Towering Giants

'Towering Giants'

 

After the April 2024 solar eclipse, I headed to the Badlands National Park. It was a long and tiresome drive from Indiana to South Dakota. I finally arrived in the afternoon of the day after the eclipse and was glad to find many interesting compositions without the need for too much hiking.

 

The weather was partly cloudy and quite breezy, but later at night, it cleared almost completely, allowing me to capture this panorama of the rising Milky Way arc over the towering buttes near the Notch Trailhead.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro

Sigma 28mm f/2.8 ART

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

 

Foreground:

Focus stacked panorama of 10 panels, each 5x 2s @ ISO400 during twilight

 

Sky:

Panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 6x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered

 

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