Scorpius & Milky Way in Summer


Date & Time: May 3 2003, from 25:58 to 26:03 JST(+0900)
Composed 2 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: AF zoom Nikkor f=24-85mm, f=24mm, Aperture: F2.8
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S2Pro
Location: Kita-Ibaraki city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...12bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3024 x 2016)
CCD Sensitivity...ISO800, White Balance...Auto




This Milky Way image has been taken with a SLR digital camera. It was bad transparency condition so stars in lower sky are inconspicuous, but you can appreciate dark lane stretching from Antares to the Milky Way.




Vega & Altair on Mt. Fuji

Summer's Milky Way taken with whole-sky camera


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