Approaching the Galactic Center (David)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: Hourglass nebula · Lagoon nebula · M 20 · M 21 · M 8 · NGC 6514 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6530 · NGC 6531 · NGC 6546 · NGC 6568 · The star 11Sgr · The star 3Sgr · The star 44Oph · The star 45Oph · The star 4Sgr · The star 51Oph · The star 58Oph · The star γ1Sgr · The star θOph · The star ξOph · Trifid nebula

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Approaching the Galactic Center

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Approaching the Galactic Center

This is a composition I tried last night.

I began imaging at 3h15 am, so not enough subs to my taste before dusk arrival.

But I'm quite satisfied with the result.

Sony A7S, 3200 ISO, Samyang 135 at f4 (to not saturate the background), 134x30 sec.

Very soft processing with PixInsight.

CS, David.

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Description: New version : preprocessing with drizzle in PixInsight (thx Marcus), some adjustments (color balance, stars reduction...), reduced to 50% in PS.

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Description: Just to add some contrast. I think this picture is fine now.

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