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[alovelydesolation]

Two shots of the Milky Way from a hilltop in central Pennsylvania, nice and far from any major city or source of light pollution. The orange glow and haze near the horizon comes mostly from smoke particles still blowing down from Canada. The first shot was during nautical twilight, and the second was shot two hours later during the darkest portion of the night.

[nunoxaviermoreira]

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) by stephane_p 17x 10s @ 1600ISO with Sigma 300/2.8@f/4 (processed with Siril & Darktable) https://flic.kr/p/2jmFQWN

[bsfotomedia-blog]

#landscapephotography #astrophotography #tree #autumn #fallingleaves #stars #orange #nightsky #blue #glowinthedark #bulb #astrotracer #pentax #pentaxk1 #24mm #pentaxians #manfrottotripod (hier: Bischofsheim an der Rhön)

[alovelydesolation]

The Orion Nebula | Shot from the rim of the Grand Canyon in December, 2017.

A stack of 5 exposures to minimize noise and get as much confidence as possible about the details presented.

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The Milky Way, as seen from Pittsburgh’s North Park.

Light pollution limits some of the clarity, but I’m pretty happy with the results.

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Two views of the Pleiades from the sky last night over Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Wide Angle, and Extreme Telephoto.

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The night sky from near the Canadian border in New York.

Pentax K-1ii, Rokinon 14mm f2.8

[clayhaus]

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex. At the beginning of April I camped on the edge of the Muddy Mountains Wilderness Area in Nevada. I was hope for great daytime explorations of an area I had never been to and great nighttime astrophotography opportunities at night. The daytime worked great, the nighttime not so much. Three of the four nights there were still clouds at midnight as well as the omnipresent, overbearing, and astro-defeating Las Vegas light pollution along the southern horizon. The fourth night intense wind gusts raked our camp and prevented any tripod work. However, looking at my astrophotography planning app I could see that on the 3rd night the clouds would clear 2am. So, I set my alarm with the idea that I would shoot both the Milky Way and the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex as they rose in the east. Due to the Vegas light pollution, the Milky Way was but a very faint smear. But using a 85mm lens coupled with my astro-modified Pentax K1 I was able to capture 17 60 second exposures of the colourful nebula-and-stars cloud. This is using just the in-camera Astrotracer feature that only modern Pentax DSLRs have. No other special gear was used. I stacked and integrated the images in Astro Pixel Processor (no calibration files were captured) and further processed in Photoshop. The yellow mass in the lower-left of the frame is the edge of the Milky Way. The bright star is the massive orange giant Antares with just to its right (west) the large yellowish globular star cluster known affectionately as M 4. This star cluster is 7200 light years away whilst the cloud complex is only 460 light years away. #clayhausphotography #astrophotography #astronomy #astrotracer #pentaxk1 #rhoophiuchi https://www.instagram.com/p/CcgeKvsvEvu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=