Milkyway Panorama

[Beyond_Vision]

As promised here is my first ever panaroma of the Milky Way taken at the Salisbury Star Party. Three sections with an hour of data for each taken with a Canon 400d and a Sigma 17-35mm lens set to 17mm F4 ISO 800 on an Astrotrac Mount. Stitched together with San Serif Panorama Plus.

(click to enlarge)

Regards

Kevin

[ENWOD]

That is stunning Congratulations! I bet you are more than satisfied with that.

I'd like to give this a try myself someday; what are the minimum exposures/stacking needed to bring out details in the Milky Way?

[Tim]

That's incredible Kev, just stunning. I guess the astrotrac just paid for itself!

Tim

[Astronut]

OMG :shock: :salute: That's come out really well. Congratulations Kevin, you must be proud of that. The North American neb is immediately obvious and a closer examination should reveal more DSO's. I can see the Coathanger asterism hanging in the Cygnus Rift too.

Could this be a contender for POTW?

[Beyond_Vision]

That is stunning Congratulations! I bet you are more than satisfied with that.

I'd like to give this a try myself someday; what are the minimum exposures/stacking needed to bring out details in the Milky Way?

I would go for at least 10 x 5 min subs for each part of the mosaic at ISO800.

Thanks for the great comments all. It certainly was a wow moment when that popped out of the stitching program. I may have another go at the individual frames to get a better balance when I have some time.

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

I have been waiting for you to stitch it together Kevin, and I have to say you have made a hell of a good job of it. I love these images of our home galaxy, they don't appear all that much.

They give us a reality check regarding the scale of things. We see countless stars in this portion of the MWG, giving us a sense of the enormity of the Universe.

This is a superb Image.

Ron.

[markcol]

That's great work, Kevin!

Mark

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Kevin,

I was waiting to see the stitch and what software you were going to use to do it

Billy....

[Starflyer]

Great mosiac Kevin, well worth the effort and processing time

Ian

[stargazer1980]

Wow thats stunning kevin! Infact i like it that much that its my new Avatar on SGL LOL

Nice Work kevin

Darren

[timetraveller]

Oh nice one kev superb image captured it beautifully definatley a contender for POW. The milky way was certainly a stunning site from the campsite, i know i spent a fair while just soaking it all up in my bino's infact it made the whole weekend for me regards Pete

[brendant]

Stunning mosaic Kevin, beautiful detail and scale.

Brendan

[steppenwolf]

Absolutely stunning, you must have had great skies!

[trevboyd]

Great mosaic, Kevin - I like that a lot!

Trev

[Sam]

Awesome Kevin!!! well done, a lot of work has gone into to that and it's certainly paid off!

[Aza]

Stunning! Well done

[narrowbandpaul]

yep, thats the milky way alright..jeez thats seriosuly good...

[Sunshine Maddness]

Absolutely breath taking well done!

[Keagle]

Kevin, that is absolutely stunning. Nice job mate.

Kurt

[dogfish]

Well done Kevin. An absolute pearler!

Martin

[tarqs101]

That is absolutly stunning!!

Well done!!

Gavin

[charmedkelly]

Thats Really Amazing Kevin Its Truely Stunning u have done a good job its a photo to be proud of

kelly x

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks all for your really nice comments. I have been dying to have a go at this from a dark skies location and was so pleased that we had 2 clear nights at the Salisbury Star Party.

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

Yep!, definitely bound for the Astro Mags that one.

It's just Wow.

Ron.

[themos]

The bottom right section, in particular, is outstanding.