Photography by Steven Sharpe
"Scutum star
cloud"
The summer Milky Way in the
constellation of Scutum. The open cluster Messier 11 is in the
centre. Photographed October, 2014.
Pentax K-3 at ISO 3200, Pentax
SMC-FA 135mm F2.8 lens at F3.5, a stack of 69, 30 second exposures
for a total of 34.5 minutes, piggybacked on an equatorially mounted
Celestron 5 telescope. Processed with Iris and Adobe Photoshop
Elements 11.
Approximate print sizes
available: 5X7, 8X10, 11X14, 13X19.
(C) Copyright 2015 by Steven
Sharpe
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