Outer Halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud

[gregbradley]

Carrying on from my earlier images of the LMC and the Ghost of Magellan here is a recent image I took showing the outer halo of stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its quite a bit larger than what is normally seen. You can also see the little tidal stream coming off the SMC.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/168674174/large

Sony A7r3 200 x 30 seconds ISO 3200 Sigma Art 35mm F1.4. Using Sony's pixel shift technology, taken at my dark site on a Vixen Polarie tracker.

I used PixInsight for some of the processing (aligning and stacking).

Greg.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

That's an impressive image Greg, and look at all them stars!

[Atmos (Colin)]

You’ve gone quite deep with that dust!
What F/Stop did you use with the 35mm

I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while but lacking a suitable lens.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Love it Greg!
Does seem a tad blurry at full res though, even more so at the corners?
Sooooo many stars
Confirms the notion that “there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on all the beaches on the Earth”.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very cool Greg. Deep as. Colours are very nice too.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Joshua Bunn

That's an impressive image Greg, and look at all them stars!

Thanks Josh. It is surprising how many stars there are in that area.

Originally Posted by Atmos

You’ve gone quite deep with that dust!
What F/Stop did you use with the 35mm

Sigma Art 35mm F1.4 at F1.4.

I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while but lacking a suitable lens.

Originally Posted by Andy01

Love it Greg!
Does seem a tad blurry at full res though, even more so at the corners?
Sooooo many stars
Confirms the notion that “there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on all the beaches on the Earth”.

The lens wide open at F1.4 does seem to have a little bit of aberration. The price you pay for the F1.4.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Very cool Greg. Deep as. Colours are very nice too.

Cheers Marc. I was wanting to go as deep as possible.

Greg.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Very impressive Greg.

[RickS (Rick)]

Halo to the max

[h0ughy (David)]

Sorry all I see is dust ; )

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Very impressive Greg.

Thanks Geoff

Originally Posted by RickS

Halo to the max

Cheers Rick

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Sorry all I see is dust ; )

There certainly is a lot of dust in the area but the halo is real.

Greg.

[OICURMT]

I suspect that if you had continued to gether photons, you would have ended up with a completely white image

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by OICURMT

I suspect that if you had continued to gether photons, you would have ended up with a completely white image

Hehe yes, it was gaining photons at a mad rate. F1.4 really captures a lot of light.

Greg.