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Milky way over Enschede

It couldn’t have been longer than 5 minutes, but I got my best 2 shots of the Milky Way so far. With again just a camera and a tripod, focussing went quite smoothly and locating the Milky Way has become a fairly straightforward job by now. With ISO at 6400 (as sensitive as my camera gets) and exposure time at 20 seconds (maximum without visible trailing at 18mm), I barely had to do any post processing to get proper images.

Milky Way arm high in the enschede sky

Milky Way arm high in the Enschede sky with Vega in the top right. The open cluster M39 I imaged recently, is just left of star Deneb, which is the bright star a little to the lower left of the center of the image.

Milky Way reaching out of the Enschede skyglow

Milky Way reaching out of the Enschede skyglow with Altair as the brightest star in the center of this photo

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Photos from ‘Amsterdamse Bos’ and some garden photos

While in the Netherlands we generally don’t consider our forests very exciting (it lacks bears, tigers, trees the size of skyscrapers … oh and some pinguins would be cool!), when you look a bit harder and pay attention to the smaller stuff, there is plenty of cool things to see.