Milky Way shoot failure (success!)

Rocco, those are absolutely spectacular photos!! Really, really awesome[:D][Y]

Thanks for sharing the additional information. That is surprising about the lack of noise in the original image. I was guessing that there would have been much higher levels of noise with the 7D at ISO 640 and 30/sec also with all that black.

Could just be the image size on here. Zoomed in, and in print I

I love pictures that combine the night sky with land features. This one in particular is really cool, Rocco.