Milky Way in Glasgow

[Paulstw]

I was determined that I wanted a shot of the Milky Way in Glasgow. Taken 5 mins from my house, in the Campsie Glen, It was my first go at Astrophotography for about a year. It was the first thing I used to do with my kit lens and 600D and £20 tripod lol

It's a 5 image vectorama totalling 17,480 pixels high, and blended in photoshop. Quite frankly it worked out exactly how I saw it in the sky :)


Milky Way by Campsie Photography, on Flickr

Cheers for looking.

Paul

[tesarver]

Re: Milky Way in Glasgow

Beautifully done Paul.

Tom

[paulr5604]

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Nice shot Paul

[AlexR!]

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Paul, what a wonderful, sumptuous, dreamy image.
For my benefit, what lens were you using, and what exposure times? Any specialist astro kit?

[Cyberman]

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Very nice shot.

[EOS_User]

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Very well done. It you could tone down the bright light on the RHS I sense it would be even better... Good job.

Cheers;

Lee

[jimsphotography]

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Great capture - have you tried using a LPR filter? Might help reducing that orange glow a bit.
James

[Paulstw]

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I'm pretty much a novice at this sort of thing. This is only my 4th pic of this kind. I don't use any other kit apart from my lens camera and tripod. I don't know about any other filters that could help with this sort of thing to be honest :)

The settings were

ISO3200
f2.8
30 secs shutter
focus to infinity
mirror lockup
2 second timer

[Bawbee]

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Nice One Paul, well done

In Glasgow, is "Milky Way" not normally pre-fixed with "Battered & Deep-Fried"?

[Brent]

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cracking looking shot

[wayne2418]

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Nice One Paul, well done

In Glasgow, is "Milky Way" not normally pre-fixed with "Battered & Deep-Fried"?

A seriousy nice shot Paul .....

[paul linton]

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Excellent shot Paul,

Paul

[mikep]

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Superb mate, that's one stunner of a shot.

Jealous, moi?

Well done, Mike

[Paulstw]

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Thanks. I think I'm going to visit the Galloway dark sky park. It's two hours drive from me, but I think it'll yield a better result. May as well before the scottish government litter it with wind turbines like what's been proposed.

[Muscat]

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Very nice, well done Paul