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Winter Milky Way in Trona Pinnacles, Isaac Teal

Winter Milky Way in Trona Pinnacles

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Winter Milky Way in Trona Pinnacles, Isaac Teal

Winter Milky Way in Trona Pinnacles

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The imagery here was taken in two parts, with imagery from a third supplemented. For planning, I used an app to frame up what I wanted the milky way to look like and took the midpoint between the left and right compass directions to know where to point the camera to frame up a working composition. I then scouted out good options in Trona Pinnacles in southern California and took blue hour landscape imagery in all of those. Later, when conditions were good and the framing I wanted was close to occuring, I took 11 shots of the region tracked. In post I composited the two sections. I cheated to get better aesthetics on Orion/Horsehead by using my existing Orion/HH shot and overlaying it over the area and blending in just those two nebulae, and then adding some noise to match the noise profiles and decreasing saturation to match the other Ha regions from the stack.

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Winter Milky Way in Trona Pinnacles, Isaac Teal