Central Milky Way - Astrofest

[Garbz (Chris)]

Not sure if this qualifies as deep space, but here it is anyway.
While taking photos of M16 during astrofest I piggybacked my D800 and 14mm lens under the scope.

I wonder now what this would look like if I had a camera sensitive to IR mounted there instead. The D800 has horrendous Ha response, but Hb comes up beautifully.

Large Version - 8MB

Hope you enjoy.

As a side note I just realised that IIS strips out the ICC profiles of images as they are uploaded. I've always thought that pictures appear a bit too saturated when I upload them here.

[multiweb (Marc)]

This is really cool. The high-res is incredibly detailed. Very nice.

[pvelez (Pete)]

Chris- that is a wonderful image. The framing is just right

Pete

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Beautiful image Chris!

Very crisp.

Cheers,

Justin.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

That is very nice. I always prefer Rho on top so the dust looks like it's falling down to MW.

[RickS (Rick)]

Lovely image, Chris, with the Galactic Kiwi well displayed.

[PeterEde (Peter)]

Awesome. Makes me want to go camping ASAP

[batema (Mark)]

That is beautiful and so sharp.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Great superwide image Chris, I love it!
Clear skies
Marco

[gregbradley]

Very nice. Was that the Nikon 14mm or the Nikon 14-24?

Greg.

[FranckiM06]

Wow, it is fantastic shot

[Asterix2020 (Paul)]

Nice and sharp Chris.

[Spookyer (Brett)]

Good one.

[Garbz (Chris)]

Thanks all. Glad you enjoyed it.

I'm thinking of annotating all the things I've taken photos of and putting it on my website so you can click the section of the milky way and then bring up the photo.
Except now I need two more of these pictures, one pointing north and one pointing south.

Originally Posted by troypiggo

That is very nice. I always prefer Rho on top so the dust looks like it's falling down to MW.

Everyone's a critic . Actually you are right but due to the framing when I flip it upside down it looks really unbalanced. There's too much emptyness on the other side of the Milkyway to reverse the image. Next time maybe.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice. Was that the Nikon 14mm or the Nikon 14-24?

Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8. Truly a wonderful lens. I used to give my girlfriend crap about running around with her Olympus 7-14mm all the time, but since I bought the 14-24 I've barely removed it from the camera.

[Paul Haese]

This is a nicely rendered image. Great field of view too. Colours are good, though I would back off the blue just a little. Think that is a little over powering.

Its a real nice display of our galaxy.

[Garbz (Chris)]

Thanks Paul, which version are you looking at? Found out when I posted this that IIS strips the ICC profiles out of images when it resizes them so the picture on the forum is far more saturated than it actually is, the Large one looks less saturated.

[elfinke (Trev)]

Cracking image! Thanks for sharing.

Possibly daft question: 14mm at f/2.8, how long was this exposure?

[Garbz (Chris)]

I actually stopped down to f/3.5

ISO 100 and the exposures were 8 minutes each. 21 frames in total for just shy of 3 hours of shooting time.

[RobF (Rob)]

Great work Chris - love the zoomed out version most - an intangible glow in the centre that really makes you feel like you're looking out towards the centre of the disk.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Yeap, that's deep space Chris.

Excellent image! You've showcased the dust very nicely.

Congratulations!