Galactic photos!

So I've recently been trying my hand at a spot of night time photography. There's so much to learn, and so much still to improve for future experiments, but it's really very rewarding!

The following photos were taken using a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens, with a 25 second shutter speed, ISO at 800 and aperture around f/3.5

The 'star trail' below was created by shooting a series of photos with a one minute interval on an intervalometer and compositing these later in Photoshop using a 'lighten' blending mode.

Why not have a go yourselves?