Comet Linear and Milky Way
Taken by Alan Dyer on April 2, 2016 @
Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure Time: 180/1
Aperture: f/2.2
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2016:04:03 12:13:34
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This was the view from Australia on April 2, 2016 of Mars, Saturn and Comet Linear (at lower left above the trees) as Scorpius and the centre of the Galaxy area rose into the east.
Mars is the brightest object left of Antares in Scorpius, with fainter Saturn below the reddish pairing of Mars and its rival Antares. The cyan-colored blob at lower left above the trees is Comet Linear/252P, which passed close to Earth the previous month. Many nebulas and clusters are visible along the Milky Way around the Galactic Centre in Sagittarius, which is rising here.
This is a stack of 5 x 3-minute exposures with the camera on the iOtron SkyTracker, all at f/2.2 with the 35mm L-Series Canon lens and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. The ground comes from one other exposure taken imediately after the tracked exposures but with the tracker motor off, and exposed for 8 minutes at f/3.2 and at ISO 640 for lower noise in the sharp, brightly exposed foreground.
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.net
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