Reaching the skies (Bea Budai & Zsolt Paragi)

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Reaching the skies

The Dwingeloo radio telescope is an iconic telescope that has studied the Milky Way for over 50 years. It made important discoveries, like revealing the flattening in the rotation curve of our own galaxy (one of the first arguments for the existence of dark matter) and mapping the distribution of hydrogen clouds all over the skies. The DOGS survey revealed a nearby galaxy behind the obscuring clouds of the Milky Way in 1994, which is known today as Dwingeloo-1. The telescope is a national monument in the Netherlands since 2009, recognizing its contributions to radio astronomy.

We felt we should capture the telescope together with its main target of study. The picture was taken on the night of 17-18 July 2021, after Moonset (first quarter). We combined 100x30s images taken with ISO800, to capture faint details of our galaxy. For the foreground telescope image, we used a shorter exposure. Sony A7III on a tripod with Omegon Star Tracker, 24mm f1.4 GM lens.

Fine Art Astrophotography
Gothard Group (Magyarok/Hungarians)

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