Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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OBX Nightscape #1 - Big Dipper over the Beach, JDJ
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OBX Nightscape #1 - Big Dipper over the Beach

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This is the first in a series of nightscape images taken during a trip to Corolla in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina on August 8, 2022.  This image is taken from the beach facing to the north along the coast.   The image features the Big Dipper is rising over the sand dunes separating the beach house community from the beach and ocean.  There was a near full moon during my week at the beach this year, to no Milky Way shots this time around...

Imaged with a Nikon D750 and 28-300 mm Nikon zoom lens at 28 mm focal length and F/3.5. Exposures were 0.77, 3, and 13 seconds at ISO-800.

Generated HDR image from 3 sub images using easyHDR.  Further processing using Sequator (composition = auto brightness=ON, HDR=ON, LP reduction = ON/uneven (intelligently agressive=OFF), enhance starlight=ON).  Final processing using Pixinsight: Stretched using histogram transformation, curves transformation, and HDR multiscale transformation.

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OBX Nightscape #1 - Big Dipper over the Beach, JDJ