Milky Way Above Chiricahua Mtns - 1
The summer Milky Way rises high in the sky at midnight during June and July. It passes through some of the brighter summer constellations including Scorpius, Sagittarius, Aquila, and Cygnus.In the foreground are the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona.
Technical Details
- Object: Milky Way Above Chiricahua Mtns - 1
- Date/Time: 2012 Jun 16 at 07:30 UTC
- Location: Bifrost Astronomical Observatory, Portal, AZ
- Mount: Losmandy G-11 German Equatorial Mount
- Lens: Nikkor AI 16mm f/2.8 (full frame fisheye)
- Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i)
- Exposure: 2 x 240s, f/2.8, ISO 800
- File Name: MilkyWay12-506w.jpg
- Processing (Adobe Camera Raw): Vignetting Correction, Noise Reduction, White Balance, Curves
- Processing (Photoshop CS5): Average Images, Curves
- Original Image Size: 3454 × 5179 pixels (17.9 MP); 11.5" x 17.3" @ 300 dpi
- Rights: Copyright 2012 by Fred Espenak. All Rights Reserved. See: Image Licensing.
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