![I spent months capturing one part of the Milky Way to reveal it in extreme depth and detail. This cumulative 140 hour exposure is 337 megapixels, shared here in 4k. No telescope was used, just an ordinary camera lens. [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pqauhk971jff1-1536x864.jpeg "I spent months capturing one part of the Milky Way to reveal it in extreme depth and detail. This cumulative 140 hour exposure is 337 megapixels, shared here in 4k. No telescope was used, just an ordinary camera lens. [OC]")
I spent months capturing one part of the Milky Way to reveal it in extreme depth and detail. This cumulative 140 hour exposure is 337 megapixels, shared here in 4k. No telescope was used, just an ordinary camera lens. [OC]
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This was shot from my backyard in a bortle 6 zone (light pollution index) in Arizona over a period of about 3 months. Each clear night I was able to get a few hours of exposure towards this project, which was a 9-panel mosaic. The 135mm lens I used is wide enough to get a nice chunk of the sky (this mosaic is 25° wide) while still getting nice detail on the nebulae.
What region of the sky are we looking at? Beautiful picture.
Wow this is really incredible! Honestly never seen anything like it.
This is incredible! The hues are gorgeous. The details and the otherworldliness are stunning. what is happening up near the middle top. It looks like two things are coming together or trying to separate – kind of looks like a piggy nose when I zoomed in really close.