Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Antares 🦂 rising over the Valley of Whales 🐋, Ahmed Waddah
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Antares 🦂 rising over the Valley of Whales 🐋

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Antares 🦂 rising over the Valley of Whales 🐋, Ahmed Waddah
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Antares 🦂 rising over the Valley of Whales 🐋

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This is my first successful capture of Antares and Rho Ophiuchi this year. Usually, it rises around 4 am and that's when I am dead tired and have no energy to re-polar align and take calibrations, also that is when the light starts to brighten the sky from the southeast so usually results are not that good.  I had photographed Antares rise with Venus and Mercury a week earlier, but the deeper field of view had failed. The Foreground was captured during blue hour and sky at the end of the night from the same position. I decided to try to get these Astro landscapes as real looking as possible to I went with a slightly processed sky to make it look as I witnessed the hours before sunrise.

Sky:
Nikon Z6II - Astro-modified 
Rokinon 135mm f/2 - Optolong L-Pro
f/2.8 S - 90x 30s - ISO 1600 - f/2.8 
SGP

Foreground:
Nikon Z6II 
Rokinon 135mm f/2 
1 x 1/40s - ISO 100 - f/8 - 135mm

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