Yeah highest ISO your camera can handle, longest shutter speed (anything over 30 seconds though you start to get star trails), low aperture: http://improvephotography.com/5955/h...the-milky-way/

You can get really fancy and get a tracking tripod rig that tracks the earth's movement: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...cking%20tripod

If you really want to do some Milky Way shots let me know. There's way more to it but it's not that hard.

Nice :thumb:

I showed this to some peeps who work for me (one just got back from a vacation in yellow stone), and they'd like to us this as their background. Is that OK?

Holy crap, that's beautiful.

Is that one shot, or did you layer multiple exposures?

Thanks for the tips. That link certainly helps. I guess I need to get out there and practice now.

Absolutely no issue at all tell them to enjoy :thumb:

The Grand Canyon image is a 5x5 matrix or 25 shots stitched together. They arent layed but overlapped on the edges. I have a bunch I'm putting up on my facebook page (Dave Lane Astrophotography) there are some pretty nice shots in there.

If you want to see a cool 1/3rd sized actual image (warning even as a jpeg its 29 mb) try clicking this link, then give me a star count :eek:

http://re-prop.com/dave/joshrock.jpg

Ur awesome man...

Holy mother of God that is ****ing awesome! How do I acquire on of these? Do you sell them?

Haven't posted in this thread in a while. Here's just a few newish ones.

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