Winter Milkyway obscured by Zodiacal Light

[mftoet]

Exposure time: 1 hour, 15 minutes (5 min. sub-exposures, no intervals)
Lens: Canon EF 24 - 70 mm f/2.8 L USM at 24 mm f/5.6
Camera: Baader modified Canon 5D Mark II (1600 ISO, RAW acquisition)
Mount: Vixen Photoguider on Berlebach Report 7033 tripod
Guiding: - (sidereal tracking)
Location: Roque de Los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain
Date: February 19 - 20, 2012
Notes: No calibration frames (flats, darks). Aligned in RegiStar. Combined in Nebulosity (SD stack 1.25). Post-processed in Photoshop CS4.

www.dutchdeepsky.com/wintermilkyway_120219.html

[Dave Smith]

It must be quite something for the Zodiacal light to become a nuisance. I've only seen it once and that was from the Australian outback.

Dave

[Sand Dune]

A simply beautiful picture - I just found the hi-res version on your website - superb
I've just bought the Teleskop Services 65mm astrograph and I'm looking forward to some widefield work - this is an inspiration.
David

[DaveS]

My goodness, that's different Maurice.

Very nice indeed

Dave

[mftoet]

My first thought was that my images were useless because of clouds or gradients. A closer look revealed the zodiacal light. It is indeed "natural" light pollution at a dark site.

[srchadwi]

Stunning!

I've been imaging a few wide shots of the milky way south of Orion so it's great to see all the stuff I haven't done to the north of Orion.

Steve

[prokyon]

Wow, that`s an extraordinary widefield, superb!!!