![Cool! Astrophotographer Combines Fish-Eye Views of Milky Way for Stunning View](http://www.space.com/images/i/000/053/949/original/MatthewMoses-Aurora.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=inside%7C660:*)
The circular panorama was taken by astrophotographer Manish Mamtani on March 8, 2016 from Gloucester, MA.
Credit: Manish Mamtani
A yellow glow and purple Milky Way surrounds the Eastern Point Lighthouse in Maine.
The circular panorama was taken by astrophotographer Manish Mamtani on March 8 from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
“It was a peaceful, beautiful clear night and I had the whole place to myself,” Mamtani wrote. [How to Photograph the Milky Way in Light Pollution (Photos) ]
The Milky Way , our own galaxy containing the solar system, is a barred spiral galaxy with roughly 400 billion stars. The stars, along with gas and dust, appear like a band of light in the sky when seen from Earth. The galaxy stretches between 100,000 to 120,000 light-years in diameter.
![The Milky Way Galaxy is organized into spiral arms of giant stars that illuminate interstellar gas and dust. The sun is in a finger called the Orion Spur.](http://www.space.com/images/i/000/014/939/i235/nasa-ibex-milky-way.jpg?1328034080?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around%7C*:156&crop=*:156;*,*)
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This image was created by merging four separate fish eye images looking in different directions. Mamtani uses a Canon 5d Mkiii camera with a Canon 8-15mm fish eye at 8mm, F4, iso 4000 for 30 seconds.
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