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The Summer Triangle stars and summer Milky Way setting into the southwest on a clear though slightly hazy late November night. This is the last of the summer Milky Way, with the centre of the Galaxy are long gone now, but the Summer Triangle stars remaining in the evening sky well into autumn.

Glows from light pollution in the west light the horizon, in a quick series of images shot in my rural backyard. Vega is at right, as the brightest star; Deneb is above centre, and Altair is at below centre, farthest south in the Milky Way.

I shot this as a test image for the Nikkor 14-24mm lens , here at f/2.8 and at 14mm, where it performs beautifully, with very tight star images to the corners. it does very well at 24mm as well.

The camera was the 36-megapixel Nikon D810a, also on test, and here it shows its stuff by picking up the red nebulas in Cygnus and Cepheus. This is a stack, mean combined, of five 2-minute tracked exposures, at f/2.8 and ISO 800. The camera was on the iOptron Sky-Tracker. So the stars are not trailed but the ground is! I made no attempt here to layer in an untracked ground shot, as there isn’t much detail of interest worth showing.
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The Summer Triangle stars and summer Milky Way setting into the southwest on a clear though slightly hazy late November night. This is the last of the summer Milky Way, with the centre of the Galaxy are long gone now, but the Summer Triangle stars remaining in the evening sky well into autumn. <br /> <br /> Glows from light pollution in the west light the horizon, in a quick series of images shot in my rural backyard. Vega is at right, as the brightest star; Deneb is above centre, and Altair is at below centre, farthest south in the Milky Way. <br /> <br /> I shot this as a test image for the Nikkor 14-24mm lens , here at f/2.8 and at 14mm, where it performs beautifully, with very tight star images to the corners. it does very well at 24mm as well. <br /> <br /> The camera was the 36-megapixel Nikon D810a, also on test, and here it shows its stuff by picking up the red nebulas in Cygnus and Cepheus. This is a stack, mean combined, of five 2-minute tracked exposures, at f/2.8 and ISO 800. The camera was on the iOptron Sky-Tracker. So the stars are not trailed but the ground is! I made no attempt here to layer in an untracked ground shot, as there isn’t much detail of interest worth showing.