Milky Way: Centaurus to Vela
This wide angle expanse of the southern Milky Way stretchs across Centaurus, Crux, Carina, and Vela.
upper left), to Crux and the Coal Sack, and on to the red glow of the Eta Carina Nebula, this vista is a stunning piece of celestial real estate.
For more information, see Milky Way in Wikipedia.
Technical Details
- Object: Milky Way: Centaurus to Vela
- Date/Time: 2018 Apr 16 at 013:15 UTC
- Location: Atacama Lodge, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
- Mount: iOptron iEQ30 Pro GEM
- Lens: Nikkor 35mm f/2
- Camera: Nikon D750
- Field of View: 54.3° x 34.8° at 43.3 arc-sec/pixel
- Exposure: 6 x 120s, f/4, ISO 1600
- File Name: CenVel18-01w.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.