Pico de la Cruz Milky Way Panorama

Details

In June 2022 I flew again to La Palma to take new pictures of the night sky. The special thing about this trip was that I wanted to try a new imaging technique. The technique is to take the H-Alpha nebula areas (the red spots in the image) with a narrow band filter one by one and then incorporate them later into the normal color image. As you can see I succeeded!

Recording

Camera

Sony a7s astromodified

Lens/telescope

Sigma 40mm f1.4, set to f1.4 during shooting

Tripod/mounting

Rollei c6i / Skywatcher Star adventurer Pro Pack

Filter

Rollei Astroclear Filter + Astronomik 12nm Sony clip in H-Alpha Filter

Exposure

18 pannels for the sky with 4×30 seconds single exposures each (2 minutes total) + H-Alpha exposures for the nebula areas with 15min exposure each

13 pannels for foreground with 60-120 seconds exposure each

Editing

Stacked and calibrated with flats, darks and bias in Astropixelprocessor

Edited with Pixinsight and Photoshop