Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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The Milky Way's Core [Bortle 2], Brent Newton
The Milky Way's Core [Bortle 2]
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The Milky Way's Core [Bortle 2]

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The Milky Way's Core [Bortle 2], Brent Newton
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The Milky Way's Core [Bortle 2]

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Description

A potshot at the Milky Way while waiting for true darkness to settle in. I shot this from a Bortle 2 site to which I had traveled for the Perseids. Color proved difficult here, the haze turned the skky in long exposure a dull yellow yet the stacking process bleached much of the color.

Pixinsight:
 - WBPP using Darks, Bias
 - Star Align, Integration

 - Crop
 - DBE
 - Color Calib
 - Rista TGVD, MMT NR
 - ArcSinH, Masked Stretch
 - Rista ACDNR
 - Curves tweaks, color tweaks

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The Milky Way's Core [Bortle 2], Brent Newton

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