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Milky Way core - Matterdale Forest dark skies


Chris P.

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Milky Way core - Matterdale Forest

Hi everyone - Catching the last of the mily way core this season. 15 x 15sec exposures at 17mm\12800 ISO with my Canon EOS R. Stacked in starry landscape stacker for Mac; processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop. Hope you like it

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Very nice. What i difference a dark sky makes.

 

Regarding the 'core'   : i thought that part was only visible from much lower latitudes ? 🤔

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59 minutes ago, Bino-viewer said:

Very nice. What i difference a dark sky makes.

 

Regarding the 'core'   : i thought that part was only visible from much lower latitudes ? 🤔

Hi Rob - got thi from the  Photopills app website:

 

 If you live in latitudes above +55º, you won't be able to see the Galactic Center. You'll be able to see only part of the Core of the Milky Way. 

 

I was at 54 degrees at Troutbeck. Argueably the galactic centre is so close to the horizon as to not be easily visible but the rest is still referred to as the core i.e the bar at the centre of the galaxy as opposed to the spiral arm that forms our winter milky way

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