Norway Astronomy Photographer
Captures Milky Way
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Oslo, February 17 – Norway photographer Frank Otto Pedersen has long envisioned the Milky Way : Melkeveien like a bow over Preikestolen : Pulpit Rock. But to be able to take just the right photo from the Nighttime Sky he had to account for moon phases, the calendar and Weather’s stemme : choice.
This past weekend Frank Otto Pedersen and his mate Thomas Hegna drove to the Ryfylke District in Rogaland county Norway. It is on the lower western peninsula facing the Nordsee : North Sea.
Here are the Preikestolen and Kjerag Mountains. Preikestolen means Pulpit Rock and this is where the photo was taken. The pair took along a tent, camera equipment and set up camp over the Pulpit Rock plateau Saturday night.
The image is composed of 18 vertical exposures. Six of the foreground, taken at half past eight in the evening on Saturday.
– I took the photo when the moon was up, because I wanted the image to have moonlight. But the moonlight had broken visibility at the Milky Way on Norway’s : Norge southern peninsula.
The 12 last exposures are taken around five-thirty Sunday morning.
– When I looked out the tent at 0445 to photograph the sky, there were clouds. Fortunately they broke giving me a window of 45 minutes before the sun began to make its rise. The photographic images are put together and processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Trolltunga
Pedersen works as a Landscape photographer in Kristiansand, and also has an interest in astronomy and astro photography. For him there is extra reward when the interests can be combined.
– It takes a lot of planning. It’s fun, but it’s quite comprehensive. You must have some knowledge of astronomy to determine when you’re going to capture a certain image in the nighttime sky. It adds an extra dimension to the pleasure of taking such images, says Pedersen. Now the rest of the country’s Night Sky attractions are on his wish list.
Frank Otto’s mate Thomas Hegna captured this photo of the photographer at Preikestolplatået : Pulpit Rock Plateau.
– I’ve thought a lot about how I can take different pictures of the famous tourist destinations. Trolltunga is a goal, and it would be nice to photograph the stars over Snøhetta and Trollstigen.
