73-panel mosaic of the milky way over La Palma's southern volcanoes (Adrien Mauduit)

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73-panel mosaic of the milky way over La Palma's southern volcanoes

Link: https://www.nightlightsfilms.com/photography?pgid=k7lygcju-d04468cc-295f-4923-a9f7-f9b69669a280

73-panel mosaic of the milky way over La Palma's southern volcanoes

Link: https://www.nightlightsfilms.com/photography?pgid=k7lygcju-d04468cc-295f-4923-a9f7-f9b69669a280

My most achieved image of the milky way to date. I had been waiting a whole year to realize and complete this project I had in mind for some time. I was trying to find ways to produce an extremely detailed and colorful picture of the milky way. As I have done many 50mm panorama in the past, I wanted to try something even more challenging and crazy, so I decided to not use an 85mm but go all the way to 135mm. Since the Samyang 135mm f2 is one of the best lenses for astrophotography (minus the weird halo at the center), I used it with my astromoded 6D and headed to La Palma island (Bortle 1-2) to get this pano. But this wasn't a piece of cake. Out of the 10 days I was there, only a few had no calima, this haze coming from the Sahara desert. On the shooting night, it wasn't a done deal either as I had to battle with the wind during my multiple one-minute exposures! Then, I had no guiding so I shot the 73 pictures just using the view finder for star alignment and hoping I got enough overlap! After 2 hours of integration, some calibration frame and hours of post-processing (the milky way moves so fast at 135mm so foreground and background are so hard to blend!), I am so excited and proud to unveil the result, which I am SO happy about.

Pano of 73 shots, Canon 6D modded + Samyang 135 mm f2 + Star adventurer Pro tracker + Kase LP filter. Foreground is untracked, background is tracked.

Sky: 56 x single 1-minute lights at ISO 3200, f2.8 + calibration frames

Foreground: 17 x 1 minute at ISO 6400, f2, no LP filter

The same gear and tripod position were used, the shots were taken back to back. The sky was blended as it was with the foreground as I started shooting the pano.

Stitched in PtGui Pro, Edited in PixInsight, Lr and Ps for final touches.

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