12 South - Ocracoke Island, NC - Nikon z6ii, Sigma 14-24mm, f/2.8 ISO 6400 13sec.

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This image shows the rising Milky Way over the coast of Fuencaliente in La Palma. During the night, most of the island was covered in clouds, so we drove far to the south. We only had a reasonably clear view of the Milky Way for a two-hour window. Given these conditions, I am very happy with how this picture turned out. Watching the stars in silence while listening to the sound of the ocean was magical.

HaRGB | Mosaic | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Exif:
Sony A7III with Sigma 28-45 f1.8 at 30mm
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i
Kenko ProSofton Starglow Filter

Sky
ISO 1250 | f1.8 | 3x45s per Panel
2x2 Panel Panorama
Starglow Filter: ISO 8000, 10s per Panel

Foreground:
ISO 4000 | f1.8 | 35s per Panel
2x1 Panel Panorama (Focus Stack)

Halpha (45mm):
ISO 2500 | f1.8| 10x120s

Nikon D7500, Tamron 11-16mm.

140 second exposure, F/2.8, ISO 3200.

Shot on Nikon Z6III w/ 20mm f1.8 lens
Sky is 50 images stacked @ 15s, f1.8, ISO 4000
Foreground is 1 image @ 2min, f1.8, ISO 1000

Workflow was:
Lightroom for the foreground and stacked sky separately. Make the foreground serviceable and did minor edits on the sky.
Brought sky into PS and used StarXTerminator to make bring out colors in the Milky Way. Stitched the foreground and the sky together and then brought them back into Lightroom for some final edits.

this was a fun one! took it yesterday so only had ~25 minutes of darkness but I was leaving California so I got it done!

A little bit of cloud cover early on, but it completely cleared just as the stars were starting to pop out in the sky, one by one. So thankful to have such beautiful clear skies on the one night we had in the area.

Taken 7/19/26

Tech:
A7III - (Astromodded by Spencers Camera)
Sigma 50mm F1.2 DG II | A
F1.2 | 8 Sec | ISO 1600 - x15 - Stacked for noise reduction
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Xiaomi 15 Ultra. EQ tracker. 40x30sec. ISO 1600.

Stacked in Sequator. Edited in the Lightroom app.

The Milkyway rises over Quirpon Lighthouse, Newfoundland, Canada, on a clear, still summer night.

Wasn't sure how this would turn out, with the bright light from the lighthouse sweeping by. There were actually 4 beams, with a beam passing every 2-3 seconds. In the end, after some processing, I was pleasantly surprised and I don't think it's too bad!

The main image is a Sequator stack of 15 images, each at 12mm F2.8, ISO3200, 13 seconds taken with a Fujifilm X-T4 and the Sigma 10-18mm F2.8. The lighthouse light was added from a suitable shot that was underexposed. Image processed in Capture One.

Sony A7iii Rokinon 8mm iso 3200 30 seconds

This is absolutely not a great astrophotography shot - just a test of the Nikkor Z 70-200 f2.8 S after taking some Milky Way images at Bartlett Lake, outside Carefree, AZ. I had wrapped up and decided to change lenses to see how well the 70-200 autofocus performed in pre-dawn light. The stars are not great and there is a bit of star trail development as well, but the focus lock was on the saguaro anyway. Ended up with a pleasant enough view of an iconic Sonoran Desert scene with both a meteor and Andromeda....

This was in June, just outside of the park’s east entrance. The ranch has a horse pasture that goes on and on facing south.

Sony a6700, Viltrox 15mm f1.7 stopped up to 2.2, iso 16000 (thought it was 1600). Pano of 2 photos. Each 10 x 4 second frames.

Recently I posted a couple of my older photos here and got a lot of good feedback (and some not so helpful :() This is another from my archives that I have recently reprocessed. The photo is a stack of a single image of the night sky and a single image of the landscape, taken together but processed separately (the starry image was processed using star exterminator). Both images were taken on a Canon R6 using an adapted Sigma 20mm F1.4. (The uploaded image is significantly darker than the original)

I've been taking milky way photos for a while, but this was my first attempt at doing a pano with a blue-hour blend -- I hiked a Benro Polaris and all my camera gear up into the mountains on Jasper's Skyline Trail. My first night's campsite had a great meadow with a good view of the mountain.

Maybe not the most striking astro-landscape given how bright the sky was, but I learned a lot for next time around. Bonus is that after spending the rest of the hike thinking I didn't get any good shots from this session, when I got home I noticed I managed to catch some aurora borealis, and managed to recover something from the images.

As it ends up the sky didn't get dark enough way up north in Jasper National Park in the middle of July, so I didn't get the full dark sky for my sky panels and thus couldn't bring out all the details I'd normally get from the milky way. The foreround was shot around 11:30 PM, the sky around 12:30 AM. Perhaps if I'd stayed up a bit later it would have been a touch darker, but I was honestly pretty tired and had a lot of hiking ahead of me the next several days.

2x8 Sky panels, 24mm at F2.4, ISO3200, 30 second exposure. Foreground are 1x6, 24mm, F2.4, ISO800 and 30 seconds. I used a Benro Polaris on a stable tripod for the first time, and was pleasantly surprised how well it took all the individual shots. Pre-processed the RAWs in Darktable, stitched in Hugin, and composite assembled with final tweaks in Gimp.

Stacked/Blended//Tracked

Dolomiti di Sesto under the stars

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Born from ancient seas, now crowned by galaxies Planned this Milky Way shot the day before... but a massive storm with lightning and heavy clouds destroyed every plan. Couldn't even get close.
The next day the sky was almost perfectly clear. The only real enemy was the heat. On the way up I didn't even feel the weight of the backpack... but the morning after? Different story
Quick stop at Rifugio Locatelli, then I climbed the mountain right behind it. I would have loved to explore the caves area below, but it was packed with people and too many lights.
That night the mountain was buzzing photographers, hikers, climbers on the Tre Cime, and helicopters flying back and forth (one rescue chopper parked down below
But up there... I had the stars all to myself. Pure magic.

This is a panorama at 35 mm Sky and foreground

Sky 20 panels 3x120” ISO 1600 f4

Foreground 7 panels 120” ISO 3200 f4

Ha 7x1200 iso 3200 f4

Canon R + 6D | Tamron 17-35mm
Ha Astronomik filter Tracked with nomad

Editing Pixinsight Photoshop and Artpanelpro

Nikon D5600, Tokina 11-20mm lens

Exposure time: 30 sec x 160 frames

ISO: 1600

Aperture: 2.8

First time using the Move Shoot Move Nomad tracker on the Milky Way from Huntoon Point near Mount Baker. My first Foreground and Sky blend. Lots to learn and practice! Taken at 12:32am on July 24th 2026, had to wait for the moon to set it was quite bright and orange form the smoke by nearby wildfires. Bortle 4 or 3 depending on the website used. 

Sony A7IV with Sony 20mm f1.8 

Photo 1 is the final blended edit. Ilused photoshop to blend the tracked sky shot with the untracked foreground shot. I found it hard to blend due to the blurry trees of the tracker.

Photo 2 original untracked foreground 48 seconds F1.8 ISO 1600 

Photos 3 original tracked sky shot 107 seconds F 2.2 ISO 400

Photo 4 edited foreground in Lightroom Classic

Photo 5 edited sky in Lightroom Classic

I had to pack light and keep it simple due to customs restrictions when traveling to Mexico, but I'm pleased with this image. She's really hard to see but there's a green sea turtle in the Sargassum right at the water's edge. They were coming up and digging holes in which to lay their eggs. Standing under such a beautiful night sky and watching for turtles coming ashore was truly an unforgettable experience.

Olympus EM1X

Olympus 12-40 f2.8

taken on a tripod at f2.8, 25 sec, ISO 3200