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Tschuggen Observatory

Early spring is a great time for astro photography. In the evening, Orion is riding high in the sky and shortly before dawn, the Milky Way core is visible again after its winter break.

 

Of course this means that the night for an astro photographer is very short. I was snowshoeing 40 minutes up a steep hill to shoot this Orion panorama in -20°C (-5°F). I was back in my cozy bed at midnight and was hating myself when the alarm clock rang at 3:30 a.m. and I hiked up the same hill again to shoot the rising MW core.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D, astro modified

Samyang 24mm f/1.4

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Low Level Lighting

nachtlicht° light pollution filter

Foreground:

12 panels of 60s @ ISO 3200

Sky:

10 panel panorama, each a stack of 6 x 30s @ ISO1600, tracked

 

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Uploaded on March 9, 2018
Taken on February 13, 2018