Milky Way widefield

[Hakka (Lincoln)]

D800E, Sigma 35mm f1.4
20 x 70sec f2.8 iso1600

The attached version is a bit messy from the compression, larger HQ version here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hakka69...n/photostream/

[iceman (Mike)]

Great shot Lincoln! What were you tracking on?

[Hakka (Lincoln)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Great shot Lincoln! What were you tracking on?

Vixen Polarie, the total exposure time was 25 minutes, there was only 2 or 3 pixels movement from the first image to the last image.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely image, Lincoln!

[Paul Haese]

That is a very nice image at this scale. I really like the colouring and composition.

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Great image and nicely composed

[ChrisM]

Originally Posted by Hakka

Vixen Polarie, the total exposure time was 25 minutes, there was only 2 or 3 pixels movement from the first image to the last image.

Great image Lincoln. Ditto comments from above.

With a Polarie, how does one get such good alignment with what could presumably be only fairly primitive adjustment capability?

Chris

[Hakka (Lincoln)]

Originally Posted by ChrisM

Great image Lincoln. Ditto comments from above.

With a Polarie, how does one get such good alignment with what could presumably be only fairly primitive adjustment capability?

Chris

I just put all 4 stars in the reticule of the scope.

[RB (Andrew)]

Beautiful indeed !
Well done.

[SpaceNoob (Chris)]

Great shot! That is huge

[gregbradley]

Gorgeous.

One of the best I have seen for some time. Again it shows the value of longer exposure time over high ISO.

I've also had my eye on that lens. It gets a lot of good reviews. I don't see any chromatic aberration which is good for that speed.

Greg.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Chris,

As Lincoln has mentioned, the polar scope is great. I've been able to push out to 8 minutes at 40mm with perfect stars. In a sequence, there was perhaps one or two pixels deviation from the edge of the screen over a 1 hour period. It really is quite awesome as long as you spend the time getting the alignment bang on.

Great image, Lincoln; just the right amount of contrast and it has a painterly feel.

Originally Posted by ChrisM

Great image Lincoln. Ditto comments from above.

With a Polarie, how does one get such good alignment with what could presumably be only fairly primitive adjustment capability?

Chris

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[ChrisM]

Originally Posted by Octane

Chris,

As Lincoln has mentioned, the polar scope is great. I've been able to push out to 8 minutes at 40mm with perfect stars. In a sequence, there was perhaps one or two pixels deviation from the edge of the screen over a 1 hour period. It really is quite awesome as long as you spend the time getting the alignment bang on.

Great image, Lincoln; just the right amount of contrast and it has a painterly feel.



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Thanks Lincoln & Humayun. The Polarie is obviously a winner - judging by the growing number of successes I've seen posted. Hmmm - my camera bag is already on the aeroplane cabin limit!
Chris

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

That's a beauty Lincoln!

Great colour balance.

Cheers,

Justin.

[suma126 (Shane)]

awesome image . excellent camera buy the way

[Hakka (Lincoln)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I've also had my eye on that lens. It gets a lot of good reviews. I don't see any chromatic aberration which is good for that speed.

Greg.

Its a very good lens, you wont find a better 35mm prime.