"Milkyway - from North to South" (Thomas ArtOfPix Großschmidt)

"Milkyway - from North to South"

"Milkyway - from North to South"

- The Milky Way Line over Tulln on the Danube / Vienna

For the first time I photographed the entire visible band of the Summer Milky Way in an arc. Yes, really, is my first whole Milkyway, I somehow never did that ^^ So I wasn't sure about the settings, especially how it works in a mosaic panorama ^^ that The problem with this is, as here with a 14mm focal length, that the panorama "warps" because of the parallax error with such wide-angled lenses! I also did some research, but I guess there was no herb there, you have to live with it - or you create a composing like I did here.

Composing yes, but can you see the Milky Way in the sky like that? Yes and no ^^

You can already see it when the sky is dark, when it stretches across the sky from north to south high across the sky at the zenith - when taking pictures in the center of the MQ, the camera was in the 3rd row straight up ^^

By creating the panorama, this arch is then created in 180 ° view :-)

Short processing sequence:

3 rows of 7 panels each with about 25% overlap were recorded.

Then in Pixinsight the individual panels are stacked with 6 images each, background neutralization, color calibration and main stretch applied, saved as 16-bit Tiff and transferred to PTGUI.

In PTGUI a panorama of the ground with horizon was created, as well as a panorama of the top 2 rows with Milk Street. Continue in Photoshop, combine the two panoramas, align them again by deforming them at the curved corners and finish with final post-processing.

| Object: Milky Way Band Panorama

| Stack: Mosaic panorama made up of 21 individual images

| EBV: Pixinsight / Adobe PS&LR / PTGui / AstraImage

| Camera: Sony A7 AMod / Sigma Art 14mm f / 1.8

| Stuff: IDAS HEUIB-II UV / IR hAlpha filter

| Exif: BLZ 6x 10s per panel / ISO3200 / f / 2.8

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