#Milky way stacking software full#
#Milky way stacking software professional#

So when you look at this image, you look 27000 years into the past! With our own eyes, the Milky Way looks nowhere near as detailed or colorful as the above picture. We will have to wait 27000 light years for that. The current state of milkyway is not known because of the time taken by the light to travel. At its heart and the dominant force in that area of the galaxy is a 1 million-solar-mass black hole named Sagittarius A which is responsible for the emission of the light due to accelerating the motion of the matter around it. In the above image I clicked, the center of the Milky Way (the core) is seen along with the interstellar gas and dust that is blocking the light.

#Milky way stacking software full#

To take the full image of the milkyway galaxy, the camera has to be placed far away which is beyond the reach of current technology. The milkyway galaxy is 100 light years thick. It is shaped like a spiral, with arms stretching out from its core, but from Earth appears only as a band of cloudy light to the naked eye. The Milky Way galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, including our own Sun. It is not possible to shoot in the presence of moon as well due to the moonlight. Rural place, away from the city lights is the ideal place to shoot. Dark sky where the light pollution is very less is important in order to do astro-photography.

#Milky way stacking software professional#

With respect to the gear, to start off with shooting milkyway core, any entry level professional camera is sufficient. Equipments used : Sony α6000 with kit lens of 16mm focal length, Tripod.,Īstro-photography is an art that is dependent mostly on the aspects which are not controlled by the artist himself such as weather, light pollution and air pollution. The blurry parts of the image are due to the clouds registered while clicking the images and later stacking. The images were stacked using DeepSkyStacker and post processed using Adobe Photoshop.

I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.' ~ William Herschel Milkyway galactic core: This image is a stack of 40 JPEG images shot under the dark skies of rural south Karnataka. 'I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me.