Milky Way widefield

[Hakka]

D800E, Sigma 35mm f1.4
20 x 70sec f2.8 iso1600

The attached version is a bit messy from the compression, larger HQ version here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hakka69/8659236354/sizes/o/in/photostream/

[iceman]

Great shot Lincoln! What were you tracking on?

[Hakka]

Vixen Polarie, the total exposure time was 25 minutes, there was only 2 or 3 pixels movement from the first image to the last image.

[Larryp]

Lovely image, Lincoln!

[Paul Haese]

That is a very nice image at this scale. I really like the colouring and composition.

[lacad01]

Great image and nicely composed :thumbsup:

[ChrisM]

Great image Lincoln. Ditto comments from above.

With a Polarie, how does one get such good alignment with what could presumably be only fairly primitive adjustment capability?

Chris

[Hakka]

I just put all 4 stars in the reticule of the scope.

[RB]

Beautiful indeed !
Well done.

[SpaceNoob]

Great shot! That is huge :)

[gregbradley]

Gorgeous.

One of the best I have seen for some time. Again it shows the value of longer exposure time over high ISO.

I've also had my eye on that lens. It gets a lot of good reviews. I don't see any chromatic aberration which is good for that speed.

Greg.

[Octane]

Chris,

As Lincoln has mentioned, the polar scope is great. I've been able to push out to 8 minutes at 40mm with perfect stars. In a sequence, there was perhaps one or two pixels deviation from the edge of the screen over a 1 hour period. It really is quite awesome as long as you spend the time getting the alignment bang on.

Great image, Lincoln; just the right amount of contrast and it has a painterly feel.



H

[ChrisM]

Thanks Lincoln & Humayun. The Polarie is obviously a winner - judging by the growing number of successes I've seen posted. Hmmm - my camera bag is already on the aeroplane cabin limit!
Chris

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

That's a beauty Lincoln!

Great colour balance.

Cheers,

Justin.

[suma126]

awesome image :thumbsup:. excellent camera buy the way :eyepop:

[Hakka]

Its a very good lens, you wont find a better 35mm prime.