Desolation Milkyway
The Milkyway, as seen from Desolation Wilderness. This was shot from camp on my backpacking trip earlier this month. Every star that you see is actually in the Milkyway but we commonly refer to the streak across the sky as the Milkyway. The Milkyway is our Galaxy, which is shaped similar to Saturn and it's rings. Consider the milky streak of stars across our sky to be the rings as seen from within itself. Regardless, when you get it this dark out you can't help but marvel at it.
Details:
Canon 5D Mark II
16-35L 2.8
tri pod
66 second exposure at 2.8 and ISO 2000
If you look at the stars on the outer edge of the image you can see that 66 seconds produced enough movement to show some blur.
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