6740 x 12000 px | 57,1 x 101,6 cm | 22,5 x 40 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
12 octobre 2023
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This is the northern hemisphere autumn Milky Way from Auriga (at bottom) to Cygnus (at top, at the zenith) rising into the northeast over the hoodoo formations of Inspiration Point, at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. The W of Cassiopeia is at centre; Perseus is below it; while above the W are the stars and red nebulas of Cepheus and Cygnus. Jupiter is rising at lower right. At right of centre is the Andromeda Galaxy. This was October 12, 2023. Green and red airglow tints the sky toward the horizon. The lights in the distance are from cars and hikers at Sunset Point. The blue glow on the horizon at left is from Bryce Canyon City. This is a blend of untracked (for the ground) and tracked (for the sky) exposures: a stack of 4 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 800 for the ground, blended with a vertical panorama of 6 segments, each a stack of 2 x 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600 for the sky, all with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 25mm and f/2.8, and on the modified red-sensitive Canon Ra. I used the Star Adventurer Mini tracker, turning on its tracking motor for the sky images after taking the ground images with the motor off. The ground images were taken under a dark starlit sky just before the Milky Way images were shot; they are not blue hour or sunset lighting images. A mild Orton glow added with Luminar Neo.
