How was this taken?

[tinman0]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-138...

Few pictures, but would love to know how the first picture was taken.

If it was long exposure there would be movement surely....

[14-7]

High ISO, probably somewhere between 20-30 seconds exposure otherwise the stars would start blurring.

[baz7175]

Having shot some pics of the Milky Way while over here in Oregon last summer, the key ingredient is having no man-made light around, i.e. in the middle of nowhere. My shots pale into insignificance compared to the shots these guys in the comp have produced, and coincidentally it was the creator of one of those shots (Ben Canales) that prompted me into going out into the wilderness of Oregon to see the Milky Way with my own eyes and capture it on the cam after seeing his amazing shots from the area.


Space - The Final Frontier by www.bazpics.com, on Flickr

You can find some of Ben's awesome work on his Flickr:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bencanales/

[Mojocvh]

http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/galleries_page.asp

[MadMullah]

Alot of the galaxy style pics were taken most likely in a place where there's very little light pollution, sparsely populated area's and not in the european atmosphere. (not saying they cant be taken around europe but...)

when you do hit the middle east etc at night time you really notice how differently the sky does look on a clear night.

so with the above settings, knowing where to look and on a night where there is no moon you could get that shot.

[AndWhyNot]

Zero light pollution gives the clarity, as does shooting at the right moon phase and time of year (Milky Way is brightest during Aug).

In terms of settings it's pretty much standard practice to shoot the MW at ISO3200 and f/2.8 for 30 seconds, all of which combine to give the best compromise between light transmission, image quality and an exposure duration which records stars as pin pricks rather than trails.

ETA shooting such a wide-field view also helps with the lack of movement in the stars. If you tried the same exposure duration at longer focal lengths you'd find a lot more star movement.

Edited by AndWhyNot on Sunday 22 May 11:58

[nellyleelephant]

AndWhyNot said:

ETA shooting such a wide-field view also helps with the lack of movement in the stars. If you tried the same exposure duration at longer focal lengths you'd find a lot more star movement.

This is true, unless you're any good at building things. For not much money, you can build one of these http://www.homebuiltastronomy.com/barndoor/index.h... and then you have the option of much longer exposures, even at longer focal lengths

[don4l]

I suspect that he used the same methods that he used on this photo .

7 Exposures of 15 seconds at iso 3200. The stars and ground are processed seperately. The star images have to be aligned before being stacked, which would blur all the ground features. There will also be some heavy duty noise reduction at this stage. These images are then averaged.


The original images are then reprocessed without alignment (or possibly a bit) to provide a sharp foreground. More noise reduction is done on these images. These are now averaged.

Photoshop is then used to combine the two images.

Don
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[Matt..]

They are usually made by 'stacking' images. You can use software like this:
http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html

[raf_gti]

baz7175 said:

Having shot some pics of the Milky Way while over here in Oregon last summer, the key ingredient is having no man-made light around, i.e. in the middle of nowhere. My shots pale into insignificance compared to the shots these guys in the comp have produced, and coincidentally it was the creator of one of those shots (Ben Canales) that prompted me into going out into the wilderness of Oregon to see the Milky Way with my own eyes and capture it on the cam after seeing his amazing shots from the area.


Space - The Final Frontier by www.bazpics.com, on Flickr

You can find some of Ben's awesome work on his Flickr:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bencanales/

Fantastic and frustrating!

I've been to several places recently where there has been almost zero light pollution, clear night and I've yet to see anything other than un-remarkable nights.