Southern Milky Way from Scutum to Carina (Rodney Watters)

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Southern Milky Way from Scutum to Carina

Presenting a wide field view of the southern Milky Way extending from the constellation of Scutum on the left (north east) to Carina (south west) of the image. Data was captured at the Astronomical Society of NSW, Australia (ASNSW) dark sky site located at Illford in NSW, approximately 3 hours drive west of Sydney. Rated at Bortle 2 skies, it is an ideal site for observing and imaging the southern Milky Way.

This image is a two panel panorama taken with a Canon 60Da and Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens mounted on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. Each panel in the panorama has been processed from 10 x 180 second sub frames and 10 darks. Software used to process the image was Pixinsight 1.8.9 for calibration, integration and post processing and PTGui for stitching the panels together. Whilst Pixinsight has some excellent mosaic tools such as Mosaic by Coordinates and Photometric Mosaic, these tools struggled with such a wide field as this. To assemble the panels, a basic processing was applied in Pixinsight to normalise the panels and then transferred to PTGui to assemble into the panorama. With the application of suitable control points in PTGui, the assembly into the final panorama was straight forward. Following the stitching together of the panels in PTGui, final post processing was completed in Pixinsight.

Revision B (and the mouse over) shows an annotated image with the names of the major deep sky objects that can be seen across the plane of the Milky Way.

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Description: Annotated image including the names of major deep sky objects across the plane of the Milky Way.

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