The Galactic Core over Buttermere

Buttermere on a spring night.  Mirror calm reflections and beautifully dark skies showing the massive clouds of dust and gas at the centre of our galaxy.  Deep in these clouds lies a Supermassive black hole names Sagittarius A* and is 4 million times the mass of our own sun.  Our Galaxy contains 250-500 billion stars and from where our solar system lies Sagittarius A* is around 26,000 light years away.  The edge of our Galaxy lies around the same distance away too putting our solar system half way.

This is a tracked shot meaning I have used a mount that matched the rotation of Earth as I take the photograph therefore allowing longer exposures and more detail in the dust clouds.  A great tool to have when it comes to Milky Way photography.