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Milky Way Hocking Hills Cabin 8-10-2021, jratino

Milky Way Hocking Hills Cabin 8-10-2021

Milky Way Hocking Hills Cabin 8-10-2021, jratino

Milky Way Hocking Hills Cabin 8-10-2021

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This was shot on our last night during our trip to Hocking Hills.  We were fortunate to find a cabin located on top of a mountain with an unimpeded view the sky.  The Milky Way was literally above our heads.  I believe the area is a Bortle 3 sky, when compared to Cherry Springs (Bortle 2).  It was nice not to have to lug all of the equipment to a dark sky park and instead simply step outside the cabin.

I saw many Perseids Meteors during my evenings shooting.  And have left the what I believe to be a meteor in this shot.

Background – Two Panel PanoramaEach panel is 3 120 sec shots at 18mm and F2.2 ISO 800

ForegroundSingle image at 2.5 secs F2.8 ISO 1600Lit with light on my portable battery pack 

Lens correction in Lightroom

Stacked in Sequator

Stitched together with MS ICE

Stars removed in Starnet++

Photoshop: Starless image: Noise reduced with Topaz DeNoise, Colors adjusted with Channel Mixer, Gradient reduced with GradientXTerminator.  Stars reintroduced as a stars only layer.  BG removed from FG image, blended as a layer.  Slight curve adjustment.

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Milky Way Hocking Hills Cabin 8-10-2021, jratino