Cleeve hill shoot

[Jamie Schofield]

So I set out the other night and climbed cleeve hill in Cheltenham to do my first 'astro shoot'... I don't think it was the worst attempt made but something doesn't seem right about them! Any idea how I can improve, as astronomy is something I am very keen on learning about and photographing it would be amazing.

 

[huffy]

I have not done much in the way of astro photography but looking at your shots I would say that being that close to Cheltenham you are not going to get the really dark skies you need and also it was not a cloudless night as can be seen in photos 3& 4.

I think the photos you have produced are very good.

Looking at this map of light pollution I would guess you would need to go across the Cotswold hills to get darker skies.

http://www.avex-asso.org/dossiers/pl/uk/index.html