Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Rising Milkyway, Michael Southam
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Rising Milkyway

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Rising Milkyway downtown over Southern pines at Cherry Springs State Park.

This is from the second night of imaging wide field shots on my Spring imaging trip to Cherry Springs. Luckily I checked the shots I got on the first night the day after as they were all out of focus. Quite a tricky task to focus a DSLR at night. You can't just set the focus during the day as every time you remove a freezing cold dead battery, which is every 10 minutes, the focus changes. I overcame this by figuring out how far I had to come back from infinite focus to get pin point stars so I could replicate the process in the dark.

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