Milkyway nightscapes

Celestron wrote in post #18003461
Great captures , love the edit ! How long did you stay at the state park and how did you like it ? I been to Palo Duro Canyon just north of there and it's also very nice but I wasn't there at night , just a day trip .

Many thanks! I actually only stayed a single night this time, though I've been a couple of times prior. I had a one night window for clear skies and an understanding wife, so I headed out from Dallas at noon on Thursday, made the hike up, spent the night shooting, then hiked out and drove back the next morning.

Did you catch the Texas play in the canyon? It's kitschy, but you can't beat the venue.

Aks

Aks6674 wrote in post #18007636
Many thanks! I actually only stayed a single night this time, though I've been a couple of times prior. I had a one night window for clear skies and an understanding wife, so I headed out from Dallas at noon on Thursday, made the hike up, spent the night shooting, then hiked out and drove back the next morning.

Did you catch the Texas play in the canyon? It's kitschy, but you can't beat the venue.

Aks

Me and the wife caught the Texas play for July 4th back a couple years or so . It was great and I highly recommend it !_

Not quite a "nightscape" of typical sorts, more of a self portrait I guess, just doing some stargazing while D600 was taking long exposures on the Skytracker. Decided to setup my D7000 + Rokinon 24mm f1.4 behind me and do a "bokeh" shot with the focus on the D600 and the Milky Way out of focus.

Another one of those bokeh shots, this one with the moon still up illuminating the foreground (a sand dune about 6 feet tall), Milky Way is a bit washed out but in the upper left of the picture. This one was taken with my D600 and Rokinon 85mm f1.4 lens on the Skytracker mount, foreground is 4 shots (skytracker off, obviously), sky is 4 shots, all 1 minute exposures at ISO 400 and f1.4.

Love this shot so much. Maybe get a tall chair to sit in so you are in focus along with the gear would make this incredible!

pdxbenedetti wrote in post #18008001
Not quite a "nightscape" of typical sorts, more of a self portrait I guess, just doing some stargazing while D600 was taking long exposures on the Skytracker. Decided to setup my D7000 + Rokinon 24mm f1.4 behind me and do a "bokeh" shot with the focus on the D600 and the Milky Way out of focus.

I can't get over how prominent the MW is in this shot. I was out last night and couldn't even find the MW.

Gutterscum wrote in post #18008556
Love this shot so much. Maybe get a tall chair to sit in so you are in focus along with the gear would make this incredible!

Thanks, believe me I was thinking about having my camping chair all night, I hiked quite a ways from my truck and didn't bring my chair with me on the way out. By the time I had gotten everything setup I was too lazy to walk back and get it, lol.

ptcanon3ti wrote in post #18008658
I can't get over how prominent the MW is in this shot. I was out last night and couldn't even find the MW.

This was taken from a fairly dark zone away from city lights, I see you're on the east coast which makes finding the MW extremely difficult due to light pollution. Give this website a look to see if it's possible to do something like this, from what I've found you won't get decent MW views from anything brighter than a yellow zone. Green zones are darker are about where you start to get decent MW brightness.

http://darksitefinder.​com/maps/world.html

This shot is very other worldy... kinda expecting Kirk and Spock to be in it somewhere lol

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ptcanon3ti wrote in post #18008658
I can't get over how prominent the MW is in this shot. I was out last night and couldn't even find the MW.

you in a light polluted area I assume ?

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Driving to another milky way location we came across this cool looking hall at Mahurangi, only 35 minutes from Auckland CBD

I just downloaded the NIK sofware suite and this was edited in Lightroom using only Nik software.

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I like the path of stars to ward westward due to the short traced tail.

One from last night, not entirely happy with the processing

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Excellent! right position and right time in great clarity

Well stretched Galactic disk is shown in great detail. The tree provide the size and angle of the Milky way band's scale well.