Dark dust clouds divide band of Milky Way in constellation of Cygnus (Northern Cross).
Below and slightly to the left to the brightest star of the constellation -- Deneb -- one can see an emission nebula “North America”, the shape of it closely resembles that of Earth continent.
An image is an average of 72 frames (12s each) taken by Canon EOS 600D (on tripod) with EF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II lens.
I emphasised bright stars of the constellation (they were processed separately and overlayed on the main image):
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, FITStacker, RawTherapee, GIMP.
The pictures above were captured from a bank of Nebrezh lake (Osokorky district, Kyiv):
Below and slightly to the left to the brightest star of the constellation -- Deneb -- one can see an emission nebula “North America”, the shape of it closely resembles that of Earth continent.
An image is an average of 72 frames (12s each) taken by Canon EOS 600D (on tripod) with EF-S 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II lens.
I emphasised bright stars of the constellation (they were processed separately and overlayed on the main image):
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, FITStacker, RawTherapee, GIMP.
The pictures above were captured from a bank of Nebrezh lake (Osokorky district, Kyiv):
**** UPDATED 27-08-2015 ****
The same picture, other treatment. This image is not cropped, you can see big distortions at the angles (probably because of a "field rotation"). Nevertheless Milky Way's dark nebulas are better seen in this image:
By nova.astrometry.net (size 65.6 x 40.7 deg):
The same picture, other treatment. This image is not cropped, you can see big distortions at the angles (probably because of a "field rotation"). Nevertheless Milky Way's dark nebulas are better seen in this image:
By nova.astrometry.net (size 65.6 x 40.7 deg):
