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#milkyway

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Jeff
In my off season this past fall, I decided to go to Kauai and go backpacking all over the island. Coming from Alaska it was quite pleasant to wear shorts constantly and have good fresh fruit everywhere you went. While I was camping on the west side of the island I decided to pull the camera out and get some Milky Way shots. What I totally forgot about was the #comet C/2023 A3 passing by our planet.

The hooting and hollering that I made when I first looked at the image could be heard for miles.

The upper part of the cloud is lit up from the moon rising behind the island creating a very pleasing image.
I am shooting this on a #sony A7iii with a 20mm f1.8 lens. 30” exposure, iso 1250

#milkyway #astrophotography #comet #sonyalpha #kauai #hawaii #beaches #nightsky #ocean #nature #hiking #camping
#camping
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ESO

Planetary party portrait above Paranal!

In this image, taken in early February, the planets of the Solar System appear to parade one after the other above our Paranal Observatory in #Chile. Joining the party are the #Moon, the #MilkyWay, and a special guest: comet C/2024 G3 ☄️

A question we often get is whether the planets orbit the Sun in the same plane as the disc of the Milky Way. This image shows that's not the case: the plane of the Solar System –the ecliptic– is tilted about 60º relative to the Milky Way.

Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw2510

📷 B.Haeussler/ESO

The image is a circular fisheye projection, with the horizon around the circular edge and the highest part of the sky at the centre of the circle. It shows eight telescope domes around the edge. The moon lights the telescopes and the desert from behind, creating a haze across, but above it the sky is pretty dark and full of stars. Our Milky Way galaxy –– an arc made dense by white points and hues of pink and purple –– crosses the image vertically. Several planets, which look like dots, appear aligned more or less horizontally across the sky. The image is marked with text for white points of interest, including the Milky Way, planets and comet C/2024 G3, which looks like the streak of a shooting star, blazing white.
#astrodon#astronomy#astrophysics
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Michael King
I had to go back to Sarah Ann Rocks in north west Tasmania, the coastline is stunning and perfectly aligned for a shot of the Milky Way in October. The third image in this set was captured on the first visit in 2022. I believed I could capture a better image, so returned a year later and captured the first two images here. #photography #astro #astrophotography #nightskyphotography #milkyway #milkyway-photography #nature #naturephotography #coast #tasmania #seascape #seascapephotography
The Milky Way with the setting moon over the rugged coastline at Sarah Ann Rocks
The Milky Way with the setting moon from the beach at Sarah Ann Rocks
The first attempt to capture the Milky Way from the beach at Sarah Ann Rocks.
#seascapephotography
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David de Groot 📸

Guess who forgot to pack their tripod and ultra-wide lens?

So this is two 35mm shots with the camera balanced on a stool, held up on an angle with my phone (on its side) and the phone stand for the higher angle, then stitched in Lightroom.

Not great by any means, but who can resist a bit of milky way when you're in a dark area?

Part of the Milky Way, with the Southern Cross towards the bottom above the trees,.
#night#sky#stars
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Jason Baluyut

Late night thoughts: The US motto “E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, one”) literally means fostering INCLUSION out of DIVERSITY.

Which is also what a galaxy is: a single shining entity made of a multitude of stars. Erase some, and its light dims. Erase enough, destroy enough gravitational bonds, and I suppose it all breaks up and scatters into the dark.

Anyway, here’s another Milky Way pic. (Shot on iPhone 15)

The Milky Way galaxy over the silhouette of a forested hillside. Some light trails from planes or satellites are also visible.
#uspol#milkyway#photography
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Donncha Ó Caoimh

Milky Way Over the Costa Brava

In July 2022, I was in Llafranc and wondered if I'd be able to photograph the Milky Way. Dark skies maps of the area showed glowing lights all along the coast, and it seemed unlikely, but I wandered down to the beach one night to try. I was pleased with the result because there was no way I could see anything like this with my bare eyes! There was too much light around.

inphotos.org/2025/02/16/milky-

A long exposure shot of the night sky in Llafranc, Spain, showing the Milky Way over a coastline with illuminated trees, boats are visible on the water's edge.
#photo#photography#MilkyWay
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Paul Knightly
This was a challenging photo. I captured it about 7 years ago while driving from Salt Lake City up to southern Montana to be in a friend's wedding. When I started looking into the logistics of my arrival time, I realized there would be an opportunity to photograph the Milky Way somewhere under the dark skies of northern Utah or southern Idaho. Not wanting to stray too far off the highway, I looked for areas that might offer a unique foreground for the composition.

I soon realized that the highway alignment (northwest to southeast) would allow for a "highway to the stars" type of image, and started looking for an ideal overpass. This one caught my eye and I couldn't have been happier with the results. It took some time to capture, as it was necessary to get all of the Milky Way images without traffic on the highway, and then of course I needed to get a few images with light trails from the cars on the highway below.

I didn't have star tracker at the time, but other than that there are few things I would've changed considering the challenge and how it turned out!

#Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #MilkyWay #Landscape #LandscapePhotography
An image of the star field of the Milky Way reaching down towards the horizon, where it meets with the vanishing point of an interstate highway highway. Light trails from vehicle lights zip towards the confluence with the Milky Way, creating a "highway to the stars" effect.
#landscapephotography
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Howard Cheng

I was looking to enter an earlier edit of this shot into the Nat Geo travel #photography competition for the landscape category, but realised I couldn't as that photo was stacked and then had still foreground merged back into the image, which would be against the rules for comp since "only minor burning, dodging and/or colour correction is acceptable, as is cropping".

So I revisited this shot using only one single frame. I quite like this version, actually.

A view of the night sky above a frozen Lake Madeline near Yellowknife, Canada. Among the many cosmic wonders visible in this frame is the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way, and the aurora borealis (northern lights).
#MilkyWay#Astrophotography#Aurora
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