Bridging the Galaxy

I captured this image during my 2019 trip to Italy. It shows the bridge leading to a medieval fortress in the Abruzzo region.

 

I like this composition, as it shows the fortress from an angle I have not seen before, at least not in a nightscape.

 

The illumination of the fortress was very bright and required extreme exposure bracketing. The alignment of the Milky Way was perfect, but the strong light pollution from the floodlights, in connection to the less than perfect skies of the region, made capturing the sky a real challenge.

 

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EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Tamron 15-30mm f2.8mm

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

9 x 30s @ ISO1600, tracked

Foreground:

Stacked exposure bracketing of 18 exposures from 1/8s @ ISO100 to 60s @ ISO1600

Done