Milky Way Panorama (JDJ)

Milky Way Panorama

Imaged the Milky Way from the beach at Assateague Island State Park in eastern Maryland on the night of September 17th, 2022. This image is a two panel panorama taken from the beach starting just above the skyglow from the campsites.

Imaged using a Nikon D5300 (full spectrum modified), IDAS HEUIB-II (H-α Enhanced UV IR Blocking) filter, and 14 mm Rokinon lens at F/2.8. Exposures were 20 seconds at ISO-3200.

Pre/post-processing in PixInsight. For each of two sub images, registered and stacked using StarAlignment and Integration processes, cropped, and perfomed gradient removal with ABE. Combined two sub images using gradient merge mosaic process. Additional post-processing included noise reduction using MLT, scnr process to remove green hue, masked stretch, curves transformation, local histogram transformation, and morphological transformation to reduce start sizes.

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Description: First sub of 2 panel mosaic

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Description: Second sub of 2 panel mosaic

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Cloudy Nights
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	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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