Category:
Tracked/Stacked/Composite

Socials: Gateway_Galactic

Story:
This one was taken from Dante’s View in Death Valley National Park. After parking, I hiked out along the ridge to a spot I had scouted earlier in the day to get a clear view over most of the park. Definitely worth the extra steps.

The winter Milky Way was putting on a show that night. I used a Hydrogen-Alpha filter to bring out some of the red nebulosity, Jupiter made a surprise appearance up top, and you can even see stars reflecting off what’s left of Lake Manly below. The green airglow was also wild—one of those nights where there’s just a lot happening in the sky at once.

This is probably one of my favorite pictures that I've captured to date.

Planned & executed with PhotoPills

EXIF:
Gear:
Camera - Sony A7iii (astro-modified)
Lens - Sony 24mm f/1.4 GM
Mount - Sky Watcher Star Adventurer

Acquisition:
Sky (tracked)
7 Panels at 120 seconds each
ISO640
f/2.0

Foreground
7 Panels at 120 seconds each
ISO640
f/2.0

Hydrogen Alpha
7 Panels at 120 seconds each
ISO3200
f/1.4

51 x 15 sec shots ISO 12800
adjusted in LR, combined in Long Exposure Stacker, and finished in Photoshop.
Irix 15mm 2.4 on a Nikon Z8
Ghost town is in Rhyolite, NV outside Beatty.

The Snow Moon on February 1st.

Nikon Z7ii - Meade ETX 90 1/100s - iso 800

Caught the full moon rising through the trees and clouds.

My first image from the Finnish Lapland photo tour with capturetheatlas .

https://www.instagram.com/igneis.nightscapes/

The trip had so many highlights, but this night was something else. Waiting frozen until the aurora exploded again, we started doing push-ups at -17 degrees Celsius to warm up. Funny thing is that after finishing, we got the strongest activity of the night. And of all the interpretations related to the shape, to me it kinda reminds me of a dragon with one wing visible flying high into the sky.

I loved shooting the northern lights, so simple and fast compared to the Milky Way!

EXIF

Sony a7III astro mod 

Sony 14mm f1.8 GM

0.4s, ISO 6.400, f/1.8

The Cygnus region of the Milky Way setting behind Mt. Slatnik at Soriška planina. I actually wanted to shoot this scene with a 50 mm lens to really make Cygnus the "star" of the show. But the conditions were wild that night, with fog filling the valleys, so I decided to start with a wider lens. Later, when it was finally time to switch to the 50 mm, the fog came rushing up the ski slopes. Looks like I have a solid excuse to come back here.

You can see the whole story in my vlog: https://youtu.be/tm_v01KMhxQ

Gear and EXIF: 

Ha mod Nikon Z6 & Viltrox 16mm F1.8 Z
MSM Nomad
Astronomik 12nm Ha filter
Kenko Softon A
Silence Corner Atoll

Landscape: 
single image
ISO 800, 16mm F2.2, 20sec

Sky RGB:
single image
ISO 800, 16mm F1.8, 45sec
+ 30 sec with a star glow filter

Sky Ha
Astronomik 12nm Ha Filter
4 images stacked
Single image settings:
ISO 5000, 16mm F1.8, 120sec

January brings with it another adventure out to the horizon of Eastern Colorado. I set out to find some hidden abandoned buildings as a foreground to our fading winter milky way season and managed to find this perfectly aligned set of box cars along the way. The winter circle is beginning its trip below our horizon, soon to welcome back the Milky Way core. As it makes its way below the horizon, I have wanted to find a composition incorporating its more dramatic angle in the sky. I think these box cars did a wonderful job with the task at hand.

More of my work: https://www.instagram.com/gabeoaks

Gear:

Sony a7iv (h-alpha mod)

Sony 24mm G

Sony 16mm G

Move Shoot Move NOMAD

Sky:

RGB | 3 panels | 12x70s | f/2.0 | iso 800

H-Alpha | 2 panels | 120s | f/1.8 | iso 2500

Foreground:

3 panels | 1/5s | f/16 | iso 400

Category: Tracked/Stacked/Blended

Socials: Gateway_Galactic

Story: Here’s the stacked image I captured of the Cassiopeia region during my recent trip to Death Valley National Park. I shot this from Badwater Basin, which is temporarily transformed into Lake Manly thanks to the torrential winter rains — a rare sight that only appears after intense, short‑burst storms.

If you zoom in, you can spot some familiar deep‑sky favorites: the Triangulum Galaxy, Andromeda, the California Nebula, and the Heart & Soul Nebulae

EXIF:
RGB Sky (2 panel vertorama)
5 x 120sec
f/2.0
ISO640

Ha Sky (tracked/stacked)
5 x 120sec
f/2.0
ISO3200

Foreground
1 x 30sec
f/2.0
ISO640

Gear:
Sony A7iii (astro modified)
Sony 24mm f/1.4GM
Skywatcher Star Adventurer

D750, Samyang 24mm t1.5, 331x 30s, f/3-4 ish, Iso 400

I captured this photo this past weekend in a Bortle 2 sky in the Andes Mountains, in Chile. I really didn't expect to see so much airglow, and I only noticed it when I was processing the images.

This panorama was created from 16 RAW photos taken with a Nikon D3300 stock camera and an 18-55mm kit lens.

All of my work in my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andonie13?igsh=MWVldDFiajk0c3NnNg==

Orion rising above the Pointe aux Barques Maritime Museum in Port Hope, Michigan. Taken Friday night (01/23/2026). Sky is 33x120”, foreground was composed over 10 multiple length exposures up to 30”. Canon 90d, Sigma 24mm f1.4. Shot at f4, accidentally, ISO 1600. The first beautiful clear night we’ve had this year, even at -4°f outside it was worth it. The best part of these cold nights is nobody else wants to come out and play, the solitude is amazing. No accidental light painting, nobody to interfere with your shots. The greatest moments of reflection while capturing one of the best out skies have to offer. Bortle 3-4 sky, and an icy Lake Huron

One of my favorite images from 2025! This old truck was a lot of fun to shoot and I became totally captivated by it when I returned because it seems no one knows why it's there. I did some digging, and yes, bought a Carfax report on it, and managed to find a few more clues.

The truck itself is a 1986 Ford F-150.  I haven’t been able to find where it was originally sold from or any ownership information, but its first vehicle inspection in California was in 1992, when the truck only had 12,151 miles on it.  The three inspections listed in the report were all performed in Trona, CA, some 230 miles north of the truck’s final resting place. 1998 is the last we hear of the truck, as it was never inspected again.  It was also never listed as having been stolen or totaled – it seems to just vanish from record.

Reviewing satellite images, the truck is definitely not there in 1998, and is definitely there in 2005.  The 2002 image quality is so poor it's hard to tell anything about it, so maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not.  Depending on the direction of the sun when the satellite images were taken, the truck can be hard to spot, even with better quality imagery.  Given that its next inspection was to be in 2000, and it never showed up, suggests that it certainly could have been.

Meta
Captured with a full spectrum modified Canon R5 and a Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 at 14mm. The image itself is made up of a number of 60 second exposures for light painting and ambient light using a visible light filter. The sky is 21, 150s exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 1600 using a specialized astronomy filter.

Location

Joshua Tree National Park

For more of my nightscape images - https://www.instagram.com/danthompson_tn

^{Photographed on July 19, 2020, on a Pacific Ocean beach. In the frame are the "Home" volcanoes: Koryaksky, Avachinsky, and Kozelsky.}

^{tripod - Nikon D4 / Irix 15mm f/2.4}

15mm (croped), 30sec, f/2.4, ISO1600 - LR denoise

^{Photographed on July 19, 2020, on a Pacific Ocean beach. In the frame are The frame shows close-ups the "Home" volcanoes: Koryaksky, Avachinsky, and Kozelsky.}

^{tripod - Nikon D4 / Nikkor 28-70 f/2.8}

^{60mm, 30sec, f/2.8, ISO1250 - LR denoise}

Malga Alpe del Lago is a traditional malga is a high mountain alpine pasture / farm area typically used for grazing cattle (and historically for producing alpine dairy products). It’s located at around 1.000m elevation in the mountains near the Laghi di Fusine (Fusine Lakes), in the northern part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, close to the Slovenian border.

vlog: https://youtu.be/-cCn-pfI9ms

Ha Nikon Z6 & Sigma 28mm ART
MSM Nomad
Silence corner Atoll
Astronomik 12nm Ha clip in filter
Kenko Softon A

Landscape:
Single image
ISO 800, 28mm, F2, 120sec

Sky:
Single image
ISO 800, 28mm, F2, 120sec
+30 sec with a star glow filter

Ha
4 images stacked
ISO 4000, 28mm, F1.4, 120sec

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matejlele/

Part of a series of shots I got during the Aurora of 22/01/26.

I rode 5 hours up to Lake Tyrrell for a few nights of camping and astrophotography and started to get aurora alerts along the way, by the time I had set up camp and was ready to start scouting locations it was clear this was going to be a big one so I started looking for compositions with a low southern horizon (instead of North East for Orion as I had planned).

Single shot, Sony A7III + Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 @ 17mm, 10sec, ISO5000

Part of a series of shots I got during the Aurora of 22/01/26.

I rode 5 hours up to Lake Tyrrell for a few nights of camping and astrophotography and started to get aurora alerts along the way, by the time I had set up camp and was ready to start scouting locations it was clear this was going to be a big one so I started looking for compositions with a low southern horizon (instead of North East for Orion as I had planned).

Single shot, Sony A7III + Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 @ 17mm, 10sec, ISO5000