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Milky Way Panorama (Z6III 20S).jpg
This is a more-than-180° panorama stretching from horizon to horizon, taking in the northern summer Milky Way on an early July night. It is framed by aurora on the left and airglow on the right.
To the left (north) the sky is lit by the green and magenta glow of a faint aurora (it was barely visible to the eye), and by the blue of a perpetual summer twilight. To the right (south) the sky is tinted with green bands of airglow and the yellow of skyglows from distant towns.
The Summer Triangle stars – Vega, Deneb and Altair — are overhead at centre. Capella is circumpolar low in the north amid the aurora at left. At right is the galactic core area in Scorpius and Sagittarius, low above the southern horizon from my latitude in Alberta of 51° N.
The Milky Way is laced with dark lanes of interstellar dust, some of which extend far off the Milky Way. Some red nebulas also punctuate the Milky Way, notably the North America Nebula, NGC 7000, at centre. The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is rising in the northeast at lower left.
TECHNICAL:
This is a stitch using Adobe Camera Raw of 4 segments at 45° spacings, each a stack of 2 x 2-minute exposures with the Nikkor 20mm S-Line lens at f/2 on the stock Nikon Z6III camera at ISO 800. It was on the MSM Nomad tracker (thus the blurred ground), using a pan head that allowed turning the camera along the Milky Way in one motion to keep it centred along the long axis of the frame.
The stacked segments were exported as TIFFs and then stitched in ACR and further developed and saved as a DNG. That was brought into Photoshop for further processing. Satellites removed by hand.
To the left (north) the sky is lit by the green and magenta glow of a faint aurora (it was barely visible to the eye), and by the blue of a perpetual summer twilight. To the right (south) the sky is tinted with green bands of airglow and the yellow of skyglows from distant towns.
The Summer Triangle stars – Vega, Deneb and Altair — are overhead at centre. Capella is circumpolar low in the north amid the aurora at left. At right is the galactic core area in Scorpius and Sagittarius, low above the southern horizon from my latitude in Alberta of 51° N.
The Milky Way is laced with dark lanes of interstellar dust, some of which extend far off the Milky Way. Some red nebulas also punctuate the Milky Way, notably the North America Nebula, NGC 7000, at centre. The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is rising in the northeast at lower left.
TECHNICAL:
This is a stitch using Adobe Camera Raw of 4 segments at 45° spacings, each a stack of 2 x 2-minute exposures with the Nikkor 20mm S-Line lens at f/2 on the stock Nikon Z6III camera at ISO 800. It was on the MSM Nomad tracker (thus the blurred ground), using a pan head that allowed turning the camera along the Milky Way in one motion to keep it centred along the long axis of the frame.
The stacked segments were exported as TIFFs and then stitched in ACR and further developed and saved as a DNG. That was brought into Photoshop for further processing. Satellites removed by hand.
- Copyright
- Alan Dyer
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- 11685x3931 / 42.4MB
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