Milky Way - the Galaxy

Witnessing the Aurora is life changing experience. This phenomena changed life of Adrien Mauduit who is the Man behind this photograph. In Cosmonity we believe that everybody has to see Northern Lights at least once in a lifetime, that's why we ask Adrien about share some of his outstanding photographs to prepare collections of prints to share his passion and beauty of the Aurora. Adrien is not only Aurora  photographer, he is also one of the best landscape astrophotographer. This is one of his Milky Way photograph taken under dark sky of La Palma. Below here is original comment by Adrien to this image, because its creation was extremely complex task.

"UHD panorama of the Milky Way over La Palma 🤩

It's here! I had been waiting a whole year to realize and complete this project I had in mind for some time. I was trying to find ways to produce an extremely detailed and colorful picture of the milky way. As I have done many 50mm panorama in the past, I wanted to try something even more challenging and crazier, so I decided to not use an 85mm but go all the way to 135mm. Since the Samyang 135mm f2 is one of the best lenses for astrophotography, I used it with my astromoded 6D and headed to La Palma island (Bortle 1-2) to get this pano. But this wasn't a piece of cake. Out of the 10 days I was there, only a few had no calima, this haze coming from the Sahara desert. On the shooting night, it wasn't a done deal either as I had to battle with the wind during my multiple one-minute exposures! Then, I had no guiding so I shot the 73 pictures just using the view finder and hoping I got enough overlap! After 2 hours of integration, some calibration frame and hours of post-processing (the milky way moves so fast at 135mm so foreground and background are so hard to blend!), I am so excited and proud to unveil the result, which I am SO happy about.

Pano of 73 shots, Canon 6D modded + Samyang 135 mm f2 + Star adventurer Pro tracker + Kase LP filter. Foreground is untracked, background is tracked.

Sky: 56 x 1 minute at ISO 3200, f2.8 + calibration frames
Foreground: 17 x 1 minute at ISO 6400, f2, no LP filter
The same gear and tripod position were used, the shots were taken back to back. The sky was blended as it was with the foreground as I started shooting the pano.
Stitched in PtGui Pro, Edited in Lr and Ps (Star reduction)."

Higher prices of prints in this collection are dictated by the will of their creator. Taking such photos is connected with very demanding work. Therefore, by purchasing Adrien's print on Cosmonity, you are supporting his work.

• Excellent print quality with the Canon imagePROGRAF Pro4100 12 color inkjet printer for maximum sharpness and color reproduction,
• High UV resistance and long colour fastness,
• Professional Solution photo paper that guarantees high-contrast images and deep blacks and provides excellent tone transitions. You can choose between smooth satin paper weighing 240 g/m2 (Poster) and matte, microporous paper weighing 290 g/m2 (Fine Art),
• Canvas prints are printed on 360 g/m2 cotton-synthetic canvas, to the delivery destinations to Europe we send to you a framed canvas on wooden frame- ready for your wall. For orders beyond Europe we ship canvas prints as rolled canvas in transport tube.
• Environmentally friendly product – we use water-based inks from LUCIA PRO,
• Delivery of the prints (Fine Art and Poster prints) in a reusable, safe cardboard tube. At every stage of the development of our products, we strive to remain environmentally conscious, by using as little plastic as possible and minimising the amount of waste generated.

Our print is the perfect work of art for your interior or a gift for aviation geek. Find out more about our prints below - Fine Art, Poster and Canvas.

Product visualizations are just an example of the arrangement of our prints in interiors. Printouts (Fine Art and Poster prints) are delivered in the form of sheets rolled into a transport tube without a frame.