Death Embraces Eternity

This dead tree in central Switzerland seemingly reaches out to embrace the eternal beauty of the galactic core.

 

While shooting the focus stack for this image during nautical twilight, I noticed the Milky Way becoming visible in my LCD and really liked the composition. As I had not yet set up my tracking mount, I quickly shot an untracked single exposure of the sky. That was a good decision, because a few minutes later, when my tracker was aligned, the galactic core was blocked by clouds.

 

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EXIF

Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified

Samyang 24mm, f/1.4 @ f/2

Sky:

Single exposure of 12s @ ISO6400

Foreground:

Focus stack of 3 panels, each a stack of 5 x 50s @ ISO1600

Done