The Galaxy Setting over Corsica

I am still working on my skills to capture the Milky Way inflight. This is my latest try. It shows the core of Milky Way over the east cost of Corsica.

 

I am still not very happy with the result. While I am now able to cotrol the window reflections, there still are two remaining problems:

 

1. Distortions produced by the 2 inches of glass from the window

- You can clearly see them on the lower left of the image.

 

2. Blurred stars due to aerodynamis oscillation

- As I was flying on a northwesterly heading, I had to shoot out of the side window. Due to aerodynamic oscillations calld "dutch roll", a jet aircraft with tapered wings oscillates about every 2.5 seconds in a slight corkscrewing motion. What is normally not perceptible, manifests itself clearly in a long exposure out of the side window: When you look at the image in full resolution, you can see that the stars actually are forming little circles instead of dots.

 

I could have avoided both problems by photographing out of the front window, but probably Air Traffic Control would have declared me totally nuts, if my First Officer requested a 90° turn for about 5 minutes in order to enable his Captain take a better image of the starry skies...

 

Thanks for all your comments and faves!

Done