Went to Australia in early June for the Venus Transit and some general Milky Way-gazing. Tons of data to process. Here comes something big first.
This is a mosaic of 34 individual images taken with Canon 5D Mark II with 50mm f/1.4 prime lens. Settings for each image are: ISO1600, f/4, 120s exposure. Tracked with Vixen Polarie. Stitched with PTGui, followed by some minor adjustments in Photoshop. The shooting was completed by two nights' efforts due to clouds (yes it does get quite cloudy there sometimes...)
The original image comes to the size of 20000x10000, up to 200MB. Reduced to 5800x1600 for easy web viewing~
There are more works to come, in another thread stay tuned.
Ultra-big-size Milky Way Mosaic
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Ultra-big-size Milky Way Mosaic
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Clear skies please...
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Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
(O_O)"
OCULARHOLIC ANONYMOUS!!!
Keep Calm and Carry on Observing.
Keep Calm and Carry on Observing.
Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
Awesome!!!
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Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
Gigantic effort jiahao!!!. You should make a wall paper out of it and cover walls of your room..
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Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
this is amazzzzzzzzzing!!!
Wee Ern aRmeD wiF Telescope reAdY tO taKe ovEr thE skY .. wIF jUst mY naKed eYEs .
Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
OMG!!! Hats off!
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Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
wow, lost of word
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Truly amazing, Jiahao! Did you also do a mozaic of the whole sky?
Now i feel shy to post my mini-milkyway shot...haha!
Now i feel shy to post my mini-milkyway shot...haha!
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Print and paste on the room ceiling!
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Re: Ultra-big-size Milky Way Moasic
Hi,
WOW!! Amazing moasic!! Milky Way Poster... Photographic Star Chart!
Have a nice day.
WOW!! Amazing moasic!! Milky Way Poster... Photographic Star Chart!
Have a nice day.
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