Cape Woolamai : Milky Way

Full moon night. But moonrise about two hours after sunset. So just enough time to capture some stars. Guess the glow on the horizon is left over from sunset. Amazing how long it takes to completely disappear. Probably longer than two hours. Of course it would be nice to think it's the Aurora Australis. I doubt that.

 

Processing technique:

 

9x 15s ISO640 14mm F2.8 images.

 

1. Open as layers in PS

2. Mask out the land and copy mask to all;

3. Group into "sky" group;

4. Duplicate that group and make a "land" group;

5. Auto align the nine images in the sky group;

6. Delete all the masks in the sky group;

7. Convert to smart object;

8. Blend-mode Median;

 

Now do the land group: invert the masks and do same as above.

 

Finish by blending the two groups together.

Done