Milky way At 16mm
Here is an image made form some data shot with the Canon 500D. Since I failed to get flats or even darks when I shot this, I had not tried doing anything with the data until now. But I finally decided to see just what I could get out of just aligning, stacking, and then post processing in PI and Lightroom to see what I could get out of it. While I would like to go back to this sort of shot in the future when I can gather a more complete data set, I am still pleasantly surprised by how this came out, and since it is definitely my best Milky Way image so far, I decided to post it here. The center of the image shows a very small North America Nebula, NGC7000, captured in much larger fashion with a true telescope also on this same trip.
Equipment:
Canon 500D (T2i)
Software Bisque MyT Mount
Canon 16-35 f/4 L IS, @ f/4, 16mm
Software:
Pixinsight Commercial Version 1.8
Lightroom 4.3
Photoshop CS2
Light Frames:
4 x 180 secs (12 mins)
6 x 240 secs (24 mins)