Ultra-big-size Milky Way Mosaic

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Ultra-big-size Milky Way Mosaic

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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~

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There are more works to come, in another thread stay tuned.
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Awesome!!!
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Gigantic effort jiahao!!!. You should make a wall paper out of it and cover walls of your room..
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this is amazzzzzzzzzing!!!
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OMG!!! Hats off! [smilie=cute.gif]
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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!
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Print and paste on the room ceiling!
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Hi,
WOW!! [smilie=good-job.gif] [smilie=good-job.gif] Amazing moasic!! Milky Way Poster... Photographic Star Chart! [smilie=admire.gif]

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