Attempt at widefield galactic imaging
December 28, 2011 at 1:52 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 2:43 am by orogenicman.)
I took this image in August, 2010. It was my first attempt at a long exposure widefield image of a part of the Milky Way. This photo was taken with my Hutech modified Canon T1i using the standard 18-55mm lens, set at 55mm, f5. The image is a stack of 12 x 3 minute exposures for a total of 36 minutes exposure. I didn't work on this for a long time because I hated the result, but have since figured out how to get a better result. Still, it isnt as good as it could be. I had fog roll in (which is the milky streaks you see in the image), and the lens isn't a very good one, as it doesn't focus as well as you'd expect from such an expensive camera, it has vignetting, and is not a flat field. But for my first widefield long exposure of the Milky Way, I think I could have done a lot worse. Anyway, here it is for your amusement/enjoyment:
![[Image: cygnus-1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fcygnus-1.jpg)
Cygnus Region Of The Milky Way, as seen from Taylorsville Lake, Kentucky
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
