No website etc but very kind of you to say! The bluesky link is fine by me. Thank you for asking, too. Lots of people tend to just take without crediting or notifying. Looking forward to the mix!

Hi - yes I did. Please do feel free to use it. I only post for the love of it so always happy to have images shared

A very early morning spent at the beautiful #glanusk estate, watching the milkyway rising over their iconic bridge tower

#milkyway
#astrophotography
#nightscape

Thank you! Now we are into those big numbers! 😂

Thank you! The sky was taken from a spot nearby where the mountain wasn't in frame for easier editing. It was made up of 47x 90-second tracked shots. Stacked and processed in Siril and lightroom. The foreground is a single, light painted long exposure! Blended back together in PS and edited in LR

This got me 8 likes on IG 😂
Can it be seen by a few more people here?

#astrophotography #landscapeastrophotography #nightscape #orion #wales #rookienumbers

Enjoying the dark skies and ruins of Llanthony Priory in South Wales. There's a real sense of amazement wonder in a place like this - perfect for #astrophotography

I've neglected my blue sky account again! Making up for it with a #milkyway shot from my hotel balcony last month in #madeira
This took some processing work to cut through the Funchal light pollution!

Some more from last night's vivid #noctilucentcloud display. This is a 12-panel pano, so be sure to open the image up for the whole thing. Also featuring #mars and the #moon

According to my bio I'm usually found cursing at the clouds. Last night was a bit different though...

#noctilucentclouds #wales #nightscape

Interested to see from other #astrophotography peeps what the best dark sky you've ever been to looks like in an unprocessed, straight out of the camera image? I took a photo from the south coast of Madeira last year and the #milkyway was so bright that I thought it was cloud at first!

70 minutes well spent on a crystal clear night this week. Whipped out the 85mm f/1.8 lens and got tracking a widefield of Pleiades. Shocked at how much dust showed up in the final image! 🤩

#astrophotography
#pleiades
#m45

That's an ideal lens! If you stop the lens down to F/2.8 and focus in on the constellation of Orion (the whole thing will fit easily in frame at 35mm) then you can comfortably take 6-8 second exposures without a tracker. Use your ISO to control the brightness and you have a working astro rig!

I forgot the tracker! That's an extra expense but mine was around £250

Not at all! It can get expensive, but this image was taken on a budget, 9 year old camera (around £400), a tripod (mine was around £120) a wide angle lens (bought used for (£75) and a remote shutter trigger (about £10). If you already have a DSLR then you are halfway there!

Thank you!

10-panel panorama of the milkyway arching over the #bannaubrycheiniog
All 30-second untracked single shots, stitched and processed in lightroom only. That airglow was wild! Such a dark sky lets the camera pick up some much faint colour
#nightscape #astrophotography #milkyway

When you have clear skies but forgot to charge your star tracker - STAR TRAILS TIME!

#startrails #nightphotography #nightscape

Once you get on to using a tracking mount you can do longer exposures with bigger lenses and your aperture doesn't matter quite as critically.
For a resource, I can't recommend highly enough the book "Photographing the night sky" by the late, great Alyn Wallace.

Thanks Andrew!
For this image I was using a 24mm f/2.8 lens. For this kind of image you want something wide (14-50mm) and fast f/2.8 or lower. That will allow you to take in a large part of the sky and capture light quickly without star trails showing up.

Thank you, Steve! 😁

Thank you!

Those dark skies make so much difference!

Thanks so much!

Thank you 😊

Thank you!

Certainly - it's a canon EOS1300D
unmodified and about as budget as you can get! That little camera is really doing some heavy lifting now!

Thank you!

Thank you 😁

Yes that really surprised me too!