Sandcastle [Explored]

This image shows the Winter Milky Way with Canis Mayor, Orion, and Taurus above Mono Lake's Sand Tufas.

 

The Tufas at Mono Lake are quite popular for landscape astrophotography, and the place was rather crowded during my visit in late June. I, therefore, was pleasantly surprised to have it to myself in early October. Obviously, many nightscapers still put their cameras away once the 'core season' is over. I have been trying for years to spread word that the Winter Milky Way is at least as great a target as the Milky Way core, but sometimes it is good to see that those efforts haven't been too successful...

 

EXIF

Canon EOS-R, astro-modified

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

 

Sky:

Vertical panorama of 3 panels, each a stack of 10x45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x105s @ ISO6400, filtered

Foreground:

Focus stack of 6x5s @ ISO400, during twilight

Done