Milky Way Ultra Wide Mosaic (66 degrees)

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

4 frames. Sixty-six degrees of sky. This is an adhoc mix of exposures (some 4 mins at ISO800 and others 2mins at ISO1600). The left and right sides of the pic were shot in 2007. The middle (Norma) was shot this week.

Canon 350D; 50mm EF II f1.8@f6.3; Meade LXD-75. No filters.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow that's terrific Bill !
Love to see a bigger version.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Ditto RB.

What an absolute Cracker! Bill. That would look fantastic printed out as a banner.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

,looks seamless, a peek at abigger one would be good.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Fantastic work Bill.
I love these types of shots.
The result justifies the time you've put into it.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Looks really good Bill, nice work.

Mike

[Antu]

Very nice image ! Respect !

[AlexN]

top work! I love widefields of our great galaxy!

[skeltz (Rob)]

Corker of an image there bill,would look great above a mans desk i reckon!!

[Matty P (Matt)]

10 out of 10 for that Bill! Very well done.

If possible I would love to have a look at a larger version.

[CometGuy]

Bill,

Very nice! How did you stitch that together?

Terry

[Craig.a.c (Craig)]

Beautiful job with that pic. Plenty of detail in there.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Oh god, that is WIDE, ummm, nice work

[Tamtarn]

A lot of time went into this one Bill. A fine effort!!!

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

Thanks, guys.

If you want a closeup it'll be a big download (2.9 MB! at 70% JPG compression), but I'll post a link to it soon.

Terry: I ended up just aligning them by hand in Photoshop. I tried using Canon's Photostitch but wasn't real happy with the result. Too blurry at the joins.

[sheeny (Al)]

Very nice, Bill. Looking forward to the full size version!

Al.

[winensky]

A-mazing. What a wonderfully patient effort. Cold it possibly be part of an ongoing project?