If you go really deep, the only way to advance is to go even
deeper. This is apparently a trend in astro-photography and the latest
image from Paolo Moroni clearly demonstrates it. Capturing the Great
Orion nebula or the Horse-head dark silhouette is no longer enough
regardless of details in the image. Astro-photographers want to show
that also areas, simply considered dark in the not so distant past, are
in fact also filled with inter-stellar gas clouds, only much
darker.
Paolo needed more than 24 hours of
accumulated exposure time to acquire this image. The G2-8300 camera
was used on SW ED80 refractor with 0.85×
focal reducer and also on 200 mm Canon
telephoto lens. Individual exposures were taken through luminance, RGB
and Hα filters.
