Steve Pellatt
Opportunity Knocks (Explore #12 12/09/2021)
Milky Way at St. Michaels Mount, Marazion, Cornwall.
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Had a few Flickr free days camping in Cornwall. before going I'd researched Milky Way times and the tide times and was crossing my fingers for some clear night skies. As it happened the first night I was down there it was forecast to be clear and the tide times meant the causeway would be almost clear by the time the MW Core came out. I didn't really feel like it but kicked myself to go out as Had not managed to get the Milky Way last few months. I had taken my MSMN star tracker with me and was rusty with it so with the Core only being visible for 30min I was a bit rushed/stressed. I had also hoed to get a Blue Hour shot of the Mount but arrived too late and trying to focus on it when there is so little light was very difficult and it wasn't until I got them on my monitor I thought the focus was sharp enough to use.
The image is a composite of a long exposure f/8 image fior the causeway, a shot trying to focus on the lights on The Mount and 2 x 3min Star tracked Milky Way images stacked in Sequator.
It's not the best Milky Way image on here but I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out all-in-all especially as I thought I had no usable images of the Mount and I'm just glad I got to see the Milky Way again as so many of the times the core has been potentially visible we've had cloud. Star trails is next on my list of things to trial.
Opportunity Knocks (Explore #12 12/09/2021)
Milky Way at St. Michaels Mount, Marazion, Cornwall.
© All rights reserved Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Had a few Flickr free days camping in Cornwall. before going I'd researched Milky Way times and the tide times and was crossing my fingers for some clear night skies. As it happened the first night I was down there it was forecast to be clear and the tide times meant the causeway would be almost clear by the time the MW Core came out. I didn't really feel like it but kicked myself to go out as Had not managed to get the Milky Way last few months. I had taken my MSMN star tracker with me and was rusty with it so with the Core only being visible for 30min I was a bit rushed/stressed. I had also hoed to get a Blue Hour shot of the Mount but arrived too late and trying to focus on it when there is so little light was very difficult and it wasn't until I got them on my monitor I thought the focus was sharp enough to use.
The image is a composite of a long exposure f/8 image fior the causeway, a shot trying to focus on the lights on The Mount and 2 x 3min Star tracked Milky Way images stacked in Sequator.
It's not the best Milky Way image on here but I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out all-in-all especially as I thought I had no usable images of the Mount and I'm just glad I got to see the Milky Way again as so many of the times the core has been potentially visible we've had cloud. Star trails is next on my list of things to trial.