youtu.be/CMV4dl-x0TcThe Milky Way is setting 4 minutes earlier, every day. This late into Summer, the window of time to see the Milky Way this year is rapidly closing. While I plan to image it as much as possible before the Autumn and Winter skies bring their treasures, I thought it would be appropriate to give the Summer views of our home galaxy a send-off of sorts in the form of a jaw-dropping image. This is my first attempt at doing an advanced mosaic with a foreground landscape, unfortunately where the Milky Way sets is swamped with light pollution from Albuquerque but I tried to subtract as much as possible while still trying to be true to the scene.
Acquisition Details:
Image is a 3-pane mosaic covering roughly ~35 degrees of sky on the vertical axis. A still image of the ground has been blended in with the tracked mosaic
Captured on August 21, 2019 from my backyard near Santa Fe, NM
Top Panel:
2x30"
Middle Panel
2x30"
Bottom Panel
2x30" tracked
1x30" untracked for the ground
3 minutes 30 seconds total integration for the whole mosaic
ISO-1600
f/3.2
Bortle Class 4 skies
Gear:
Camera - EOS350D unmodded
Lens - Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM
Mount - NyxTech NyxTracker
Tripod
Software Used:
Adobe Camera Raw
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
PixInsight 1.8
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