Winter Milky Way Wide-field Pictures: Astronomy Photos by Dick Locke
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Winter Milky Way # 1 with Labels

This image features a section of the winter milky way, and goes from Orion on the left/lower to part of Auriga on the lower right. It has ~130,000 stars per Registar. It's an imperfect but serviceable mosaic/combination of this image Orion: Wide-field Nebulosity Galore (2007), along with a separate picture of the area close to Auriga. Scroll down and check out the links to specific objects of interest. Below: A more artistic version; no labels.

Winter Milky Way #1

The large circular red area on top is Sh2-264. This picture shows a major star-forming area of the sky, with the red color coming from glowing clouds of hydrogen gas. Photo Details (above): Orion area (the left part = 64 minutes total exposure time. Auriga area (to the right) 44 total minutes. I calibrated the images in Registar but it's not perfect as you can see. Gives me something to come back to one day...

3/15/2007 from the Davis Mountains, TX, USA. Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), with Nikon 28mm f2.8 AIS lens operating at f4, Losmandy G-11 mount. My current image processing workflow is here.

Below: Close-ups of some winter milky way objects.