A 270° nightscape panorama of the Milky Way from Carina (at right) to Scutum (at left) arching over the paddock next to the Tibuc Gardens Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, on April 12, 2016. The Dark Emu is visible in its entirety, from the head in Crux at right to his feet in Scutum at left. Scorpius with Mars and Saturn are at top left. Some green airglow tints the horizon. The ground is illuminated only by starlight. This is a stitch of 6 panels, each 2.5-minute exposures, all tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker, with the 15mm full-frame fish eye lens (in portrait orientation) at f/2.8 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. The sky is not trailed but the tracking has blurred the ground slightly. Stitched in PTGui software with fish-eye projection.
NGC 55, the large edge on galaxy on Sculptor-Phoenix border, in a shot with a 135mm telephoto lens to simulate the field with binoculars. This is a stack of 5 x 4 minute exposures at ISO 800 and f/2.8 with Canon 5D MkII. Taken from Coonabarabran, Australia, December 16, 2012.
NGC 55 is a large edge-on barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor and visible in binoculars. This is a stack of 5 x 12 minute exposures at f/5.8 with the Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm apo refractor telescope and Canon 5D Mark II camera at ISO 800. Autoguided on the AP 400 mount, and taken from Coonabarabran, Australia, December 2012.
