[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by alpal

Fantastic pic - well done.

Thanks for that.

Originally Posted by E_ri_k

That's pretty amazing Greg You wouldn't think that's our Milky Way. It looks like a closeup of any other galaxy, or as if had been imaged from M31 The central bulge stands out very well. I can almost imagine what it would look like face on.

Nice work
Erik

Yes you definitely get a sense of the shape of our Milky Way here. Also the top right part looks a little bit flat in shape so I wonder if we are looking at the top part of an arm with the side as well.

Originally Posted by Regulus

That's beautiful Greg

Trevor

Thanks Trevor. I like this image myself a lot and is currently my favourite image I have taken so far in astrophotography.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

awesome image, and interesting to see more red 'than usual' in the dusty regions.

cheers

rusty

The red areas are the Hydrogen Alpha and Sulphur emissions I imaged using the Proline camera and then aligned and blended them into the DSLR image to highlight those nebula areas in the Milky Way.

Originally Posted by knackers

One word: "Awesome".

Thanks for that.

Originally Posted by LightningNZ

Greg - impressive stuff. Are you cooling your D800E in any way. I'm utterly amazed at how well it can handle such long exposures.

It really shows how far these CMOS sensors have come. In the summer my Canon 300D gives an almost white image after 2 minutes just from heat.

Cheers,
Cam

Hi Cam. No cooling. Just set the intervalometer to one hour and away she goes. I checked the camera after the first time I did a 1 hour shot for temperature. Just touching around the camera in various spots to see if it felt hot. It didn't. It felt normal. There is no noise reduction set in the camera at all. I did 10 minute, 15 minute, 30 minute and 60 minute images. This one is 2 x 60 minutes as they look the best overall.

Greg.