Venus and the Milky Way over Moonstone Beach
Taken on the night of 2021-10-08 from Cambria, CA. There's subtle light on the rocky coast and ocean from the hotels and restaurants behind me. Scorpius is just disappearing into the water, with Venus in its claws. It wasn't bright enough to pick up visually, but light from Venus is reflecting off the Pacific Ocean. The Milky Way stretches up through the constellations of Sagittarius, Scutum, and Serpens.
The sky is a stack of 31 30 s exposures at ISO 6400 with a Nikon D5100 modified for astrophotography. The camera was mounted on a polar aligned omegon Minitrack LX2. The shore and ocean are from one image in that stack. The sky was stacked and processed in PixInsight, and the foreground and sky were composited in Photoshop.
Venus and the Milky Way over Moonstone Beach
Taken on the night of 2021-10-08 from Cambria, CA. There's subtle light on the rocky coast and ocean from the hotels and restaurants behind me. Scorpius is just disappearing into the water, with Venus in its claws. It wasn't bright enough to pick up visually, but light from Venus is reflecting off the Pacific Ocean. The Milky Way stretches up through the constellations of Sagittarius, Scutum, and Serpens.
The sky is a stack of 31 30 s exposures at ISO 6400 with a Nikon D5100 modified for astrophotography. The camera was mounted on a polar aligned omegon Minitrack LX2. The shore and ocean are from one image in that stack. The sky was stacked and processed in PixInsight, and the foreground and sky were composited in Photoshop.