Center Milky Way Galaxy Mountains
Going to visit the nearby Monongahela national forest is paradise for our family. The light pollution is very low here and offers some of the best night sky viewing on the entire east coast.
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy from the mountains of West Virginia around 12:30 am on the 4th of July.
My son and I were really excited to see this image. Our camera was able to see more stars than our eyes.
Taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and a Sigma 28mm fixed at f/1.8 and 30 seconds exposure.
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Astrophotography from the Mountains and Forests.
www.ForestWander.com/the-sky
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Unstrung Photo, The Guy With The Hat, Lynda Giddens, WVMountainSteel, and 45 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Tishfish (35 months ago | reply)
Fantastic sky shots ! ! !
` Samuel ´ (34 months ago | reply)
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7Krys (34 months ago | reply)
Nice done !
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Beautiful image.
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Salvo Kalat (34 months ago | reply)
This brilliant photo is like a shooting star,
totally inspiring!
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Juan Felipe Gómez T (34 months ago | reply)
Excellent,congratulations
Lynda Giddens (34 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Friday Finds: Sky Shot Challenge, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Lynda Giddens (34 months ago | reply)
This is gorgeous! Amazing capture.
Rob (M) Andrews (34 months ago | reply)
Magnificent capture, very impressive indeed.
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Mirthe Duindam (34 months ago | reply)
Oh wow, so wonderful to see!! Great!!
Michael Hensley (34 months ago | reply)
Lovely shot. Thank you so much for sharing it.
MichaelsPics (34 months ago | reply)
What an amazing shot! I've only seen the Milky Way nearly as clear from the remote Davis Mountains in TX.
mamamac2010 (33 months ago | reply)
Beautiful and amazing!
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Ianmoran1970 (33 months ago | reply)
Ace sky..
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Stunningly Beautiful Composition..
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Jón Heiðar (33 months ago | reply)
This is amazing!
Flapper20's (32 months ago | reply)
Omg, perfect!
kris verdugo (32 months ago | reply)
This is breathtaking!
mollienme (32 months ago | reply)
WOW, beautiful
gogo54 (32 months ago | reply)
Coolest photo ever!!!!!!!
leversandpulleys (31 months ago | reply)
That is just hang on the wall fantastic! Excellent exposure.
Photos By Zoe (30 months ago | reply)
oh my word - this is utterly amazing - fantastic photo - instant fav!
cclontz (30 months ago | reply)
Magnificent
photokemi (28 months ago | reply)
ive never been able to get the milky way like this on my photos,
whats the secret to this?
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Pan.101 (13 months ago | reply)
very beautiful.
Tatarine (5 months ago | reply)
Beautiful! I've watermarked this picture with your name and "creative commons" and scheduled it to be shared (along with a link to your site) on 18 December 2012 at: www.facebook.com/OpticsReviewercom
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Thank you very much for making this beautiful photo available under the Creative Commons license! We have used it on our news story 'Starry-eyed dung beetles' at the Young People's Trust for the Environment. To view this please click here -
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Cookie Monster ;) (5 weeks ago | reply)
Just so you know, a man by the nameof John Sides has stolen this photograph and claimed it to be his own. He even placed his logo on the bottom of the picture. I just thought that you had the right to know about the situation because photo theft is not okay at all.
Here is a link to the proof: www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?fbid=29 771079702271...
Maybe you can do something more about it because when others, even me, have called him out to everybody, he deletes the post and bans the person from ever joining again, yet still claims the work as his own.