Pinnacles and Stars [Explored]

During my Los Angeles layover in early February, I captured my first Milky Way panorama of the current core season.

 

I have shot at Trona Pinnacles before, but this is the first time I captured a panorama that gives an overview of the stunning foreground structures.

 

Despite being classified as a bortle 2 area, light pollution is pretty strong. You can see two distinct light domes. The middle one is from Las Vegas (130 miles) and the right one from Los Angeles (100 miles). The blueish glow on the very left is from the mines in Trona.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS Ra

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

 

Sky:

8 panel panorama. Each a stack of 6 x 30s @ ISO1600, f/2 unfiltered + 3 x 60s @ ISO6400, f/1.4, filtered

 

Foreground:

8 panel panorama. Each 5s @ ISO100, f/8 during blue hour

Done