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Galactic Eruption

No this is not a volcano, it is Milky Way seemingly erupting between Mt. Mönch and Mt. Eiger, two of the most famous Swiss mountain peaks.

 

You might recognize this image as the final one of my latest time lapse movie flic.kr/p/X6w6oF

 

It was also the last image I took during my overnight stay at Hornseeli above Grindelwald. I actually had already called it a night and was packing up my equipment, when I looked up and saw the landscape bathed in the light of the rising moon, while the paling Milky Way was setting in the blueish sky, perfectliy perpndicular between those two iconic peaks. The view was so overhelming that I quickly grabed my camera and tripod and shot this last composition.

 

- Astro-modified Canon EOS 6D

- Samyang 24mm f/1.4

 

Foreground:

- Focus stack of 2x5 images of 60s @ ISO1600

 

Sky:

- 11x12s @ ISO6400

- untracked

- stacked with fitswork4

 

Thanks for all your faves and comments.

 

Prints available:

ralf-rohner.pixels.com/

 

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Uploaded on July 27, 2017
Taken on July 18, 2017