Alien World

During my September visit to the Trona Pinnacles, the setting quarter moon was preventing us from getting a clean shot of the Milky Way core. When the sky finally was fully dark, we soon decided to change our position and try to capture the Winter Milky Way over one of our favorite rock formations.

 

Some photographers call this section the 'bad' side of the Milky Way. In my opinion, they could not be more wrong. While it is a lot darker and therefore harder to capture than the region around the galactic core, the countless red nebulas and open star clusters make it one of the most colorful and interesting parts of the northern hemisphere sky.

 

Some of the better known deep sky objects visible are (top down):

- Double Cluster

- Heart and Soul Nebula

- California Nebula

- Pleiades

- Hyades

- Flaming Star Nebula

- Meissa Region

- Barnards Loop

- Orion Nebula

 

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EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Low Level Lighting

Sky:

8 x 60s @ISO3200

Foreground:

5 x 60s @ISO3200

Done