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]

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

[Atmos]

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]

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

[multiweb]

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

[gregbradley]

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





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



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

Greg.

[Geoff45]

Very impressive Greg.

[RickS]

Halo to the max :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

Sorry all I see is dust ; )

[gregbradley]

Thanks Geoff



Cheers Rick



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]

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

Greg.