Milky Way Photography — Dark Sky Locations

The Milky Way core standing over the sea from a boulder shoreline in Crete, green airglow banded along the horizon — oxygen recombining around 90 kilometres up, faint enough that only a long exposure records it.
The Milky Way core above the sea of clouds from near Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, with the moon setting orange on the horizon — the summit sits at 2,400 metres, above the trade-wind inversion that traps the cloud layer and the island's light ben
The Milky Way arching over Cuernos del Paine across Lago Pehoé, Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia — the galactic core sits far higher in southern skies than northern ones, which is why the band curves across the frame rather than standing upright.
The Milky Way core above a Quechua rooftop tent, in Karpathos, Greece — one of the least populated islands in the Aegean, with almost nothing between the campsite and the horizon to lift the sky.
The Milky Way over the cloud sea filling the Caldera de Taburiente, seen from near Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, with the moon and Venus low in the twilight — the trade-wind inversion holds the cloud below 1,800 metres, leaving the summit clear a
The Milky Way over Joshua trees and monzogranite outcrops, Joshua Tree National Park, California — the rock is eroded plutonic granite that cooled underground before the desert wore the surface off it, and the park's dark sky designation keeps the ho
The Milky Way core above the MAGIC gamma-ray telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma — their segmented mirrors catch the faint blue flashes produced when gamma rays from distant galaxies strike the upper atmosphere, which is why th
The Milky Way over the limestone ridge of Mount Tymfi, Pindos, northern Greece — the range holds some of the darkest skies in the country, and the Vikos Gorge cutting through it below is among the deepest in the world relative to its width.
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