milky way

Since so many of us are playing around and learning how to do Timelapse video, I found a bunch of Milky Way shots I took from Joshua Tree back in June of this year while out shooting Deep Sky Astro with my D850. While that camera was focused on a few different Nebula's and Galaxies, I had 3...

While presenting a recent night sky image to our photography club at work this week, I was asked a lot of questions about how to plan those kinds of shots. I hadn’t thought about it for a while, but there can be a lot that goes into it if you have a particular image in mind. My goal is often to...

A few weeks ago I went up to the Devil's Tower to capture Perseids Meteor shower and also the Milky Way. I took my oldest Granddaughter along who is 9 for the quick overnighter. It was a lot of fun and she had a blast. She only has a P&S so she couldn't capture the stars, but she had fun...

I was trail running in RMNP up by Fern Lake 2 evenings ago. The forecast here has been for clouds, and it has been cloudy. So no chance to capture the comet Neowise at night yet. But I brought my camera's just in case. As I was trail running the clouds were opening up to the West and North...

It is usually so quiet and peaceful at night, one can almost hear the night whispering. This is one of my takes on the Milky Way at the Temple of the Sun and Moon with the Moon being the Temple closest. Ben and Alisa were out shooting it with me. It was genuinely a fine time to spend with 2...

This one is from Zion and the bridge looking towards the Watchman. Fortunately at 2am in the morning there was no one to kick me off. It was super windy, so the trees and leaves definitely lose definition in this one. I could use a twilight shot with more leaf definition, but I really prefer 1...

Her is my version of the Milky Way at Capitol Reef. This is a single shot that I edited I do have a series that I would love to stack and edit but still learning... CC welcome.

Well, I guess more of a path. :) This was at the Fairyland Trail in Bryce a few weeks ago, where I stopped on my way to Utah to meet up with everyone. A kind of quick edit, but it didn't need much in the way of processing I don't think. Nikon D850 Sigma 14mm f1.8 @ f2.2 ISO 3200 30 secs Single...

I made a stealth up and back trip to Lake Tahoe last night hoping to capture some stars over Eagle Falls and Emerald Bay. The forecast was clear with no moon in the sky and I hoped that the lack of vacationers during the lock down would reduce the light pollution. The biggest challenge I faced...

Attempted this last year but the tide was high so was not able to get close to the rock; perfect conditions this time around The Dolphin and the Stars by Tony, on Flickr Quite happy with the amount of Milky Way detail I was able to extract from Bortle 4 light pollution

Our Focus this Friday is on Landscapes that have the Milky Way in them. Please add them to this thread. Jim I will start with one from Mono Lake though I have the lake at my back for this one.

This was from a month ago up at Dallas Divide in SW Colorado. It's getting late in the Milky Way season with the Milky Way being more vertical then horizontal, which to me is my least favorite position for it. In this case with the partly cloudy sky and liked how they interacted with the Milky...

This from the beginning of August when Alisa and I went to American Basin to shoot wildflowers, and we got tons of awesome wildflower photos from there with the bloom being a week or two later then normal due to the extreme snow this year. The major road into it got taken out by landslides the...

When Monika and I started shooting off Trail Ridge Road in RMNP on Sunday night for the stars and Milky Way, I set up initially to shoot with the moon at my back to light up the hills and ridges opposite it. There was still some clouds in the sky which I was really liking, but they ended up...

Stayed for the stars on Saturday after the great sunset. When I first got there I think there were about 20 people., maybe more. And if you've been to this spot you know about the ankle breaker loose rocks on the steep hill you need to setup on. A few people left after sunset but it was still...

Here is a rework of the sky a bit from a trip out to Arch Rock in Joshua Tree National Park last April. This is 3 horizontal shots for the pano. There is no stacking in this, it's a single image for the rock and Milky Way for each section of the pano. The Arch is lit up by the light of the just...

I need to have Tim come and give me cool names for my photos like he does for his. :) This is from last month in the Black Canyon. Amy came by and met me about midnight I think to shoot the Milky Way, but this was from before she got there while the Milky Way was lower in the sky. It's a 3...

Went out to Alabama Hills last weekend. Didn't want to fight the crowds at Mobius Arch so I made it out to Cyclops. Shot this on my Pentax K1ii with Rokinon 24mm. 15 images stacked to reduce noise. 10 Seconds, F2.5, ISO 12800. Feedback always welcome.

Ben and I were setting up to shoot the Milky Way after sunset and as it was getting darker I remember seeing a flash of light off in the distance, but wasn't sure what it was with lightning being a possibility. In the middle of taking this shot to double check exposure and such a lightning bolt...

Here's one I took during the last new moon cycle in Joshua Tree. This is the first time I attempted to take two exposers and blend them. I used the built in astro tracer in my Pentax K1 to track the sky. The tracker allowed for a 90 second exposer at ISO 800. Then took a second image for the...