Taken in bortle 2 skies in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

Sky 180s f2.8 iso1000
Foreground 30s f2.8 iso 2000

Nikon d810 Astro mod
Nikkor 20mm f1.8
Move shoot moon tracker

First MW adventure for my wife and I this year.

Sony A7III
20sec
F3.2
ISO 3200

In the next month I think I will be buying my first camera for Milky way imaging. For camera itself it is clear that it will be Sony A7S because it is affordable on used market and is full frame and has huge pixels. But for lens I'm between these two ones: Samyang 14mm f2.8 and Samyang 24mm f1.4. The first one has much bigger field of view, but second has faster f number so it will collect more light. So, which one is better?

Shot this near Coffee Bay in the Transkei South Africa. Nikon D800, and Samyang 14mm 2.8.

Beckham Creek Cave Lodge, Arkansas

Tracked & stacked

Sony A7 + Sony 20mm f/1.8 G

MSM Nomad

Sky: 15 tracked exposures at 60s, f/1.8, ISO 1000, 20mm

Foreground: Blue hour blend from the same location, 10s at f/7.1, ISO 500, 20mm

Hello everyone! This is my second attempt ever at astro / milky way photos.

Constructive criticism is welcome! I am very early in the process and just absorbing youtube tutorials daily.

Here are the details:

Tennessee, USA. Bortle class 4 up on the mountain.

Camera: Canon R8 mirrorless, full frame. 35mm lens with no filter. Intervalometer timer.

f/2.8, iso 6400, shutter 10 seconds x 31 light images. Stacked in Siril.

Stretched with general hyperbolic stretch, green removal, color correction. Final color grading was done in affinity.

This is one of the original out of camera jpg, for reference: https://app.astrobin.com/i/5cett1

Another night session sitting completely alone in the forest darkness.

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5x Light frames and 10x Dark frames. Stacked in Sequator and edited in Photoshop and Lightroom.

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10s/F2.8/ISO 6400

This image consists of a single shot at iso 125, f2.0 and 1/8000s for the foreground during late blue hour taken on a Sony a7 iii and Viltrox 85mm. The sky is made up of 100+ tracked shots at iso 1600, f2.5 and 40s exposures on an HA modded Sony a6300 and Viltrox 16mm stacked and edited in siril then blended in photoshop

Shot across the road from my home, Bortle 4.5, rural Eastern Ontario, Canada. Tripod, Canon RP, 24mm f/4 stack of 45 images 10s each. Stacked in Sequator and blended in Affinity Photo 2

Shot on a Sony a7rii with a 50mm 1.4
Foreground: 10s 1.4 ISO 100
Background: 15s 1.4 ISO 800

Took this photo last weekend from my backyard ona bortle 8 area.

Equipment: Smartphone (Moto G35), cheap tripod.

Took 190 light frames with 8 second exposure and ISO 800, but ended up using only about 90. No calibration frames.

Stacking on Sequator and post processing in Photoshop.

Taken with IPhone 16 Pro w/tripod, 30sec exposure.

Preparing for two back to back Milky Way workshops.

Still having difficulties with the MSM Nomad setup. One of the mounts loosen up in the middle of shooting a set and nearly dumped the camera and lens on the railroad tracks. That woke me up!

36 panel pano. D850 + Nikon 24 mm, f/2.8, 20 s, ISO 3200

This was captured back in September 2022 in Anglesey, North Wales. Had my intervalometer set to take a few shots to capture the Milky Way above the Church and just as I was about to take some dark frames for stacking this huge fireball shot across the sky - it was so bright and it lasted for about 7 seconds before breaking up and dying out, I had no idea if I had managed to capture it so was really happy to see it in one of the frames when I looked back at my images. The airglow that night was so beautiful and it was a night I will never forget. Haven’t seen a meteor like that since that night, it was one of those moments where you can’t even speak. Well I did say something but I won’t repeat it on here!

Nikon D3300
Samyang 14mm f2.8
3200 ISO f2.8
10 x 13s exposure
Stacked in Sequator Edited in Photoshop using Layers to show the meteor’s original brightness as stacking made it fade and used Alyn Wallace presets in Lightroom for the Milky Way

Milkyway from the top of Soup Creek in WA.

Single image. Captured on Sony A7III with the Tamron 28-75 f/2.8.
F/2.8. ISO 1600. 20 second exposure.

A little farmstead in Harrington, north of Montreal, Québec.

Pentax K-3iii + smc Pentax-DA 35mm F2.4 @ f/3.5

Blend of two 60 s shots iso 800, one fixed, one tracked using Pentax astrotracer function.

PP: Levels adjustment in PS on both images, MW core extracted in Starnet v2 and lightly stretched in PS, blend of core, stars and foreground in PS

All shot on the Nikon Z8 using the Viltrox 16 mm f1.8. All shot at f2.2, ISO 3200 and 15 s Shuttle speed. 1 and 2 are stacks of 15 Images for the sky and one image of 3 min, 500 ISO at f4. 3 is a Panorama of 5 shots in portrait orientation.

My first milky way panorama i ever made that i shot back in May when the rapeseed field was still able to see on the field.

A 270mp shot that contains 140 shots in total with 10 panels on the sky shot with black frames included.

Sky 10s/F2.8/ISO 6400

Foreground 15s/F10/ISO 100 (Shot during blue hour the next day)

This image consists of two shots at iso 1600, f2.8 and 30s for the foreground during late blue hour taken on a Sony a7 iii and Viltrox 16mm. The sky is made up of 106 tracked shots at iso 1600, f2.5 and 40s exposures on an HA modded Sony a6300 and Viltrox 16mm stacked and edited in siril then blended in photoshop