the results... I tried 13 secs and ISO 800 for the clarity, but you're right, I haven't found the 'optimum' clarity/light gathering settings yet...

Thank you for the advice,

Pete:)

[carpman]

Excellent picture would look good up on a wall

[Trull]

Its well worth stacking a bunch, try 80 - and see how silky smooth the stars get

[technofan]

Another version...more CS4 tweaking...

Pete.

[MaCross]

Gret pic, great presentation! (Personally I like the first one better though)

[Syzygy2011]

Brilliant!

[LukeSkywatcher]

The 2nd image shows more but there is more false colour. The 1st one is the one for me.

[saturn5]

The 2nd image shows more but there is more false colour. The 1st one is the one for me.

First one gets my vote too,for the same reasons.

Very nicely done too.

[technofan]

Thanks everyone:)

It's a shame we can't 'pre-book' our clear nights in advance:icon_eek:

Looking forward to more photographic 'experiments'...

Pete.....

[saturn5]

Thanks everyone:)

It's a shame we can't 'pre-book' our clear nights in advance:icon_eek:

Looking forward to more photographic 'experiments'...

Pete.....

Too true Pete,clear nights usually coincide with overtime or some other previous engagement thats hard to get out of.

Keep up the experimenting,best way to learn imho,read up all you want but the best way is to get out and shoot,especially with this type of earth and space shot.

[yorks]

lovely image

[TJSnapper]

Excellent capture, the first one is my favourite as well. Thanks for posting, you\ve got em inspired to go out and try this

[Freddie]

That's a nice shot. Thanks for posting.

[vds]

Those are a couple of nice shots. I prefer the first as well, though probably because of the colour change from top to bottom.

vds

[RobH]

Great result, just shows what can be done with a single exposure and no special gear

Rob

[gazza666]

nice shots just bought myself a canon 500d hope I can take a few good pictures like that thanks for showing