The Milky Way moves across the night sky in this stunning composite image recently sent to SPACE.com.
Astrophotographer Mike Taylor combined 65 frames from a static time lapse of our host galaxy to create this beautiful image. He stacked the frames of the sequence to make a standard star trails image and then blended/masked in a single frame of the Milky Way.
Taylor took the image from Pemaquid, Maine on June 16 at 11:32 p.m. to 12:10 a.m. local time using a Nikon D7000 camera and Tokina 11-16 @ 11mm f/2.8 – 65 x 25 sec - ISO 2000. The photo was processed through Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS5. [Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy (Gallery)]
