Hello,

A happy accident indeed! Light pollution is a problem everywhere around here. With the current curfew you just can't go anywhere, especially at night. Last week I was out of town in a local small hotel in the south east coast of Puerto Rico. I only took my K-01 with the DA 35 f2.4 and a wimpy $15 tripod just in case. Nothing else. My room was literally less than 100 feet from the sea. When I looked up at night, WOW! What a beautiful night sky! So I took a few long exposures. Nothing spectacular by this forum's standards, but I'm really happy. Wish I had a wider lens. Found 15s to be a sweet spot before star trails became an issue.
This is pretty much out of camera. I don't even know how to process it. Tried a few things but all went the wrong way. Gotta read more about this topic.
The bright star is Jupiter.



Thanks,

[Aaron28]

nice! take a bunch and make a pano!

[PJ1]

Yes, 15 seconds is a bit too quick to get what you want. What I have found is that you can take a much longer exposure, put the image into a program like Paint and then compress it along the axis of the star trails. It is a crude way of getting the image but it is kind of fun seeing it take shape.

[gifthorse]

A good first try. There are a number of videos on Youtube just search for keywords post processing Milky Way that will help.