Saturn & Dark Horse
Taken by project nightflight on June 19, 2017 @
La Palma, Spain
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Date Taken: 2017:08:08 20:23:33
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In June 2017 the famous dark nebula near the Milky Way's center had a rider. In the image, the bright planet Saturn is seen horseback-riding on the nape of the neck of the silhouetted horse. It was shot in June 2017, when Saturn passed through Ophiuchus. The prancing horse can only be seen from very dark places - any amount of light pollution or moonlight will obscure this large region of dust. Haze or other moisture in the atmosphere will also prevent it from being visible to the human eye.
The scene was photographed in the mountains of La Palma island with a DSLR and a 50mm lens without using any type of tracking device. Instead, we used a special technique we developed for untracked astrophotography. The idea is to shoot a lot of similar exposures at very high ISO ratings and keep the single exposures so short that no tracking is needed. In a stacking program the individual frames are digitally combined to create a final noise-free picture. Here is the link to a complete PDF tutorial on the technique:
http://www.project-nightflight.net/tests.html?28
Photographer's website:
http://www.project-nightflight.net
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