Beautiful galaxy panorama

[bloodhound31]

Went out into the dark forests of the mountains again last night.

God it's so beautiful out there.

Never safer and more at home do I feel under the magnificence of the Milky Way home in which we live.

Canon 400D/static tripod mounted/18-55 EF-s lens/35 second exposures/ISO800//RAW/multiple images stitched together/canon photostitch/

[DavidU (Dave)]

Yep, just superb Baz ! You nailed the stitching beautifully.
Is there a higher res??? please?

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great shot there, Baz. I like the colour in the shot

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Beautiful is right.

[AlexN]

Great panorama! the middle section seems ever so slightly darker than the outter frames. this is just me being picky i suppose.. It would be an easy fix if you just selected dimmer area and raised the brightness a little I suppose?

Apart from my nit-picky-ness, its a great shot of a beautiful chunk of the night sky.. Sensational little vantage point we have here on earth..

[TheDecepticon]

Great shot there!

[Alchemy (Clive)]

nice one baz

[rastis95 (Scott)]

Great shot baz. magnificent sight

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by DavidU

Yep, just superb Baz ! You nailed the stitching beautifully.
Is there a higher res??? please?

Originally Posted by AlexN

Great panorama! the middle section seems ever so slightly darker than the outter frames. this is just me being picky i suppose.. It would be an easy fix if you just selected dimmer area and raised the brightness a little I suppose?

Apart from my nit-picky-ness, its a great shot of a beautiful chunk of the night sky.. Sensational little vantage point we have here on earth..

Thanks everyone. Yes there is a higher res...27MB. I will taking some darks tonight in RAW to subtract and re-process this to get it even smoother and better.

Due to the OVERWHELMING response I have had from this one image from all over the world, I am really going to put some effort into the reprocess.

Since I posted this yesterday on all the forums, and emailed it to all my contact lists, I have not been able to keep up with the return emails.

Obviously this magnificent display above us touches a nerve deep inside many people. So I want to do it justice.

Thank you everyone, so very much!

Baz.

[atalas]

Beautiful Baz!

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Lots of colour there. Best colour I have seen of it in a long time. Looking forward to the repro!

[gregbradley]

Fantastic Baz.

I found a good panorama stitching program called Panorama Factory and it will take into account the different backgrounds and smooth the blend to hide that. I have only done a few panoramas and different background darknesses are hard to handle. This program does a very good job automatically. Google it if you're interested.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Love the composition. The trees reaching up and the dark lanes on the milky way raining down. Great stuff.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

That's a really great image Baz!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Tamtarn]

Great result Baz, well framed with really nice colours.

[Lumen Miner (Mitchell)]

Pardon my ignorance, but does "static" mean un-guided?
If so how many 35 sec frames, were stacked for each section?

I wish I could grab those colours from my location.

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by Lumen Miner

Pardon my ignorance, but does "static" mean un-guided?
If so how many 35 sec frames, were stacked for each section?

I wish I could grab those colours from my location.

That's right mate. Static = fixed, unmoving, still, stationary.

No Stacking.

It was just four 35 second exposures, processed and then stitched together. In fact, I think I started stitching four, but in the end only used three.

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Super shot Baz - just goes to show how beautiful the skies are under dark skies.

Dave

[BerrieK]

Thats really beautiful Baz. Aaah, breathe it all in...

Thanks for sharing.

Kerrie

[gman (Grant)]

Great shot Baz

Love the scenery silhouette.
Almost gives it a surreal feeling