Sea and Stars; Van Damme State Park Beach, Mendocino CA (Richard Smith)

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Sea and Stars; Van Damme State Park Beach, Mendocino CA

On our trip up the North Californian coast, I was hoping we'd get a break in the fog and that I'd get chance to get some nightscapes by the sea. I got lucky last night with an incredibly clear and dark sky. Still got a bunch of data to process but I did get chance to try something new after catching the Milky Way standing straight on the southern horizon. The sky in this picture is a mosaic of three overlapping tracked and stacked shots that I merged in Photoshop, then added in a non-tracked foreground view of the beach and cove in Van Damme State Park, just south of Mendocino. This took longer to process than take!
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The Technical Bit
Taken with Nikon D3500 with Nikkor 18-55mm zoom lens at 18mm, f3.5, tracked on SWSA mount
Sky consists of three panels, each 12x30 second exposures @ ISO 1600, no flats or darks
Foreground consists of a single panel, 10x10 second exposures @ ISO 6400
Initial image optical corrections in Lightroom
Each panel stacked in SiriL
Final processed and assembly in Photoshop

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