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Milky Way in a Lensball, Didier FOURNIL

Milky Way in a Lensball

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Milky Way in a Lensball, Didier FOURNIL

Milky Way in a Lensball

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As a photographer by training, I like to approach astrophotography with purely photographic challenges, while putting celestial and terrestrial elements in relation. This has the advantage to provide concrete guidelines for the observer.
Here, the challenge was to make the Milky Way appear in a lensball... In order to obtain a satisfactory result, this requires a sky absolutely free of any light pollution, and the sky of Namibia was perfectly suited to it.
The difficulty was also to hold the ball by one hand, without that one moves during the 20 seconds of exposure, at the risk of having a blurred milky way... There, I have my little secret...

More informations on my Blog : astrocoach60.blogspot.fr

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Milky Way in a Lensball, Didier FOURNIL