Mostly clear. Very bright Jupiter just visible over the horizon at our location.

Gear:

• Canon EOS 200D
• Tokina AT-X Pro SD 11-16mm f/2.8 (IF) DX
• Sigma F2.8 105mm EX DG HSM OS
• Tripod

Weather:

• Mostly clear

Location:

• Garden

Software

• Rawtherapee - RAW file importing, optical correction & image processing
• GIMP - RAW/TIF to JPEG, cropping

The first two images are the closest I've been able to get of the Milky Way - at my latitude and this time of year it's not greatly visible as you only get the tail edge drifting above the horizon. At ISO 3200 I can just start to make out some of the denser areas in the middle of the image. Longer exposures and/or stacking would definitely help here.

Fig. 1: Tokina F2.8 11mm, ISO3200 20s, processed from RAW Fig. 2: Tokina F2.8 11mm, ISO3200 20s, unprocessed JPEG

Fig. 3: Tokina F2.8 11mm, ISO1600 20s, processed from RAW Fig. 4: Tokina F2.8 11mm, ISO1600 20s, unprocessed JPEG

Jupiter was just visible above the tops of the trees in our garden, and I tried a few variations of exposures and ISO speeds. The one below (ISO 3200, 15 seconds) was probably the best of the bunch:

Fig. 5: Tokina F2.8 11mm, ISO3200 15s, processed from RAW Fig. 6: Tokina F2.8 11mm, ISO3200 15s, unprocessed JPEG

I also tried out a longer lens, my Sigma 105mm, I definitely need some more practice with this one at night. 3 second exposures is just beyond what you can do at 105mm, so it really should have been 2.5s. The below image is the best of the few shots I took with it. Clearer image of Jupiter, but not as good imaging of the general starfield background:

Fig. 7: Sigma F2.8 105mm, ISO3200 3s, processed from RAW Fig. 8: Sigma F2.8 105mm, ISO3200 3s, unprocessed JPEG