From the Vault: Observing the Milky Way

[Mike Salway]

In the From the Vault (http://www.mikesalway.com.au/tag/from-the-vault) series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen on my site before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me.

The feature image in From the Vault this week is titled Observing the Milky Way and I think it’s easy to see why. The image was taken at the South Pacific Star Party in April 2007, and shows our beautiful Milky Way Galaxy rising over the observing field at the star party.

It was a beautiful night at the star party though my astrophotography wasn’t going as planned. Taking this photo was a last minute decision that worked out perfectly.

Please click the link to see the image and read how I captured and processed it.

From the Vault: Observing the Milky Way (http://www.mikesalway.com.au/2009/02/13/from-the-vault-observing-the-milky-way)

Thanks for looking.

[ejicon]

Wow. that shot is breath taking. I really wish I had access to obscure places like this. Living in Hollywood, it's almost impossible unless you drive 3 hours east or south. Thanks for sharing. Incredible

[siddr20]

Lovely shot!!

I had taken several 5 minute exposures of the milky way with the tracking on, which gave me a choice of which one to use with the foreground image. The single 5 minute exposures were taken at ISO800 with my Canon 350D and Sigma 17-70mm lens @ 17mm.

Is it possible if you can post up an single 5 minute exposure photograph in here?

Just would like to see how it turned out before you started playing with the rest.

ta

[Desertraptor]

AWESOME