The Milky Way Galaxy from Rishi Vatika Gurukulam

On the 20th March 2021, a business associate and myself travelled to the Rishi Vatika Gurukulam for planning the astronomical observatory. After conducting measurements, we decided to setup our modest equipment for astrophotography. In this case the equipment is called a Star Tracker which tracks the stars from East to West during the course of the night and a DSLR can be attached to this tracker to capture long exposures of the night sky, that is the Constellations and Milky Way.

Since it was Summer season and the core of the Milky Way (passing through Scorpious, Saggitarius and all the way to Cygnus) was going to be visible, I decided to capture it using my DSLR. The below photograph is an image captured over a duration of a few hours and shows the core region of our Galaxy as well as the dark dusty interstellar regions.

- Sathyakumar Sharma

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