Milky Way Rainbow

[rogerg]

Hi all,

Here's an image I published on Monday but haven't got around to posting here yet. It's from last weekend.

I haven't often done panoramics. I think the previous one before this was my Magellincs + Milky Way (http://astrophotography.com.au/product/panoramic-magellanic-clouds-and-milky-way-silhouettes/) which was from 2010. The difference in technology between then and now means the difference between over an hour of exposure time vs only a few minutes in this case.

http://astrophotography.com.au/milky-way-rainbow/

This photograph reminds me of a rainbow because of the arching milky way and colours surrounding it.

Enjoy :thumbsup:

[Larryp]

Great image, Roger

[gregbradley]

That's a beauty Roger and nicely processed - very natural.
Was this with a 6D? Do you have a larger image?

Greg.

[rogerg]

Thanks :)


Yeap, was with the 6D, and using my Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 @ 24mm f/2.8. I think each exposure was 20 seconds @ 6400ISO.

Thanks for your comments regarding processing, good to have the feedback. I haven't prepared a larger one for web yet, I thought 1500x was pretty reasonable :)

[iceman]

Another great result.

[ourkind]

Nice work!

[Danny_86]

wow, this is amazing. I've tried to do a panoramic but have been unsuccessfull I'm not sure on the processing part of it, plus the sky rotation makes it hard, is there any techniques you able to share?

cheers

[rogerg]

Thanks Mike & Carlos, sorry for delay in acknowledging your replies, I haven't been on here much of late.



My first panoramics a few years ago were quite hard. The processing time was measured in hours as I stitched and blended series of long exposures (stacks of 3 and 5 minute exposures etc). And that was after I went through the trouble of setting up a full size telescope mount to capture them.

This last set was taken with the 6D, and that makes all the difference. It's sensitivity makes an enormous difference not only in how you can easily merge frames of a panoramic because they are shot so soon after each other but also in the more dynamic colour which is rendered in the RAW image before any processing is even done on the panoramic.

So, if you feel like you're bending over backwards trying to get a decent result, it might not be your personal capabilities or knowledge at fault :)

[Ross G]

Beautiful photo Roger.

Love the composition.


Ross.

[rogerg]

Thanks Ross, much appreciated.