My Fall Back - The Milky Way

[Star Catcher]

Hi All

Windy conditions on Saturday night put paid to imaging through the scope, so I decided to try out some wide field work with the Canon 6D on the milky way. I used the main scope to track.

Canon 6D with noise reduction on.
Taken with a 90mm lens @ F5.6.
5 exposures of 30 seconds stacked in deepskystacker = 2.5 minutes
Taken at ISO 10,000
Each of the five 30 second exposures was actually an averaged stack of 9 x 30 seconds exposures done within the camera to produce a single averaged 30 second image.

A larger 50% scaled image can be found here:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/extraspace3/MilkyWay10thAug.jpg


Ted

[Peter Ward]

What a spell-binding result Ted!

I'd be more than happy with that :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Star Catcher]

Hi Peter, thanks. Yes I got a nice surprise at how well the camera handles in-camera averaging and the resulting low noise.

Ted

[iceman]

Beautiful, love that!

[nebulosity.]

Thats awesome :thumbsup: love the colours :thumbsup:

Jo

[Larryp]

Very nice, Ted!

[Star Catcher]

Thanks Mike, Jo and Larry!

Ted

[Paul Haese]

Lovely work Ted. I really like the colours.

[ourkind]

Nice shot!

[Star Catcher]

Thank you Paul. As always a bit of balancing act with colour and viewers preferences. :)



Thanks!

[multiweb]

Great shot Ted. Unreal colours. :thumbsup:

[Ross G]

A great photo Ted.

Beautiful colours.

Ross.