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Vertical Milky Way over the AAT

Vertical Milky Way over the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Image obtained on 30th June 2016 at 22:04 AEST (14:04 UTC) using a CANON 5D Mark III with a 14mm f2.8 wide lens. Single 30 seconds exposure at 3200 ISO. Besides the conversion from RAW to JPEG, no further image process was applied. The famous dark constellation “Emu in the Sky” seen by Australian Aboriginals, planets Mars and Saturn, bright star Antares in Scorpio, and nebulae such as Carina, Lagoon, and Trifid, are easily recognized in the image.

More info and high resolution images:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelrls/27722628870

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO/MQU)

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My new camera for astrophotography

Milky Way sets over Siding Spring Observatory

I finally got it!

This is the “first light” of my new CANON 5D Mark III DSLR camera!

This image combines 5 x 15 seconds frames, using a Tamrom 24 mm lens at f/2.8. The Milky Way setting over the trees at Siding Spring Observatory, on 8 September 2015.

Full resolution on my Flickr

Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (MQ-AAO)