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Sta.sh
how did you do this i have ben trying but it never comes out right
which lens and camera did you use?
Being an astrophotographer (and, astronerd in general), I had to comment.
Sylvain is right, the two brightest smears are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
The bright star towards centre-left, at 144 light years distant, is Achernar (Alpha Eridani) which is one of the three brightest stars in the sky, along with Sirius in Orion and Canopus in Carina.
Just above the Small Magellanic Cloud is a golden dot. This golden dot is in actual fact Tucana 47 (NGC 104) which is the second brightest and second biggest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri (NGC 2509). This cluster contains several million stars and is coming towards us at about 19 km/s.
Good choice on the 30 second exposure, as, at 17mm, anything longer than about 40 seconds would have induced trailing. The trailing would have been most evident on the left edge of the composition. The reason behind this is because the stars appear to revolve around the South Celestial Pole. The SCP can be found by drawing an imaginary line from Achernar to the Small Magellanic Cloud, and then continue drawing the line about the same distance.
Well done on a beautiful image.
Regards,
H
P.S. I enjoy your posts on DP Review in the 1D/5D forum.