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5 panel mosaic of the northern summer Milky Way
2026-07-19
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
This panorama of the summer Milky Way, extending from the tail of Deneb to the stinger of Scorpius was taken with a mirrorless camera (Canon EOS R6 Mark II) and 50 mm lens (Canon RF 50 mm f/1.8) as a set of 5 panels (32×30s frames) taken in southern Wisconsin. The panorama reveals much of the Great Rift, as well as various H II regions and star clouds, primarily concentrated near the Galactic Center and Cygnus. The colors are calibrated against sunlight to better reveal the reddening of the core, idue its older stellar population and the effect of dust extinction. Credit to @cecM of the Siril team for assisting with providing more accurate plate solves and distortion models for my camera and lens combo, as well as reprojecting the data to a more natural Mercator projection.
