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The Core Returns - Blend/Tracked/Stacked.

This was a PERFECT morning - it rained on the way out, but it was clear when we arrived in Joshua Tree National Park on Friday morning, March 24. I recently finished part of a Milky Way Masterclass on tracked MW images and how to blend them. This is my first attempt and I'm pretty happy with the results. I took a three-minute exposure of Skull Rock, and then went across the road up a short incline and captured six three-minute tracked images of the sky. The placement of the Dark Horse is about spot on for what I saw rising when taking the foreground. Edited in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.

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Nikon Z6iiA, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens

Sky: six 180 second exposures, f/2.8, ISO 640, tracked with a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro and stacked with Sequator.

Foreground: single 180 second exposure, f/6.3, ISO 6400

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Uploaded on March 27, 2023
Taken on March 24, 2023