Penguin Rock

I visited Penguin Rock in JoshuaTree NP for the first time in 2012 and did some of my first dabblings in landscape astrophotography. I did not have much of a clue what I was doing back then and tried to capture some star trails under a very bright moon. Unsurprisingly, I was never happy with my results.

 

Ever since, I have been longing to go back and shoot the Milky Way with the gnarly Juniper tree leaning over the standing rock. After almost 10 years, I finally got my chance this February. The early core season offered only a short time window to capture the rising Milky Way in the right position, but fortunately, the sky conditions played along nicely.

 

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EXIF

Canon EOS Ra

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

Stack of 6 x 30s @ ISO1600 f/2, unfiltered + stack of 3 x 60s @ ISO6400, filtered

Foreground:

Focus stack of 6 exposures during blue hour. Each 5s @ ISO100 f/8

Done