Southern Milkyway
With Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein
with Sigma 8mm Fish Eye Lens

 

            
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 This
            is the deepest shot of the elusive zodiacal band I have taken
            yet. In this all sky view, the band cutting diagonally across
            the frame is dust in the plane of the Solar System, with the
            bright patch in the band near the top in Capricorn the counter
            glow - or Gegenschein. Off to the right you can see the LMC and
            SMC rising, which can here be directly compared with the much
            smaller Andromeda Galaxy on the left edge of this image. The
            sky was quite dark here, measuring 21.6 on the SQM meter in the
            gap between the band and LMC.
Lens:  Sigma 8mm f/3.5 fish eye at f/5
Platform:  Robotic Barndoor II
Camera:  Hutech Modified Canon XTi @ ISO800
Exposure:  10m
Filters:  None
Location:  Winton, QLD, Australia
Elevation:  260 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  8/10, Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  60F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2, Maxim DSLR
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