"Eruption of Colours"
This 'Deepscape' image shows the spectacular Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex & Blue Horsehead nebula rising over Mt Warning, an ancient volcano in New South Wales.
Mt Warning is known to local Aborigines as 'Wollumbin' or Cloud Catcher, due to the frequent presence of clouds at the top of the mountain.
The crescent moon was setting as I started taking images which provided some natural lighting for the foreground.
I took considerable effort whilst blending to ensure that the tracked sky was correctly positioned in relation to the untracked foreground, making it a very close representation of what the scene might look like to future generations with their cybernetically and genetically enhanced eyesight.
Sky : Dual cameras & lenses on a SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount, with similar field of view.
Camera 1 : CentralDS full-spectrum modified & cooled Canon 6D with Sigma Art 85mm F/1.4 lens at F/3.2. 70 x 60 second exposures.
Camera 2 : ZWO ASI294MC-Pro cooled astronomy camera with Sigma Art 50mm F/1.4 lens at F/3.2. 35 x 2 minute exposures
Auto-Guiding : ZWO ASI290mm mini camera with ZWO 30F4 guidescope
Foreground : CentralDS Canon 6D, 85mm 6 images stacked for noise reduction, ISO 800, 30 seconds
Software : Captured with two sessions of Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2 guiding.
Sky processed with both camera's images and a full set of dark, flat and flat-darks in AstroPixelProcessor. Post processing and blending in Adobe Photoshop.
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