The Smoke of Creation

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Macaroon

A bemused & bewildered
Jan 5, 2013
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That's a superb image, and your title for it is absolutely spot on; thanks for posting this..........................atb mac
 

Wayland

Hárbarðr
That's really, really, nice. Any chance you could tell us details about exposure, ISO, etc?

No problem.

It's four exposures, 20 seconds f/2.8 iso 6400 each, loaded into PhotoShop as layers.

The layers are rotated to register them. (The world is turning so the stars appear to move between exposures)

Blending the layers in "Soft Light" mode increases the contrast pixel to pixel but reduces the fixed pattern noise and the foreground is then masked from the top three layers.

Sounds involved but fairly straight forward in practice.
 

Dave

Hill Dweller
Sep 17, 2003
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I cant remember seeing the milkyway rising vertically like that. Its normally horizontal, when I look up.

Did you time your visit and location to coincide with the sky, and the 'chimney pot' or was it just coincidental?

Very nice photo.
 
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Wayland

Hárbarðr
I cant remember seeing the milkyway rising vertically like that. Its normally horizontal, when I look up.

Did you time your visit and location to coincide with the sky, and the 'chimney pot' or was it just coincidental?

Very nice photo.

A touch of serendipity.

I use an Astronomy App to predict the skies so I knew that would be the position during the astronomical dark and I knew the moon would be off to my left but I didn't know about the location until I found it during the day.

Llanddwyn-Milky-Way-R14-II.jpg


I was in that area because my previous best attempt was on Anglesey in April but I was plagued even there by light pollution.

The Llyn Peninsula was supposed to be a bit darker so I gave it a try.
 
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Turnstone

Full Member
Apr 9, 2013
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Germany
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

We have too much light pollution. On a good night you can see the milky way, but just a faint of it. It always amazes me how stunning it is when you can watch it in a clear, unpolluted sky!
 

Wayland

Hárbarðr
Light pollution is a huge issue in this country. There are very few places where you can even see the milky Way let alone photograph it.

I thought very seriously about taking up Astronomy but then realised I would need to travel miles on the very few occasions that we get a really clear night just to get away from all the stray Sodium lighting.
 
Nov 29, 2004
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Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

We have too much light pollution. On a good night you can see the milky way, but just a faint of it. It always amazes me how stunning it is when you can watch it in a clear, unpolluted sky!

Ignoring the whole 'you cannot see the night sky thing' the amount of energy we waste lighting up the sky must be huge. At my place in Scotland I'm fairly lucky being quite remote however I have travelled in quite out of the way parts of Africa so I know what I'm missing. :(
 

PeterH

Settler
Oct 29, 2007
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Milton Keynes
Ironically it improved slightly round here as the council turn off loads of streetlights, then the next lot got in and turned them back on. Presumably so the morons can drive round in their cars without realising the have no lights on.

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Gweedo

Forager
Jun 23, 2005
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Wales
In addition to my bushcraft, I enjoy astronomy and have a 10" dob. Light pollution is a huge issue, but you can mitigate it somewhat with narrowband filters that block out the wavelength from street lights. Not as good as being somewhere truly dark though and I'm glad that some of the national parks are making steps towards being dark.

The night sky is truly awesome if you get the chance to see it properly.
 
Nov 29, 2004
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Scotland
Are the photos straight off the camera or have they been 'enhanced' in some way ? :rolleyes:

From an earlier post...

It's four exposures, 20 seconds f/2.8 iso 6400 each, loaded into PhotoShop as layers.

The layers are rotated to register them. (The world is turning so the stars appear to move between exposures)

Blending the layers in "Soft Light" mode increases the contrast pixel to pixel but reduces the fixed pattern noise and the foreground is then masked from the top three layers.

Sounds involved but fairly straight forward in practice.

:)
 

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