Part 2 Sceneries in dark night
Aiming at the Milky Way


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Date & Time: May 4 2022, 25:47 JST(+0900), 1min. exposed
Optical: SIGMA 15mm EX Fish-eye, stop: F4.0
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



I took this snap on a midnight of early May when the summer Milky Way had the meridian transit. In that night, I was taking star-field images with equatorial mounts; all cameras had aimed at the Milky Way in lower southern skies.




Arcturus in the evening sky

Rising Orion over Pacific ocea


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