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Psychedelic Skies

Can the sky be on an LSD trip? Looks like. At least I got this impression during my visit to this little known fire lookout last June.

 

While capturing this 360° panorama, the airglow was so strong that I was able to see it with my naked eyes. When the images popped up on my camera screen, I shortly wondered whether the colors weren't caused by a northern light. Of course, this is impossible under the Milky Way arc in Northern California, but I am still not sure if the strong reds along the northern horizon weren't caused by an Aurora display extending this far south.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS-R, astro-modified

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

Panorama of 20 panels, each a stack of 7x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered.

Foreground:

Panorama of 20x 4s @ ISO100, during twilight.

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Uploaded on March 14, 2023
Taken on June 27, 2022