Milky Way over Ruapehu
Shot at 4 am with the land images shot about 30 minutes before the sky images, to catch the light of the setting moon on the peaks of Ruapehu. Land shot with three sets of stacked 30 second exposures; sky shot with nine sets of five 6 second exposures, with each set stacked in DeepSkyStacker; I then stitched the stacked images together in Microsoft Ice and Photoshop. Milky Way running up the centre, with the large and small Magellanic clouds on the left.
Milky Way over Ruapehu
Shot at 4 am with the land images shot about 30 minutes before the sky images, to catch the light of the setting moon on the peaks of Ruapehu. Land shot with three sets of stacked 30 second exposures; sky shot with nine sets of five 6 second exposures, with each set stacked in DeepSkyStacker; I then stitched the stacked images together in Microsoft Ice and Photoshop. Milky Way running up the centre, with the large and small Magellanic clouds on the left.