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Castle Hill, Arthur's Pass

Another one ticked of my bucket list. The famous rock formations of Castle Hill, Arthur's Pass. The core of the milky way is just to the right of the largest rock in the middle. In the bottom half of the core, with a little imagination, you can make out the shape of New Zealand's flightless bird called the kiwi, nicknamed the galactic kiwi. The beak and head are black, it's body is light coloured and it's black legs are dangling below.

 

Shot with Sony A7R IV camera.

Foreground: 9 shot panorama, shot just during blue hour with Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 lens at 28mm landscape orientation, 1/125 sec, f/13, ISO 400.

Night sky: 13 shot panorama shot around midnight with Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 lens at 28mm portrait orientation, 60 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600, tracked.

Denoised in DxO PhotoLab 4, Stitched, blended and processed in Affinity Photo.

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Uploaded on August 12, 2021
Taken on August 10, 2021