Thank you, Darren!

Thank you, Christoph!

Stellarview

Thanks for posting my photo, however, the added colour saturation does not do it justice.

I am an astrophotographer and amateur astronomer who likes to do public outreach

'yes'

Thank you! With a 14mm lens, if I stay around 20 seconds, the stars will not trail. In very dark skies, I can pick up a lot of detail in 20 seconds and with a lens that is fast, f/1.8.

Thank you so much, James!

yes, dark skies makes all the difference, including the moon being out of the way. This place was in Bortle 2, almost as good as it gets. There were a few clouds around. I used a 14mm lens wide open at f/1.8 and 20 second exposures for each pano frame.

Wow, thank you so much! It was beautiful solitude except for a little muskrat occasionally making ripples 😍.

No, that would saturate the whole image. I took 30 second shots consecutively for four hours. Then stacked them in a software called Starstax

Thank you, I stitched the 9 frames together in Lightroom, then brougth up shadows and toned down highlights and made sure to not crush/clip either end of the histogram. Slight S curve in contrast. Usual processing techniques.

It looked bright and crisp that photo shoot. But we can’t see colour at night, so does not look like this because of the colour. But the Milky Way should be obvious in dark skies but also depends on the time of year.