This is a selfie portrait of me under the Milky Way from my backyard in rural Alberta, on a spring night, May 9/10, 2024. The summer Milky Way and the
This is a selfie portrait of me under the Milky Way from my backyard in rural Alberta, on a spring night, May 9/10, 2024. The summer Milky Way and the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpius (with yellow Antares) lie due south here, but low in the sky at my latitude of 51° N. This shows the Dark Horse well, made of dark dust lanes in the Milky Way. The galactic centre is just above the trees at centre. A meteor is at left below Altair. This is a blend of 2 x 2-minute tracked exposures at ISO 1600 for the sky and 2 x 2-minute untracked exposures at ISO 800 for the ground, with the Venus Optics 15mm lens at on the Canon R6. A single short 30-second exposure at ISO 3200 and f/2 of me blended in, so I didn't have to stand still for two minutes! The tracker was the MSM Nomad. Taken at about 3 am. RC-Astro StarShrink applied to reduce the fainter stars and make the brighter ones stand out more. No diffusion filter was used on the lens.
Size: 5397px × 3579px
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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