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Milky Way, last chance, 



    
        

            Aleix Roig
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            Aleix Roig

Acquisition details

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 5150746

Resolution: 4021x4121

File size: 5.8 MB

Locations: Prades-Montsant mountains, Tarragona, Spain

Data source: Traveller

Description

Milky Way, last chance 

The Milky Way's season has reached its end. But a few minutes every day we can still capture several of its beauties. Living at 41º North does this job even harder. But I accepted the challenge. According to my calculations I could have around 20 minutes before the setting of two amazing nebulae, the Lagoon (Messier 8 ) and Trifid (Messier 20) Nebulae.

The night of the 26th of October 2021 the sunset announced a pristine dark night. The absence of the Moon the first part of the night made possible this "out of the season" picture of the Sagittarius region. It was captured at Pla de la Guàrdia, one of my favourite places to stargaze at my home village of Prades. 

To capture this image I blended a stacked image of the sky, composed of 34x30" exposures, with a 2 pane mosaic of the landscape captured just after the last of those 34 exposures. I used a star tracker to capture the sky images. 



Image details:

Landscape: 2 pane mosaic 2x30" 2500ISO f/2.8

Sky: Stacking of 34x30" 2500ISO f/2.8
Calibration: darks, flats, dark-flats.

Total exposure: 18 minutes.

Data acquisition: 26th of October 2021.

Location: Pla de la Guàrdia, Prades (Tarragona, Catalonia - Spain).
Darkness: 21.20 mag/arcsec2


Equipment:

Lens: Samyang 135mm
Camera: SonyA7S mod
Mount: SW Star Adventurer 

Aleix Roig - Prades (Tarragona, Spain), October 2021.

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Description: Milky Way, last chance 

The Milky Way's season has reached its end. But a few minutes every day we can still capture several of its beauties. Living at 41º North does this job even harder. But I accepted the challenge. According to my calculations I could have around 20 minutes before the setting of two amazing nebulae, the Lagoon (Messier 8) and Trifid (Messier 20) Nebulae.

The night of the 26th of October 2021 the sunset announced a pristine dark night. The absence of the Moon the first part of the night made possible this "out of the season" picture of the Sagittarius region. It was captured at Pla de la Guàrdia, one of my favourite places to stargaze at my home village of Prades. 

To capture this image I blended a stacked image of the sky, composed of 34x30" exposures, with a 2 pane mosaic of the landscape captured just after the last of those 34 exposures. I used a star tracker to capture the sky images. 



Image details:

Landscape: 2 pane mosaic 2x30" 2500ISO f/2.8

Sky: Stacking of 34x30" 2500ISO f/2.8
Calibration: darks, flats, dark-flats.

Total exposure: 18 minutes.

Data acquisition: 26th of October 2021.

Location: Pla de la Guàrdia, Prades (Tarragona, Catalonia - Spain).
Darkness: 21.20 mag/arcsec2


Equipment:

Lens: Samyang 135mm
Camera: SonyA7S mod
Mount: SW Star Adventurer 

Aleix Roig - Prades (Tarragona, Spain), October 2021.

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