The Milky Way over the Isle Of Wight.

[Denis]

My first serious attempt at night sky photos was done by chance this week. We were away in the campervan and rocked up for the night at a little place called Milford On Sea that is on the coast just across the water from the Isle of Wight. We met a chap who had the biggest portable motorised Telescope I had seen and was out to look at Saturn. When he told me the position in the sky of  where to photograph the Milky Way, he then pointed out the Comet ! Both of these were indistinguishableto my poor old eyes until I pointed the Tokina lens at them and took a few shots

We are now home and I put these through Lightroom this morning and quite pleased with the results as a first attempt. Now we have a nearby (sort of) Dark Sky area to visit now and again!

The International Space Station shoots across the Milky Way...

And THE Comet

 

D7500 + Tokina 11-15 f2.8 DXII Pro @ 11mm- with a 20 Second Exposure @ 3200 ISO

[David995031]

Terrific stuff, Denis. Number one is a beauty.

[johntwo]

Never tried this but for a first try you must be quite pleased.  Very nice series.  Good work.

[Clicker]

I’d w be very pleased if I d taken these too... I have no experience with any astral togging at all so flippin’ we’ll done Denis ...an awesome start to your newest venture ..

[Denis]

3 hours ago, David995031 said:

Terrific stuff, Denis. Number one is a beauty.

A friend of mine replied to the picture as I have also posted it on 'Faceache'...he asked how many stacked images had I used to get the pic looking like this, he was a bit surprised to learn that I hadn't !

[Stravinsky]

Number 1 is my favourite, nice set 

[Paul]

A fine astronomical series.

Paul.

[Ryewolf]

Excellent set Denis, looks like you were luck having a cloudless sky too.

[Denis]

It was perfect conditions for the two days we ended up spending there, such a great little village really, all the locals were really friendly too. We will come back here again.

[FUJI]

Incredible work Denis.... your patience has been rewarded.

FUJI

[Ryewolf]

1 hour ago, Denis said:

It was perfect conditions for the two days we ended up spending there, such a great little village really, all the locals were really friendly too. We will come back here again.

I suppose this really makes up for all the times when you were stuck in places in industrial estates.... where you couldn't take images... Image #1 is a POTW Winner