Milky Way Astro-seascapes & landscapes

[Richard A]

I'm quite lucky that I don't have to drive too far south to get quite dark skies. Wildlife can be a bit of a problem but I wouldn't see that much down there. The biggest thing is finding interesting foregrounds in the direction you want to point the camera.

 

[Richard A]

So I've been playing around with this shot for a few weeks and I'm finally pretty happy with it. This was the best shot I took I think (least affected by cloud).

• ILCE-7RM5
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 8 sec
• ISO 1600

Here is a version with less stars.

• ILCE-7RM5
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 8 sec
• ISO 1600

These are 60 shots stacked along with 20 dark frames in Starry Landscape Stacker. Processed in Photoshop.

I was thinking tonight would be a good night to go back down there to the spot I discovered a couple of days after taking these. Conditions were perfect until I remembered there's a nearly full moon. Hopefully it'll still be good in a week or so. This is probably about the best time of year here to do stuff like this, weather wise. Except the actual core of the Milky Way only rises about 3:00 - 3:30 in the morning. I'm looking forward to late winter now when it is horizontal across the western sky.