When I was out at Palomar astronomizing a couple of weeks ago, I set up my camera to do some Milky Way photography. I didn't have any special equipment. Just my camera and a tripod, which limited my exposure time to about 15 seconds and also limited the number of frames I could stack.¹ Nonetheless, it turned out surprisingly well. It's a composite photo: the sky is a stack of ten frames while the foreground is a single frame lit by flash.
Next month should be the height of Milky Way season, and I have a whole different idea planned, complete with equipment that's up to the task. But that's all I'll say. After all, I might screw it up.
¹Normally you can stack as many frames as you can feed into the software. However, without equatorial tracking the top of the frame moves at a different rate than the bottom. Feed in too many frames and the software can't find a single way to register them all correctly.
I agree - that's a beautiful result!
Absolutely stunning. This should be printed and framed. Great job Kevin!
Wow! Nice!
Absolutely beautiful. Love it. Stunning.
Really nice. I like your astronomizing photos.
Nice. I'm racking my brains trying to stack a bunch of MW frames and have bupkis so far. Might have to buy Sequator or something. I used 30" with my 14mm on APS-C and have star streaks; MAYBE I can fix those by doing star elimination, duplicating the star image, and using it to mask itself so only one edge of the streak shows? I should just give it up as a bad job but now I've got my stubborn up.
If I squint I can still see the headlights in the fog