Milky Way rising over Durdle Door (Custom Print) Interest_History Xavier Strottner

Xavier Strottner

taken from locations across the globe

and nautical lovers

The island of St Martin’s is home to the UK’s most Southerly community observatory – COSMOS – so these pieces are also a celebration of grassroots astronomy and Scilly’s dark skies

Britain's power came from the sea so any representation of the sea was always in the mind of designers

Milky Way rising over Durdle Door (Custom Print) Interest_History Xavier StrottnerThe largest astrophotography competition in the world, Astronomy Photographer of the Year showcases the very best space photography from a global community of photographers. This image shows the Milky Way rising over Durdle Door with Saturn and Jupiter to the left of the frame, just above the horizon. To achieve less noise in the image, I used a star tracking mount to lengthen the cameras shutter speed, however this also creates motion blur in the