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"Forgotten Skies"
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The Milkyway [core] Season may have ended, but the season of the "anti-core" has commenced. Looking away from the galactic core, the outer galactic plane is no match for the core's brilliant brightness. However, this part of the night sky is filled with the wonderful colours of sweeping nebulas and fantastic deep sky objects. Despite the awesome beauty, this part of the sky is a difficult nightscape challenge. The dimmer sky means the foreground is darker. Wait for moonlight and the colours of the nebulas quickly become washed out. Expose for longer and the stars saturate and panoramas become problematic. Its difficulty has meant that these skies are not commonly found in nightscapes, and why I've titled this image (by no means a good image) - the forgotten skies.

This image was taken at Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia. Upon a small and deceptively dry salt lake (its thick mud hidden under a thin crust of salt) I pose amongst long dead trees that the rise up out of the lake long skeletal fingers. The outer plane of the Milkyway arcs overhead revealing its subtle colours and wonderous deep sky objects. From the left is the California nebula, the Pleiades, then the Orion and Horsehead nebulas embraced in the arms of Barnard's Loop, the Rosette nebula, the Vela supernova remnant, the Carina nebula, and the Coal Sack dark nebula. In the top right is the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the pale green dot in the top left is the comet 46P/Wirtanen. Throughout the sky there are streaks of green and orange/red caused by chemiluminescence of the atmosphere.

I used an Skywatcher StarAdventurer sky tracking mount to take this 40 x panel mosaic. A Canon EOS6d (modified) was used through a Canon 50mm f/1.2 lens stopped down to f/3.2. All camera and lens settings were kept the same for all panels, and all shots were taken one immediately after the other. The tracking mount was used for the sky and turned off for the foreground panels. Stitching in PTGui, colour balance, noise reduction, saturation and some brightness / contrast adjustment in Photoshop. Details below.

Details as follows:

| 2018-12-08 | Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 50 f1.2 lens | @f/3.2 | UV/IR cut-filter | ISO1600 | 25s | 40 x panels | Skywatcher StarAdventurer mount |

Enjoy,
Will Vrbasso.

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Lioness on black

Photo taken in Artis, the zoo in Amsterdam. Edited on a black background in Photoshop. So On black

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Camera: Canon EOS 650D
Lens: Lens: Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II

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