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🌌 Ancient Stones, Infinite Stars – Milky Way Over Timna Park 🌌
I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally share this image—one of my favorite night sky shots ever, taken in the magical landscape of Timna Park. This isn’t just a single click: it’s 20 stacked exposures, each 15 seconds long, carefully aligned and blended to reveal every detail of the Milky Way stretching above the desert. The process was as much an adventure as the night itself.
Timna Park’s unique geology made the perfect foreground—this weathered, ancient boulder looking like it’s been waiting for a thousand years just to sit under the stars. The glow on the horizon? That’s the persistent light pollution from the Arava valley and a subtle touch from Jordan on the other side. Despite it, the sky here is a window to the universe.
Gear Talk:
I used my trusty (and non-modified!) Sony Alpha 6400 with the Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C Ultra-wide-angle Prime lens. The lens lets you scoop up so much sky, and the clarity surprised me even without any astro-mods.
Editing Journey:
The workflow was a labor of love—stacking the images with Sequator, pulling out delicate star details with PixInsight, and finishing everything in Lightroom for those final touches. Hours of work, but seeing the Milky Way pop out, with that wild desert landscape below, made it 100% worth it.
A little astronomy bonus:
If you look carefully, you’ll spot a faint cone of light rising from the horizon, aiming toward the Milky Way. That’s likely zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off dust particles in our solar system. It’s a rare sight, and Timna’s dark skies made it possible to capture it.
No AI, no fakes—just patience, gear, software, and pure fascination with our universe. I hope you feel the same wonder I did under those ancient stars.
🌌 Ancient Stones, Infinite Stars – Milky Way Over Timna Park 🌌
I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally share this image—one of my favorite night sky shots ever, taken in the magical landscape of Timna Park. This isn’t just a single click: it’s 20 stacked exposures, each 15 seconds long, carefully aligned and blended to reveal every detail of the Milky Way stretching above the desert. The process was as much an adventure as the night itself.
Timna Park’s unique geology made the perfect foreground—this weathered, ancient boulder looking like it’s been waiting for a thousand years just to sit under the stars. The glow on the horizon? That’s the persistent light pollution from the Arava valley and a subtle touch from Jordan on the other side. Despite it, the sky here is a window to the universe.
Gear Talk:
I used my trusty (and non-modified!) Sony Alpha 6400 with the Sony E 11mm F1.8 APS-C Ultra-wide-angle Prime lens. The lens lets you scoop up so much sky, and the clarity surprised me even without any astro-mods.
Editing Journey:
The workflow was a labor of love—stacking the images with Sequator, pulling out delicate star details with PixInsight, and finishing everything in Lightroom for those final touches. Hours of work, but seeing the Milky Way pop out, with that wild desert landscape below, made it 100% worth it.
A little astronomy bonus:
If you look carefully, you’ll spot a faint cone of light rising from the horizon, aiming toward the Milky Way. That’s likely zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off dust particles in our solar system. It’s a rare sight, and Timna’s dark skies made it possible to capture it.
No AI, no fakes—just patience, gear, software, and pure fascination with our universe. I hope you feel the same wonder I did under those ancient stars.