Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  1 b Sco  ·  10 ome02 Sco  ·  10.57  ·  11 Sco  ·  11.34  ·  11.63  ·  11.91  ·  11.94  ·  11.99  ·  115 Thyra  ·  118 Peitho  ·  12 c01 Sco  ·  12.03  ·  12.07  ·  12.09  ·  12.37  ·  12.43  ·  12.48  ·  12.49  ·  12.50  ·  13 c02 Sco  ·  13 zet Oph  ·  13.00  ·  13.24  ·  13.33  ·  13.46  ·  13.93  ·  139 Juewa  ·  14 nu. Sco  ·  14.18  ·  And 795 more.
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Scorpius and Milky Way, Steve de Lisle
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Scorpius and Milky Way

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Scorpius and Milky Way

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I recently purchased an Ioptron Sky Tracker and tried it out with my Canon 7dMarkii and a Samyang 24mm F1.4 lens to see what it could do. The weather has been really bad lately and i only had a small window of opportunity before the clouds came in, so i polar aligned as accurately as i could ( using the polar finder is useless in the southern hemisphere) and captured 30 frames of 90 seconds each at F4. No calibration frames - i just stacked the subs in APP and processed it entirely in Photoshop. This image is the first one i have ever done entirely in Photoshop which is utterly alien to me. As a relative beginner, I've invested all my time learning Pixinsight which i find a lot more easy to understand. Nonetheless, I battled through using some online video tutorials. While the image needs a lot more data, I thought it wasn't that bad - so here it is - Scorpius with the Milky Way and the Rho Ophiuchus cloud complex.

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Scorpius and Milky Way, Steve de Lisle

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