Awesome capture!


Is that rain coming down and did lightning strikes light up the bright portion of the image? Is that the picture as shot with noise reduction software? Can you post the original image as it came out of the camera so that I/we can see what you were working from? Single exposure I'm assuming by what you wrote where I usually have to do a much longer exposure to get the stars to show up like that. I'm not in the mountains but I consider most of Arkansas where I'm stuck to be the boonies. I am not super experienced at photographing night time skies so I'm always looking to learn more. Not real sure on the photo stacking concept yet.