Milky Way cascading over Bough Beech Reservoir

[RichardL]

Hi All,

It was great to meet a few more of you at yesterday's meet up!

Here's  an image I took 15th July 2018 of the Milky Way cascading over Bough Beech Reservoir. A great location, and probably one of the darkest I've found in the local area!

Photographed using a Sony a6300 camera and 12mm f/2 Samyang lens. A stack of 10 images was used for the sky, taken at f/2.8, ISO3200 and exposed for 25 seconds, combined with a single image of the same for the foreground.

• PhotoPills used for celestial alignment
• Lightroom - used for initial post processing
• Photoshop - for stacking, layering and final adjustments
• Photoshop plugins & actions: Astronomy Tools v1.6, AstroFlat Pro and Photographing Space

Milky Way - Bough Beech Reservior by Richard Leighton, on Flickr

You can also see before and after (processing) in my highlights on my instagram page, user "galacticescapes"

Wishing you Clear Skies,
Richard 

[Carole]

 Nice to meet you too.

Fantastic image and great composition and processing.

Carole

[Roy]

Super image Richard, especially as it was taken somewhere so local.

Roy

[MarkS]

A really beautiful image.  You've done an excellent job processing this.

The reflections in the water really add something to the composition and the resulting image really deserves to be hung on the wall.

Mark

[Fay]

beautiful

[The Thing]

Really quite amazing for the south east. Very nice Richard.