# Milkyway over Montana

**URL:** <https://discourse.okcastro.club/t/milkyway-over-montana/1211>\
**Category:** Astrophotography\
**Created:** [August 7, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.okcastro.club/t/milkyway-over-montana/1211 "2025-08-07T16:11:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jenisonam](https://discourse.okcastro.club/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@jenisonam](https://discourse.okcastro.club/u/jenisonam)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.okcastro.club/t/milkyway-over-montana/1211/1 "2025-08-07T16:11:48Z")

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Hello everyone

I recently had a vacation in Montana and luckily was under some incredibly dark skies. Had to take some gear with me and this is one of the images from there. Not quite to scale since background was taken with DSLR and foreground was taken with my phone but still think it came out great.

 ![1000005630](https://discourse.okcastro.club/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a79a171bf5ea088f571b02803e8d3a9ad934276a.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![mpsurge](https://discourse.okcastro.club/user_avatar/discourse.okcastro.club/mpsurge/32/952_2.png) [@mpsurge](https://discourse.okcastro.club/u/mpsurge)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.okcastro.club/t/milkyway-over-montana/1211/2 "2025-08-07T21:20:34Z")

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Great detail, I was almost expecting a mushroom cloud at the top from the it appears to explode from the top of the hill. lol

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**Author:** ![mmabbott](https://discourse.okcastro.club/user_avatar/discourse.okcastro.club/mmabbott/32/165_2.png) [@mmabbott](https://discourse.okcastro.club/u/mmabbott)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.okcastro.club/t/milkyway-over-montana/1211/3 "2025-08-11T10:17:40Z")

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Very Nice Composition. Great Focus.

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**Author:** ![CatsPaw](https://discourse.okcastro.club/user_avatar/discourse.okcastro.club/catspaw/32/474_2.png) [@CatsPaw](https://discourse.okcastro.club/u/CatsPaw)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://discourse.okcastro.club/t/milkyway-over-montana/1211/4 "2025-08-30T02:26:41Z")

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Shots like this always make me think that I’m on the Observation Deck of a spaceship. It is a beautiful view when the lights are off and the Deck is lit only by star-shine.