Color Eruption [Explored]

Here is another image from my night at Crater Lake NP. Strong airglow was painting the horizon yellow, green and red, while the Winter Milky Way completed the nightly color eruption with its red Hydrogen emission nebulae and numerous star clusters.

 

Towards the morning, the air became humid. Damp fingers of fog suddenly engulfed the lodge on the far side of the lake, spilled over the rim of the crater and threatened to fill the caldera. Time to finish my last composition! A mere 30 minutes later, visibility had dropped to 200 feet and the nightly colors were replaced by fifty shades of grey in the light cone of my headlamp.

 

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EXIF

Canon EOS Ra

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 @ f/2

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Low Level Lighting

Sky:

Panorama of 4 panels, each a stack of 6 x 90s @ ISO800

Foreground:

Focus stack of 6x 30s @ ISO3200

Done