A few Milky Way pics.

[BillM]

Northern Ontario is great for zero light pollution and clear skies. Took advantage of that last week on our fishing trip to setup the tripod and play around a bit. These are straight out of the camera. Still have some cleaning up to do, but I've got a pretty good base to start with.

 

Milky Way from the shores of Lake Nipigon by billmarz, on Flickr

Look close.. satellites! by billmarz, on Flickr

Milky Way #2 by billmarz, on Flickr

Edited August 10, 2013 by BillM

[shane]

Very cool.

[ctranter]

These are great shots bill! My fav is the first one -- mind posting the exif data for it?

[BillM]

ISO6400, 30s, f3.5 Canon 60D + EF-S 10-22mm. Colour temp was 3200k if I'm not mistaken.

Edited August 10, 2013 by BillM

[Rich Clemens]

Great shots Bill.

[Joey]

Great shots Bill. I set my camera up last night for the meteor shower, got it all ready, took couple test shots, then waited until after midnight as they said that was the best time, opened the back door and it was raining I then went to bed!!!

 

 

I'll try again. You going to try for some meteors?

[BillM]

Joey, I didn't know there was a meteor shower! I'll definitely be out! Thanks for the head up

[misfish]

Thats very cool Bill.

[Ralph Field]

Very cool.

x2

[danc]

Those are awesome Bill. I did a little star gazing while I was out there too, but didn't pull out the camera.

[BillM]

Here's an edit I spent some time on today.

[Joey]

Almost looks like there is a meteor in that one!!!

 

Great edit!!

[BillM]

I'm guessing it's a satellite. Really easy to spot them in the clear skies up north!

[Joey]

Lets go with meteor, sounds more exciting

[fishindevil]

amazing bill !!!!! ...very cool pics man

[MJL]

Fantastic photos Bill...Definitely getting the urge to head away from the city to get some shots like those

[Twocoda]

Amazing shots Bill....love the edit too...would make an awesome blow up...clouds moved in up here but looking at the satelite it might clear out for the meteor shower tonight ...fingers crossed...

[spincast]

awesome shots. Wish I had stayed out longer when I was up there. Out of curiosity, roughly what time was it wen you shot those?

[BillM]

I think those shots were taken around 12:30am or so...

[Whopper]

I tried to capture the same shot only I was further east. My shot didn't turn out so good.

Friday and Saturday's night sky was brilliant.

 

Nice shots thank for sharing!

[BillM]

I think I had two good nights to shoot, the rest were very overcast.

[ROOK]

for those who really didn't know there were ANNUAL meteors in early august ...............

http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors

 

NOW get out and start taking some pics !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Rook

[adempsey]

Nice photos! I am always amazed at what people can accomplish with a camera these days. Some of the images people are taking with telescopes and CCD imagers are simply astounding.

[davierooney]

Great pics there Bill, excellent.

[Nigel62]

Nice shots.