willmaxwell

Thank you Clayton. Its true, light pollution has really degraded the night sky and sadly rather needlessly.

Thank you Philip. It was taken on a winter morning during the golden hour, so yes, I lucked out on the light...

Thank you for the nice feedback. Yes, to capture the exposure needed you would need some sort of tracking mount. The mount is probably more important than the camera/optics. A great resource for information and a place to post questions would be cloudynights.com. In general its a bit more involved than terrestrial photography although many of the same principles apply.

Thank you for the nice feedback. .If you meant for this picture, its exposure is about 5 hours total. If you mean how long have I been doing astrophotography, about 6 years.

Thank you Giangiorgio.