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Southern Cross Mosaic

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Southern Cross Mosaic

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From as early as I can remember whenever I looked up to the night sky the first object I always looked for was the Southern Cross. Whenever I fly at night I always look out for the Southern Cross region. Camping with my brother he first taught me how to navigate using the Southern Cross the the two "pointers" (Alpha and Beta Centauri). Good times.

This is a 6 panel Mosaic I took over 3 nights, two frames per night. Approximately 2 hours of Luminance and 40 mins each channel of RGB. To the bottom left is the Coal sack.
I wanted to highlight the main stars of the cross because that's what obviously stands out when you look with the naked eye, at the same time show just how many stars exist in this region of the sky. Imagesolver recognised just over 1.2 million stars above 16 magnitude.

At my latitude this region is never below my horizon. The Southern Cross is low at the moment, and on its side in January and February and as it rises with the months, so too does the milky way core bringing our Southern Summer to an end.

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Description: I forgot to DBE the Luminance frame and removed the gradient. More even across the picture..

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Southern Cross Mosaic, Matt Hughes