[iceman (Mike)]

Here's another shot taken on the weekend at Mangrove Mountain Pony Club.

The Sydney skyglow in the south-east really played havoc with this shot. I couldn't do 5 minute exposures because they just had too much light pollution, so these were 3 minute exposures. Even then there was a horrible gradient in the lower-right (the direction of Sydney) that had to be processed out.

I was part-way through a set of 10 sub when my batteries ran flat, so I only got 5 exposures.

Canon 350D + Sigma 17-70mm lens @ 70mm, f/5.0, ISO800.
5x 180s exposures, darks subtracted.
Registered and stacked in DSS, post-processing in photoshop.

Really needs a darker sky, longer exposures and more of them.