Milky Way

[rogerg]

Hi all,

A milky way shot from a few weeks ago. It's OK, but not brillaint :shrug: I obviously didn't get the framing right, cropping the Magellanics off. I do enjoy using the 8-15 anywhere anytime tho :)

Canon 7D @ 1600 ISO
Canon 8-15 F/4 L
9 x 120 second exposures

I gave it a blue look. Seems to be the in thing.

Larger:
http://rogergroom.com/astro-photography/astrophotography-of-the-milky-way/roger-groom-milky-way-fisheye-with-frames-excluded/

Roger.

[Grahame]

Nice one Roger,

I should have gone to dryandra that night as it looks like you had excellent conditions there!

how did you go about stacking these?

[multiweb]

Very nice field. Cool dark skies at your place. :thumbsup:

[Larryp]

Very nice!

[gregbradley]

Good job Roger.

Greg.

[rogerg]

This was actually down at the ASWA AstroCamp at Dryandra (near Narrogin). Skies there are good looking SW to N but glow to the NW from Perth :)

[rogerg]

Friday night was 100% perfect. Best conditions I've seen for some time. There was 15 odd people up at 3:30am, unusual as I'm sure you would attest to!

Stacking - usual stuff, just DSS to reduce & stack, photoshop to layer foreground and background stacks and adjustment layers.

This is not a particularly good example, I'm not happy with the foreground layering. But don't think I can be bothered redoing it better.

I was hoping to use PixInsight but I'm bashing my head against it's learning curve right now. :mad2:



Thanks!



Thanks!

[colinmlegg]

Nice Roger. The Milky Way colours are perfect :)

[iceman]

I like it, nicely processed.

[rogerg]

Thanks for your words of encouragement everyone.

[Octane]

Man, that's a beautiful sight.

Great framing!

H