The Milky Way Setting at IISAC2009

[Mike Salway]

Hi all

On Thursday night when the sky was clear, the Milky Way looked lovely setting over the mountain in the West. So on Friday night, 16th October at IISAC2009, I setup my Canon 20D and 24-105mm L lens on a tripod, and programmed it to take 30 seconds exposures on repeat.

I combined the result into a timelapse movie. There’s also a single star trails image with all of the frames combined.

Timelapse of the Milky Way Setting (on YouTube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7X7ZKYwV4Q).

More details and the star trails image here:

The Milky Way Setting at IISAC2009 (http://www.mikesalway.com.au/2009/11/06/the-milky-way-setting-at-iisac2009)

Thanks for looking.

[cool breeze]

very cool!

[Celestron]

WOW Mike :shock: ! Great job ! What is the Bortle Scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_Dark-Sky_Scale) for the area you took the shots from ? Were all shots originally taken in RAW ?

[wingandaprayer72]

God, that came out great.

[Harm]

Fantastic!

[Mike Salway]

Thanks guys, appreciate your comments.

WOW Mike :shock: ! Great job ! What is the Bortle Scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_Dark-Sky_Scale) for the area you took the shots from ? Were all shots originally taken in RAW ?

I'm not exactly sure on the Bortle scale, but i'd say it's between a class 2 and 3.

I did take all the original shots in RAW, but StarTrails.de only accepts TIF and JPG, and it only outputs 8 bit TIF's, so I just processed them in large jpegs.

[highstakes]

Very nice!

[risingwolf]

Very nice, cool idea I have to try it sometime.

[rlrouse]

What a great video! I've never seen anything like that before.

[ejicon]

You're a master at what you do

[ieatstars]

The timelapse is absolutely stunning!! I wish I had beautifully starry nights like that here. Can't wait to get out of the city :) Really great work!

[Mike Salway]

Thanks - I really appreciate your kind words!