Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Storms under Ursa Major, Brent Newton
Storms under Ursa Major
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Storms under Ursa Major

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Storms under Ursa Major

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We have had a series of storms the past few days, a rarity in October. Usually any moisture in October is a cold drizzle under overcast skies, but these storms have been surprisingly active. This one passed North of Wichita, so being unable to capture lightning closeups, I opted for a wider field to capture the stars above it.

I took several captures, aligned them manually (DSS was giving me memory issues) for stars, then aligned a seperate stack and had PS auto-align to the foreground for the storms, set it to Lighten, and then combined the Foreground / Storms with the background Sky. A single exposure was also blended in to reduce some of the flora blurring.

Processing involved little more than some Curves for contrast, white balance, and slight star reduction

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Storms under Ursa Major, Brent Newton

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