Milky Way Chasers

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Kevin Shearer at Mt Rainier — REPOST: @k.d.s.photography from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Kevin about this image: --- PANO http://ift.tt/1LID9AA http://ift.tt/2FCZlyI EXIF: 5 shots, Sony A7s2 with the Sigma 35mm 1.4 lens (Nikon mount) with the novoflex adapter. Not sure what F-stop was since no electronic communication exists between the adapter and the camera but I did stop down so I assume it was around f2.8. Each shot was ISO 6400 for 13 secs. Story: This was from 2016 up at Mt Rainier and I thought I was going to be skunked again at this spot. One month prior I had gone and was totally fogged in and left empty handed. This trip was starting the same way but this time my buddy Steve (Steve Schwindt Photography) and I climbed up high and right when Steve was ready to quit the fog finally cleared and allowed us to capture this. This is from the Sunrise Visitors Center and if you havent been there put it on your list. Thanks for looking. ---- http://ift.tt/2EH8SDE

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Mark Stoker at Black Tusk --- REPOST: @mstokerphotos from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ --- Milky Way Chasers Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Mark about this image: --- STACKED / BLEND --- http://ift.tt/2Ds2WPs --- The Milky Way shining in the night sky above Black Tusk. --- This was taken last June during a backpacking trip in Garibaldi Provincial Park. After enduring many months of dreary, wet weather in southern BC, summer finally arrived in full force and I took full advantage of it by hiking up Empetrum Peak in Garibaldi. The route up Empetrum was still mostly covered in snow, however it was hard-packed and snowshoes weren't necessary. As it was only a few days after the summer solstice, it did not get truly dark until after midnight. The sky remained clear all night, and despite the considerable glow along the southern horizon from the Vancouver city lights, the Milky Way shone brightly. This is a stack of images, taken from just below the summit of Empetrum Peak and stacked using Sequator. I'm looking forward to this year's Milky Way season! --- EXIF: Sony a6000 Samyang 12mm f/2.0 Sky: 65 images stacked with Sequator (f/2.0, ISO 1600, 25 sec) Foreground: f/2.0, ISO 400, 124 sec --- http://ift.tt/2CYZWJ4

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Matt Aust in Austria — REPOST: @startrails_matt_aust from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @tracyleephotos — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Matt about this image: --- PANO http://ift.tt/2fAyaKn http://ift.tt/2jby0Yk I took this one in May on a little photo tour in Austria. I actually wanted to hike up a mountain but there was still plenty of snow, so I decided to stay safe in a lower area. Which actually was a better location than the mountain top I was aiming for when I started. Anyway, spend the night taking photos and got some hours of sleep in my tent. Pretty calm night with no one around, those are the healing nights. Thanks for watching everyone! Slightly cropped single row pano made of 16 images taken with an astro modded Sony A7s, Samyang 14 f2.8 at 20s and ISO 8.000. Singles processed in LR, stitched in PTGui and finally processed in PS. ---- http://ift.tt/2mp2xFf

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Dale Boan at the Thumb — REPOST: @daleboan from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Dale about this image: --- TRACKED SOCIAL http://ift.tt/2mwsrHZ fb.com/dale.boan daleboanimaging.com STORY. We arrived at Monument Valley in the afternoon as part of whirlwind tour of Arizona. Visitors are not allowed in the valley at night unless they have a guide. I managed to hire a guide to take the crazy person out during the 2 hour window between the Milky Way rising and morning twilight. We stayed for sunrise but a cloudless dessert sky made for my the most boring sunrise time lapse ever. Fortunately, this shot taken at The Thumb formation made the whole adventure worth while. EXIF: Canon 7Dm2, Tokina 11-20 f2.8, 13mm, f2.8, 180s, ISO 800. iOptron SkyTracker mount. Single foreground and sky images composited. --- http://ift.tt/2qZtxk4

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Matt Dieterich — REPOST: @mattdieterichphotography from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @tracyleephotos — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Matt about this image: --- SINGLE SOCIAL http://ift.tt/2mmwaXL http://ift.tt/2D2VHzr STORY One of the deepest and highest elevation lakes in the world, Crater Lake is truly a remarkable park to visit. Some of the darkest night skies are here as well for stargazers 👍😃 A resolution of mine for this year is to limit editing time for each photo to 20 minutes. Hopefully this will help me get content out and off the hard drive. EXIF Nikon D750, 24mm F1.4, ISO 5000, 15 sec --- . . . . . #longexposure_shots #nightimages #nightshooterz #nightshooters #nightpics #milkywaygalaxy #astrophotography #astrophoto #astro_photography_ #astro_photography #longexposure #longexpohunter #longexpo #amazing_longexpo #amazingearth #natgeospace #milkyway #nightphotography #night_excl #amazingphotohunter #fantasticuniverse http://ift.tt/2D6joH6

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Amirreza Kamkar at Avenue of the Baobabs. — REPOST: @amirrezakamkar from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @matthewsavillephoto — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Amirreza about this image: --- TRACKED nightscapepics.com http://ift.tt/2oMR5X4 Dark sky, wonderful trees and amazing landscapes, southern latitude, what do you want more to take a good nightscape image?! Here is a view from my last summer trip to Avenue of Baobabs in Madagascar. One of the most memorable nights in my life. Modified Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 15mm fisheye f/2.8@f/4, 45s exposure (by using Vixen POLARIE star tracker) ISO 3200 ---- http://ift.tt/2qXDYF4

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Maxime Sacré on the South Island in New Zealand — REPOST: @maximesacre from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Maxime about this image: --- PANO http://ift.tt/2yOclQm http://ift.tt/2y7bQgE One of my last night spent on the South Island in New Zealand. I was hoping for the Aurora australis to show up, even though I was on the top of the Island, in Farewell Spit. Nothing happened, but the sky was so clear I had to make another 180° shot. I thought I could also try to stand in the middle below the arch of the Milky Way. This is quite a classic shot but I like how it turned out with the airglow at the horizon and the reflection from the low tide water. Gear and settings: Canon 500D & Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 22 pictures stitched at f/2.8 / ISO 6400 / 20s ---- http://ift.tt/2mnNo7Z

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Wayne Pinkston at Sunset Arch — REPOST: @wayne_pinkston from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Wayne about this image: --- Single 14-24 lens, 20 mm, f 2.8,25 sec., ISO 6400, Nikon 810A Sunset Arch, Escalante. Low Level Lighting, LLL, used under the Arch, and dim LLL used on the outside of the arch. The tricky part here was to light the underside of the arch without getting hot spots. It turned out to be more difficult than expected. I finally achieved a reasonable amount of light using to small Goal Zero Micro Lanterns with home made warming filters. There is a single light panel lighting the outside with a Ceneriod light panel on low and adjusted to a warm color temperature. The Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument is a terrific dark sky location, recently drastically reduced in size by the government. This was taken while assisting during a workshop by Royce Bair, a terrific teacher. Check out his ebook! http://ift.tt/2dWi8Ws waynepinkstonphoto.com http://ift.tt/2islmHh http://ift.tt/2lWhTPs --- http://ift.tt/2CMhxnt

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Paul Wilson at Southern Bays — REPOST: @paul_wilson_images from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Paul about this image: --- Pano "Empyreal" I shot this at Southern Bays near Christchurch, New Zealand back in April 2017, there had been Aurora displays the few nights before but I was unable to shoot, I thought I'd try my luck and head out even though the KP wasn't very high. I set up the iPano and programmed it to start on the bottom row, during the test shots there wasn't much activity, by the time the iPano robotic panoramic head got to the middle rows the Aurora had really flared up! Very lucky! This enabled me to take a high resolution Aurora shot, before editing and cropping the image was 38310 x 15762px, that's roughly 600 megapixels, after cropping quite a bit this image ended up being 260 megapixels, I decided to go with a 1:2 crop ratio. Stitched in Autopano Giga after exporting developed tiff from Lightroom, I brightened up the foreground a little in PS afterwards. Canon 6D, 50mm Sigma Art f1.8, 10 seconds, ISO-6400 64 shots, 4 x 16 http://ift.tt/2pSTX4V http://ift.tt/1Ps0SrQ ---- http://ift.tt/2DdHayB

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Ross Schram von Haupt at Mt Rainier — REPOST: @rosssvhphoto from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @tracyleephotos — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Ross about this image: --- PANO/TRACKED/BLEND http://ift.tt/2k5AMBE http://ift.tt/2w4WIAS While the New Year marks a lot of things, for me it mostly just means we’re that much closer to milky way season again! Here is an unreleased shot from the most amazing night under the stars inside Mt Rainier National Park. I’ve been holding on to post it while we’re all missing those warm(ish) nights under the stars! I shot the milky way quite a bit in 2017, but this night was extra special. Airglow and light pollution can often take away or sometimes even ruin a night shot as it will overpower the stars. Not this night! I can’t begin to explain how amazed I was when I looked on my camera LCD screen after a test shot to see beams of light seemingly shooting out of Rainier. As the milky way aligned vertically with the peak, everything was pretty much perfect. I am going to have a hard time ever getting a better night shot of Rainier. Shot Info: Nikon D610 w Samyang 24 f/1.4 Foreground: ISO2000, 24mm, f/2.8 180s (stacked to reduce noise) Stars: ISO1000, 24mm, f/4, 183s (tracked, pano) --- http://ift.tt/2CLOBw2

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Ivan Farca in Borrego Springs — REPOST: @ivan_farca from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @matthewsavillephoto — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Ivan about this image: --- SINGLE SHOT http://ift.tt/2rDbfEU http://ift.tt/2scAwCV Back in 2013 when i was just learning how to use a camera, i was doing my research on how to do astrophotography and shoot some milky way shots. I came across this amazing photographer called Michael Shainblum and he helped me out a bunch on how to go about doing these kins of shots. I did my research on locations and found that in the Anza Borrego desert there is a place with many many sculptures of Ricardo Braceda which is a metal sculptor. And one of the ones i loved since i did my research was the T-Rex fighting and decided to go and shoot these bad boys. Sure enough i did the shot and ended up with this one as my 2nd try at shooting the milky way. EXIF Rokinon 14mm 30” F/2.8 ISO 3200. --- http://ift.tt/2DcqGGR

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Burim Muqa at Lake Stelli in Zermatt — REPOST: @bmuqa from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @tracyleephotos — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Burim about this image: --- Matterhorn at night STACKED http://ift.tt/2z2Bapa instagram.com/bmuqa http://ift.tt/2u0a68P Website & Tumblr : muqa.ch I finally could go to camp at the lake Stelli in Zermatt in august this year. It was a beautiful day with amazing sunset, sunrise and clear sky in the night. I really like camping in such places and I hope I can do this during this year to. This image is stacked from a series of 10 images to reduce the noise, taken with the same settings and from the same place, stacked with photoshop, edited separately for the sky and the landscape. Feedback is welcome! EXIF: 10 x 14mm, ISO 12800, f/2.8, 20 sec --- http://ift.tt/2DbzPjh

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Keith Burke at Dead Horse Point ---- REPOST: @keith_burke_photography from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @tracyleephotos — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Keith about this image: --- SINGLE SOCIAL: http://ift.tt/2mEl2Yp http://ift.tt/2mhHzrc Nikon D750 | Nikon 14-24 Single Image @ 14mm | ISO 1600 | 25 Seconds | f/2.8 Taking advantage of some much needed down time as well as some rainy weather to go through some of my captures that I didn't process earlier last year. This picture was taken on my first trip to Moab last season in early April. On this night, I photographed the night sky at Dead Horse Point State Park literally until the sun came up. This image was my last image of the night as the sun had begun to make itself visible on the horizon. The Milky Way can be seen fading away into the pre-dawn sky. The light from the soon to rise sun helped illuminate the canyons for my foreground. This image was processed using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. As always, thank you for having a look. Hope you enjoy viewing the pic as much as I did capturing it. --- http://ift.tt/2Dc5aCt

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Tom Roche at Dry Tortugas National Park — REPOST: @offshoretom from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @matthewsavillephoto — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Tom about this image: --- COMPOSITE http://ift.tt/2CCcFkJ Taken on a 3-day camping trip to Dry Tortugas National Park which is roughly 70 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida. Obviously quite remote and offers some excellent dark skies. This is a corner of Fort Jefferson that resides on the largest island of the park. One of my absolute favorite places to go in Florida, especially for a camping trip. Great snorkeling and bird watching are also available here along with the feeling of being in your own tropical island. If you ever get a chance, go! Sky: 50mm f2.8 60sec (tracked) ISO1600 Foreground: 14mm f2.8 30sec ISO3200 --- http://ift.tt/2D5RaK8

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#COMPOSITEWEEK --- Mike Rice at Bishops Castle — REPOST: @michaelsrice_photography from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @tracyleephotos — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Mike about this image: --- Social: http://ift.tt/2suH7fW http://ift.tt/2tec0lC I don't do Milky Way Composites often. In fact, I think this might be only the second one I've ever done. Back in February of 2017 I went on a week long road trip that carried us through Rye Colorado, the site of Bishops Castle (pictured here). We stuck around for some night sky images but the core of the Milky Way was (of course) on vacation in the southern hemisphere. Still I kept trying to imagine that spot with the core rising above it and the light spots of snow on the ground. I used a image from Big Bend for the Milky Way. Aside from being 'out of season' this also presents the entire thing in a mirrored perspective. Foreground Nikon D800, Sigma 24mm. f/2 20 seconds ISO 2000 Sky: Big Bend National Park Nikon D800, ISO 4000 f1.2, 20seconds on 24mm Sigma --- http://ift.tt/2qzbIbr

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#COMPOSITEWEEK --- Claudia Sölter at Mönchhofkapelle. — REPOST: Claudia Sölter from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @matthewsavillephoto — MWC Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Claudia about this image: --- Panorama | Stack | Composite I found this little chapel once on a tour with my bycicle in a quite suprising area, because there it stands in a place with a lot of cargo-buildings around (and noise and light ...). And for my current hobby is to make some bicycle-tours by night (don’t ask me why), I wantetd to visit this idyll spontaneously again and at night. What do you think? Was ist worth while? One distance is 20km long (about 12,5 mi). I already like the single shot but it was a joy to add the milkyway and the rays of light to add more dynamics to the picture. SOCIAL: IG: N/A http://ift.tt/2DVVc73 http://ift.tt/2EGWMef Sky: CANON EOS 500D • CANON-Kit-Lens 18-55mm f/5,0 • 300“ (20 x 15“, stacked) • ISO 1600 • panorama • 4 x landscape format • 24mm • August 2017 Bottom: Sony Alpha 700 • f/10 • ISO 500 • detail of a panorama • 7 x upright format • 28mm • December 2017 --- http://ift.tt/2qBYYkh

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Matt Smith at Sam Nail Ranch --- REPOST: @hyp3r.n0va from http://ift.tt/1WIhwba chosen by @ --- Milky Way Chasers Admin: @tracyleephotos --- #milkywaychasers to be featured or post on http://ift.tt/1WIhwba. Tag a friend who might enjoy this Milky Way image and journey! --- From Matt about this image: --- COMPOSITE --- http://ift.tt/2Eiu0jo Fb.com/mattsmith1985 --- Going out to Big Bend this past summer was an awe-inspiring experience which I hope to revisit again this year, just more prepared. There were many shots to get but the time crunch and sheer scale of the park limited staying in one spot too long with fear of missing out. Also, the weather didn't get the memo that we were coming and sucked really bad. --- This was only supposed to be a 2 image composite, but I threw in the small path from another spot in the park to even out the foreground. The main foreground was one of the first images I took with Mike Rice when we first got in the park in the afternoon. I had only really seen mountains one other time in my life and not from very close. It was just a quick shot with an uninteresting sky, but it was still mountains, and you don't see those in south Texas. ---- The path was from a very small trail on the western side of the park called the Sam Nail Ranch trail. There were some cool features, but again, for the time of day, nothing of note. But one of the shots had a path that trailed off and when added to the open foreground, I thought provided balance to the image as well as a focal point for the foreground. The sky is the same used in a regular panorama that I have already posted using the Sigma 50mm. The frame was then cropped to create a focal point all across the image. --- Ground Canon 6D / Sigma 50mm @ f/8 / 1/160" / ISO100 Path Canon 6D / Rokinon 24mm @ f/11 / 1/80" / ISO100 SKY 20 frame panorama Canon 6D / Sigma 50mm @ f1.4 / 10" / ISO 5000 --- Cropped to fit together in Photoshop/ACR --- http://ift.tt/2FahSlK