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Milky Way from Lexington, Michigan
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Milky Way from Lexington, Michigan

Shot in the midnightish hour 06/06/2024. Milky Way is seen from the marina in Lexington, MI

Canon 6DMII, Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art lens.

Sky is 48x25” exposures, f1.8. And the foreground is a single 6” shot at f2. ISO 1600. Preprocessed in Lightroom for raw photo conversion. Methods as described by clarkvision.com. Stacked in Siril manually, Sigma Clipping with weighting for noise. Stars removed and a background extracted version blended to taste with the natural sky. Stretched and blended in Photoshop. Stars added back in and stretched to taste. Color space in Photoshop set to Rec. 2020

Tracked with a sky watcher AZ-GTE updated for EQ mode

u/Kastlrock_ISO — 10 hours ago