Steaming Teapot

[Adhika Lie]

Not sure if there is any interest about this type of photography here.

Sagittarius is definitely one of the more interesting part of the milky way with the many nebulas in the vicinity. In addition to the asterism, also visible are the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas and the M6 and M7 clusters.

[Don Lacy]

I really enjoy these type of images and find the colors and composition appealing here.

[Don Railton]

I like this a lot Adhika... Lots of fine detail and colour..

[Adhika Lie]

Thanks Don & Don. Camera these days can do a lot even with single exposure :)

[Morkel Erasmus]

I like it too - please do post more, but do include specifics about how you set about capturing these photos? Gear, settings, special techniques?

[Adhika Lie]

Thanks, Morkel!

Forgot to include the shooting specs.

70mm f/4 ISO 1600 equivalent shutter speed of 1 minute with 10 darks and 40 flats; no biases were used. Temperature was pretty low during the capture and the dark current suppression in the D750 is pretty good but I was using my 70-200/4 and that lens is notorious for the light fall-off. The lights were registered and aligned on Nebulosity. Light pollution subtraction and raw file stretching were done on Affinity Photo. Final output sharpening using Nik Output Sharpener on High-pass mode.