Panorama of the Milky Way

A photo composite of multiple exposures. From the photographer: “The center of the Milky Way is by far the most interesting, diversified, and photogenic region of the night sky as seen from planet Earth. You can find huge dark dust lanes, star clusters, colorful nebulae, and famous constellations like Sagittarius and Scorpius. As a photographer with a huge interest in the technical part of photography and tending to more complex panorama work – it’s a great joy to work with longer focal lengths and a star tracker on such a region in the night sky. In this case 85mm f/1.8. The peak night of the Perseid Meteor Shower 2020 – August 12th/13th – was a good moment to go down the rabbit hole of such an exhausting photography project. My goal was to get a colorful and contrasty panorama of the Center of the Milky Way where the focus is more on the Galaxy than the landscape itself.

If you are interested in a more detail insight of that process, feel free to check my latest Photography Documentary about Astrophotography at the Teide National Park in Tenerife including a Photo Series of tracked Milky Way Panos and lots of behind-the-scenes texts and impressions Here.”

Technical details: Panorama / Tracked – 20 Frames, Nikon D800a + Nikon AF-S 85mm f/1.8

& Vixen Polarie Star Tracker, ISO800 – f/4 – 180s ⠀