Milky way wide field imaging with a DSLR.
This image was taken with a near full moon. It's a spread of the center of the milky way showing NGC 6523 also known as the Lagoon Nebula(M8) along with NGC 6514 also known as the Trifid Nebula(M20) and also showing very prominently is NGC 6475(M7).
The image is 15.4 X 7.51 Degrees with a Pixel scale of 22.9 arcsec/pixel.
The center of the image is at (RA,DMS) -28⁰ 58' 14.023"
Image was taken on a static tripod and a Canon 1200D(no mods).
ISO 1600
102 X 5 second light frames.
18 X 5 second dark frames.
The lens used was a 75-300 mm set at 75mm.
I attempted to capture Saturn in the image but due to the amount of light frames it moved out of the field of view and I had to crop it from the stacked image. It was sitting on the border of the image where the frames start to overlap.
All frames stacked in DSS(deep sky stacker) and processed in Star tools and downsized for the web in photoshop.
So here it is,
There is a rather crowded annotated image if you like.
So that was the fun from my acre of Africa. until next time friends...
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