Wednesday, 1 October 2025

The Milky Way

In late September 2025 I drove my camper van to Roch in western Pembrokeshire. There was no moonlight and very little light pollution. The sky conditions were very clear with stars visible down to about magnitude 6.7.

I was using a Canon EOS 50D DSLR camera mounted on a Ioptron SkyTracker Pro mount. The camera was set on ISO 3200 with 30 second sub frames and matching 30 second dark frames to reduce the effect of noise in the final images.




The following images are a composition of four 30 second exposures averaged together.