The Milky Way

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Thank you for your kind words. I must admit that when I need a MW fix in summer I look at this image.

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I find that Astronomy has that effect on me as well.

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I have yes but not with the digital. My f70 Nikon has done may startrail images. You can make a star trail image from combining lots of 30 second images in a programme called aptly enough Startrails.

I do perfer to look through my scope rather than take images BUT these wide field images are so much fun to take.

Thanks Misty

Its amazing the detail you can capture from a nice dark site. What I like about this image is the way the dust lane changes after the Galatic centre. The arm between the Coal Sack and the galatic centre is where the star formation is happening, hence the blue colour of the stars and the red nebula. After the Galatic centre the Dark lanes become more difusse and the predominate colour of the stars is yellow and red, as we are looking at the back end of the Cygnus spiral arm. The Galaxy appears to be rotating clockwise.
Sorry for the lecture.
BTW thanks for your comments

Thanks Scott

Thanks Nurhilal, it is a wonderful site to see in real life as well

Thanks Nancy

Thank you Gino. it turned out better than i thought it would. Glad so many people enjoy this image

Jeff I am so glad that people like this image. it is one of my favourites.

Thanks John I appreciate your comment.

Hello Garth. Yes the image is taken on an equatorial mount. (A Paramount). the cmera had the 11-18mm Tamron attached and the camera was piggy backed on a telescope that was imaging the Bug Nebula. By stacking 3 of the 5 minutes exposures you reduce the noise made by long exposures. Thannks for having a look.

THANK YOU for your great reply, I am glad you like the image that much.

Thanks Mate I appreciate the time you spend looking and enjoying the photo. Your reply has inspired me to do a little more.

Thanks Milos

Thanks mate for your continued support

THANK YOU Barbara

Actually it takes a lot of expensive equipment to take a shot like this. LOL. A friend of Mine in Coonabarabran has the telescope set up permanetly in their front yard. I just piggybacked the camera on the scope. It turned out MUCH better than I thought though. Thank you for your wonderful comment.

Thank you David. I like nothing better than to get under a dark night sky. The Milky way is an awe inspiring sight…

Thanks very much. I appreciate your looking and commenting.

Thank you for commenting. The night sky is amazing isn’t it.

Thank you Jason, focus was always a big problem of this type of photo, luckily Live Veiw has come to the rescue here. Great feature on any camera.

I was quite supprised at how good the image turned out myself. Thanks for great comment Siddhesh

Thanks Paulette For a great comment.

Thanks BigAl

Coona has a VERY dark sky. Thanks for the comments.

Thank you Melanie

I have not seen the sky from Ireland so I am not sure how much light polution there is. The skies or rural Australia are dark, and Coona is one of the darkest around.
Thanks James for your comment

It really shows the wonder of the heavens. Thank you.

I have a freiend with a Paramount and a 6” Tak. The Nikon was piggybacked for the 3×5 image shots that make this. Shot from the Dark skies of Coonabarrabran.

So am I. It’s a friends mount and in a longer story its not even his but a friends from the US who has it here on permanent loan. Steve has the use of it for the year except for the 2-3 weeks when the US owner is in town.

It is a great way of resucing the grain of the image particularly when shot at 800iso. I was suprised at how much sky the shot covered.

Yes I had the help of a friends scope. My wife wants to get me another scope to do this type of photography for xmas. Thanks for stopping by

Thank you very much Alex

Thank you very much, I appreciate the comment.

Thank you for a great comment Sylvain

Thank you very much. I appreciate your kind words

Thank you very much