skypointer2000
Sheltered from the Vastness
The famous Aescher Guesthouse is cuddling the cliff, seemingly seeking shelter form the vastness of the universe.
When I see a great spot, I tend to immediately ask myself, if it could be used for nightscapes. Even though I have seen but one decent nightscape from the Aescher, the answer here is a definitive yes, but you need some careful planning:
Milky Way needs to be positioned almost vertically in the sky, but not yet hidden by the cliff. As the shot has to be taken from a narrow mountain trail, there is no possibility to move laterally and lighting the scene artificially is difficult and only possible from another trail that passes below the house.
The best time to take a nightscape from Aescher is therefore in August, about a week after full moon when you have time to capture the night sky and a bit later the foreground in the light of the rising moon.
That's what I did here: The night sky was photographed between astronomical dusk and moonrise and combined with the foreground that was photographed about an hour later during moonrise at a lower ISO setting.
- Canon EOS 7D mk2
- Samyang 10mm f/2.8
Sky:
- 12 x 25s @ ISO3200
- stacked with fitswork
Foreground:
3 panel panorama each consisting of:
- 5 x 60s @ ISO1600
- dark frame corrected and stacked in PS
- Stiched with PTGui
Sheltered from the Vastness
The famous Aescher Guesthouse is cuddling the cliff, seemingly seeking shelter form the vastness of the universe.
When I see a great spot, I tend to immediately ask myself, if it could be used for nightscapes. Even though I have seen but one decent nightscape from the Aescher, the answer here is a definitive yes, but you need some careful planning:
Milky Way needs to be positioned almost vertically in the sky, but not yet hidden by the cliff. As the shot has to be taken from a narrow mountain trail, there is no possibility to move laterally and lighting the scene artificially is difficult and only possible from another trail that passes below the house.
The best time to take a nightscape from Aescher is therefore in August, about a week after full moon when you have time to capture the night sky and a bit later the foreground in the light of the rising moon.
That's what I did here: The night sky was photographed between astronomical dusk and moonrise and combined with the foreground that was photographed about an hour later during moonrise at a lower ISO setting.
- Canon EOS 7D mk2
- Samyang 10mm f/2.8
Sky:
- 12 x 25s @ ISO3200
- stacked with fitswork
Foreground:
3 panel panorama each consisting of:
- 5 x 60s @ ISO1600
- dark frame corrected and stacked in PS
- Stiched with PTGui