Some pics I took of the night sky this week.

[nitrox28]

Took these from my backyard over the past few nights. Been playing around with long exposures. Kind of cool how those planes flew right through the area I was shooting!

15 minute star trail. The sky is pink because of the light pollution in my neighborhood.



20 minute star trail. 3 freaking planes flew through my shot. The sky is darker because I changed my camera settings.



I was shooting the little dipper and a jet decided to fly by. You can see the dipper on the left.



Here are a couple pretty good dipper shots.




Moon and Venus. I think.



Sunset.

[grouch0jr]

relaxing

[TempleU_WS6]

Awesome!

[whoa guy]

nice dude.. what type of camera and what settings did u use for the darker shots?

[nitrox28]

nice dude.. what type of camera and what settings did u use for the darker shots?

XSi body and I switched between the 18-55mm kit lens and my 50mm 1.8 prime. As for the darker shots, I changed my aperture from something like 10 to 18. I don't remember exactly what it was. Thanks btw. I'm now on a mission from God to capture a near perfect star trail with black sky!!

[ArcticZ06]

i need to mess with my camera settings and get some northern lights shots

[third_shift|studios]

i got some new camera gear from santa...hoping to get more into figure studies and product lighting with it.

[ss~zoso~ss]

those are some great pictures, i like how you can actually see the whole moon even though only part of it is reflecting light from the sun

[Nhra Firebird]

The pic with the plane looks awesome.

[donman]

nice pic's I would love to see the Northern light pics...Don

[The Project]

Very nice pics