Summer Milky Way & Constellations


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Date & Time: May 4 2022, from 27:00 to 27:21 JST(+0900)
Composed 18 shots with 1 minute exposed
Optical: SIGMA 15mm EX Fish-eye, stop: F4.5
Auto-guided with EYEBELL CD-1 portable Equatorial
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Koumi town, Nagano pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(7360×4912)
Device Size...FX format (36×24mm)
Sensitivity...ISO1600, White Balance...Daylight



This image shows you the summer Milky Way flowing from the zenith toward the southern lower skies, passing from the Cygnus to the Sagittarius. The Milky Way around the Sagittarius corresponds to the center of Gakaxy, the widest and brightest region in the heavens. Also the complicated dark lanes have evolved, uncountable interesting objects are distributed.




Milky Way Patchwork

Aquila to Sagittarius


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