Milky Way over Southsea Castle by Langstone Joe Had a most enjoyable couple of hours last night shoo

Milky Way over Southsea Castle by Langstone Joe Had a most enjoyable couple of hours last night shooting the Milky Way with my friend Alan Markham. He’d wanted to have a bash at astro, and while thats maybe a case of the blind leading the blind, having spent the Lockdown months shooting astro from my deck at home, I have at least found the methods to get some sort of results, it also appealed to me to shoot a foreground other than the neighbour’s garden fence! But what a tough subject. Gazillion light pollution from Portsmouth, brightly light seafront and castle, and a very dim sky because of all this. You need a very bright exposure for the Milky Way but that blows the foreground. So I’d planned to do what the real astro toggers seem to do, one exposure for the sky and one for the foreground, and then blend them together in post, but I found it difficult to get them to marry together in any usable way, and so went “old school” and used a single frame capture. Just to the right of the lighthouse the bright “star” is Jupiter and to its left almost touching the lighthouse and much dimmer is Saturn. At the extreme bottom right of the frame the lights from Ryde on the Isle of Wight are just peeking into the image. Single frame capture. 18mm - ISO 1600 - F2 - 15 Seconds https://flic.kr/p/2jfbJrh -- source link

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