Taken by piggybacking the 5D on a Meade ETX-90, roughly polar aligned. 4 x 5 min exposures at ISO 800 plus 2 x 1 min exposures at ISO 1600, stacked for noise reduction in Deep Sky Stacker then finished in Photoshop.
The elongated fuzzy 'star' over to the left is the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbour at 2.5 million light years.
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Great finish but would of liked to of seen a ribbon with it. The best shot of the milky way I have seen for a very long time.. Got to get myself upto Knapdale Forest.
I hope people appreciate the amount of work put into getting this type of photo. Will be interesting to see where you took it from and the settings you used. You get a 10 from me!
A reminder just how small and inconsequential we are in the greater scheme of things... oh and a lovely photo too!
Its a wonderful documentary type of photo. I wish it had a bit of something here on earth too in the shot to show the scale etc... kind of like the other shot in this challenge.
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