Milkyway over the Egyptian Desert in RGBHa (Ahmed Waddah)

Milkyway over the Egyptian Desert in RGBHa

Glad to be back processing my data after suffering a lower back injury I hope I recover from before mid July

and towards clear skies as June was a disaster!

Anyway I finally got to shoot the milkyway wide in both RGB and Ha using a dual camera setup using my stock Nikon Z6II for RGB and my modified Z6II for Ha using a clip-in 12nm Ha Astronomik filter and using 2 Nikon S line 14-24mm, one mine and one borrowed from my kind friend @Hossam Elhawary thanks man

I had taken 3 series that night and ended up using one of the series, the purpose was getting the Ha in Sharpless 2-27 in Ophiuchus as well as lagoon, Trifid, cat paws and Lobster nebula. So I selectively added Ha to those regions as adding ha to the whole Galactic Core was over saturated and didn't look appealing. Also unfortunately blue horse head turned up super faint, should have used Lpro for RGB data but that meant using my D810 or D850 and in the end its a wide milky way image so it shouldn't be complicated. I wish Optolong would have made a clip-in for L-pro Z Nikon cams then this would have been all unnecessary

. As I dont think I would do this again, maybe next year or something!

Since it was a troublesome sky image to deliver I decided to add a foregroung to complement the work in the Sky.

Image is a composite where sky was taken mid may and foreground was taken a month after, foreground is roughly positioned as close as possible to Milkyway would have risen as foreground was shot same night as in https://www.astrobin.com/6jlhr4/ but closer to the far rocks and using stellarium mobile app onsite for visual confirmation. Image was taken at Al Monfareda Rock in Al Fayoum Desert in Egypt.

Milkyway over Al Monfareda Rock

Sky: Nikon Z6II (Stock) - Nikkor Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S
30x180" - f/2.8 - @24mm - ISO 1000
Sky Ha: Nikon Z6II (Ha Modified) - Nikkor Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S - 12nm Ha Astronomik Clip-in filter
20x180" - f/2.8 - @24mm - ISO 3200
15th of May

Foreground: Nikon Z6II (Stock) - Nikkor AF-S 20mm f/1.8G ED
1x10s - f/8 - 20mm - ISO 100
15th of June

Cheers

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