Oh those Summer Nights!

 

The Summer Miky Way from summers past and remixed and cropped by Kurt Thrust using Starnet GUI and Affinity Photo. The original data was captured using a tripod mounted 400d Canon DSLR with a standard EFS 18-55mm zoom lens at f=18mm.

"The weather continues 'exceptionally inclement' at the Jodrell Plank Observatory and so, along with polishing our equipment, observatory staff members have been keeping on their 'astro-imaging toes' by reprocessing data captured under past and better conditions. I clearly remember the warm summer night when we collected light from the Milky Way running through the constellation Cygnus. The bright star centre right in the above image is the white super giant Deneb and the bright star top right is the nearby (25 light years distant) Vega. Vega has at least two large planets and a debris disk orbiting it. Vega is spinning so fast that it has a central bulge created by centrifugal force (or as my old physics master Mr. Rawlinson used to say " a lack of centripetal acceleration").- Joel Cairo CEO Jodrell Plank Observatory.