Centaurus, Crux and Carina
The naked eye highlight of the Southern Hemisphere night sky is this expanse of the southern Milky Way stretching across Centaurus, Crux, and Carina.
From Alpha & Beta Centaurii (to the left), to Crux and the Coal Sack (center), and on to the red glow of the Eta Carina Nebula (right), this vista is a stunning piece of celestial real estate.
For more information, see Milky Way in Wikipedia.
Technical Details
- Object: Centaurus, Crux and Carina
- Date/Time: 2018 Apr 12 at 03:53 UTC
- Location: Atacama Lodge, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
- Mount: iOptron iEQ30 Pro GEM
- Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
- Camera: Nikon D750
- Field of View: 39.5° x 27.0° at 31.5 arc-sec/pixel
- Exposure: 6 x 120s, f/4, ISO 1600
- File Name: CenCar18-01w.jpg
- Pre-Preprocessing (Starry Sky Stacker): Sub Exposures were Flat-Fielded, Registered and Stacked
- Processing (Adobe Lightroom): White Balance, Curves, Noise Reduction
- Original Image Size: 3977 × 5923 pixels (17.9 MP); 13.3" x 19.4" @ 300 dpi
- Rights: Copyright 2018 by Fred Espenak. All Rights Reserved. See: Image Licensing.