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Peaceful Night with The Southern Clouds - Panorama, Gabriel R. Santos (grsotnas)

Peaceful Night with The Southern Clouds - Panorama

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Peaceful Night with The Southern Clouds - Panorama, Gabriel R. Santos (grsotnas)

Peaceful Night with The Southern Clouds - Panorama

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This images potrays a crystal clear night, with some nearby trees of my imaging site, in the rural area. Part of the landscape can be seen. The most notable objects in the panorama are the Magellanic Clouds, visible near the center, behind the tree. They're galaxies that can be seen the naked eye pretty easily from a moderately dark to dark skies, and do indeed look like small clouds, a bit brighter than the sky background. From this site, they're easily recognizable, even with the eyes not completely dark adapted. In binoculars they show detailed and very beautiful structure, packed with clusters and nebulae.

The image was shot on a fixed tripod, with a wide angle lens, in the vertical orientation. The 3 images were then loaded and pre-processed in LR, merged as a panorama automatically in the same software, with the "Spherical" projection. Minor tweaks with curves were added in PS. As every extremely wide panorama, this image present a bit of distortion, due to the selected projection, which can be seen in the extreme upper edge fo the frame. After all, the landscape surprised me, and I really liked this composition. Comments and Contructive Criticism, as well as questions will be more than welcome, in the Comments section.

Taken from Rural skies (Bortle 3-4), in a peaceful night, just before dawn, about 4 a.m., in Cristtna, MG, Brazil. Thanks for seeing.

Date and Time: July 28th, 2015, at 4:32 AM.

Camera: Unmodded Canon T5/1200D at ISO 6400

Lens: Canon 18-135mm STM, set at 18mm, wide open at f/3.5

Exposure Detail: 3 Shots Panorama on a Fixed Tripod, each 30s

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