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Milky Way rises behind Mule Ears Peaks, Big Bend National Park, TX, RichR

Milky Way rises behind Mule Ears Peaks, Big Bend National Park, TX

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Milky Way rises behind Mule Ears Peaks, Big Bend National Park, TX, RichR

Milky Way rises behind Mule Ears Peaks, Big Bend National Park, TX

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This is a composite image, with separate exposures for the sky and foreground. The night sky was exposed for 30" at f/1.4, ISO 1600 with a Sigma 35mm Art lens on a Canon 5DSr. It is only one frame, there was no stacking. Noise reduction was done in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC 2018. The foreground image was captured in blue hour before dawn. That allowed me to use a lower ISO to help with reducing noise and improve resolution. One can expose the landscape using only starlight and airglow, but it requires using a high ISO and very long exposure, the result of which is a grainy foreground with poor resolution.

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Milky Way rises behind Mule Ears Peaks, Big Bend National Park, TX, RichR