Milky Way: Scorpius to Centaurus
This wide angle expanse of the southern Milky Way stretchs across Scorpius, Lupus, Norma, and Centaurus.
For more information, see Milky Way in Wikipedia.
Technical Details
- Object: Milky Way: Scorpius to Centaurus
- Date/Time: 2018 Apr 15 at 07:19 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: 8 x 120s, f/4, ISO 1600
- File Name: ScoCen18-01w.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.