Starry night at Kilchurn Castle
13.01.2024

on the 13th January 3 of my friends and I went on a 3 night trip to the Scottish Highlands and one of our first sttop was at Kilchurn Castle.
I always wanted to go to this castle and getting there while it was still dark made it even more special.

Looking over Loch Awe, Kilchurn Castle was a fortress, a comfortable residence and later a garrison stronghold, and contains the oldest surviving barracks on the British mainland. Its five-storey tower house dominates the complex, with a lower hall, courtyard and barracks below.

Kilchurn Castle was built in the mid-1400s, and it remained the base of the mighty Campbells of Glenorchy for 150 years. After the first Jacobite Rising of 1689, Kilchurn was converted into a garrison stronghold, but was abandoned by the end of the 1700s.

Knowing that I will be shooting towards the North, I wasn't really expecting to capture more than stars, but as you can see in the photo, the Perseus arm of the Milky-Way was nicely rising behind the mountains.

The red patches are the Heart and Soul nebulae and the bright patches under them is the Double Cluster in Perseus.

Exif:
Modified canon 6d, Sigma 24-35mm f2 DG HSM Art lens, 3 legged thing carbon tripod

Sky: 24mm f2 10x25sec ISO3200
Foregroundr: 24mm f2 1x120sec ISO3200

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Wast Water - Lake District
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Ennerdale Water - Lake District
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Reflections at Kimmeridge Bay
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Cygnus rising at Kimmeridge Bay
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The winter Milky-Way and the mighty Hunter, Orion
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Cygnus setting at Durlston Castle
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Night Colours
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Dusk at Dungeness
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Cygnus - Hafod
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Scorpius in Wales
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The long road to Orion
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Orion rising ove the Birling Gap cliffs
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Orion over the Seven Sisters Cliffs, East Sussex
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Milky-Way over Bodiam Castle
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Dark Horse going up the cliffs (Winspit quarry)
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Cygnus rising over the cliffs of Durdle Door
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Milky-Way over Durdle door
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Birling Gap
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Hitchwood Country park
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Even the skies are wondering what my telescopes are shooting
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St. Albans Cathedral
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Constellations and Asterisms
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Misty Morning at Bentley Priory Nature Reserve
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Night Sky at Charmouth Beach
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Milky Way at Charmouth Beach
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Milky Way at Charmouth Beach
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Night Sky at Charmouth Beach
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Sunset over Lyme Regis
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Old Packhorse Bridge Carrbridge
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Mountain flowers
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Enchanted forest
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Top of Cairn Gorm
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Enchanted forest
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Loch Garten at night
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Loch Mallachie
Cairngorms National Park, August 2020

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Falls of Foyers
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Cairn Gorm
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Falls of Foyers
Scotland, August 2020

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Old Packhorse Bridge
Carrbridge, August 2020

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Reflections
Loch Garten, August 2020

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Summertime
Loch Garten, August 2020

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Stormy seas
Charmouth, August 2020

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The power of the sea
Charmouth, August 2020

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Grand Union Canal

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Fiery Sky

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Milky way hunter

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Comet Neowise

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Good morning!

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Noctilucent clouds
Bignor Hill, 2020

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Milky way over Burton Mill Pond

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River Colne

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