William Rigby
Surprise View
I've been following an excellent and free YouTube course by Nightscape Images bit.ly/32bdVt9 (on Flickr as www.flickr.com/photos/155135019@N02/ ) Can't recommend it too highly.
Planned using Photopills and Clear Outside apps and with a clear 'window' forecast for the night of 18/08 I went with a socially distanced friend www.flickr.com/photos/peripateticsnaps - travelling separately - to where I thought light pollution wouldn't be too bad. Unfortunately as the Milky Way core was due to appear the clouds on the horizon suddenly grew to encompass the whole sky. I was however fairly pleased to come away with this image.
Just above the clouds and just to the viewer's left of the Milky Way is Jupiter and slightly further left is Saturn.
It comprises 12 exposures (f2.8 13 secs ISO 2500) combined in Sequator plus 9 separately light-painted exposures (f4 13secs ISO 400). All then combined/focus stacked in Photoshop with some work too to better bring out the faint milky way.
Surprise View
I've been following an excellent and free YouTube course by Nightscape Images bit.ly/32bdVt9 (on Flickr as www.flickr.com/photos/155135019@N02/ ) Can't recommend it too highly.
Planned using Photopills and Clear Outside apps and with a clear 'window' forecast for the night of 18/08 I went with a socially distanced friend www.flickr.com/photos/peripateticsnaps - travelling separately - to where I thought light pollution wouldn't be too bad. Unfortunately as the Milky Way core was due to appear the clouds on the horizon suddenly grew to encompass the whole sky. I was however fairly pleased to come away with this image.
Just above the clouds and just to the viewer's left of the Milky Way is Jupiter and slightly further left is Saturn.
It comprises 12 exposures (f2.8 13 secs ISO 2500) combined in Sequator plus 9 separately light-painted exposures (f4 13secs ISO 400). All then combined/focus stacked in Photoshop with some work too to better bring out the faint milky way.