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Dark side of the Milky Way

Started Feb 6, 2020 | Discussions thread
zero214
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Re: Dark side of the Milky Way

Marco Nero wrote:

EF-M32mm @ 3.2, 67x30s, ISO 1600

As an Australian, I recognized the Southern Cross immediately. And the coal-sack nebula (the dark patch to the left). You appear to be located in Vietnam.. does the this region of the Milky Way show up higher in the sky for you there?.
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Yes it is the Southern Part, this part of Milky Way peak the most at Altitude of +15, which is a little higher than the horizon, you could see the light polluion glow from the nearby city below.

The crimson hue in the Carina Nebula is normally not that visible (saturated) without modifying the sensor (on a Canon Mirrorless camera). But the colors are indeed visible, even with the tungsten WB (if used). It's interesting that the 32mm lens is more likely to pick up on this over lenses like the 11-22mm which, whilst less sensitive (presumably due to the aperture), is unable to produce much color.
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With the EOS M6, I tend to use around ISO 1600, 2000 and 2500 as there's very little noise for me to deal with - yet I get quite an improvement on sensitivity. The M6 II obviously has its own rules. Great shot. Nothing beats a nice image of the night sky!
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I tend to take singular exposures without a tracking mount... but your image details suggest you've stacked 67x 30 second frames together to produce this image. Is that correct?

The noise from M6 II at 1600 is so great that when I saw the histogram at such a short sub-exposure (usually I have to exposure 1 min per sub for M6 to suppress read noise), i got confused as compared to my old M6 (in which the noise swamp the H-alpha signal, as I had struggle to capture the outer rim of Milky Way near Orion).

From my initial observation, Canon does indeed improve the sensitivitive a lot on M6 II, especially the H-alpha sensitivitive. One more thing, with the M6 mk II, the annoying bug of having half-pressing shutter before full-pressing for exposure in Manual mode is gone which is helpful. I need to test more subjects, I have a feeling there is some raw filtering in M6 II raw file, but so far so good compare to old M6.

PS: here's a link to the OOC jpg and raw file for you to have a look Marco (I use faithful picture style for night photography)

Raw: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eui9VjEOgWg1-QPguN9--w5QgOUUyNnC/view?usp=sharing

JPG: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCijtMbx9KUNpCLqH45PspAGOqJsuBAj/view?usp=sharing

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