Close Encounter [Explored]

During my post Solar Eclipse trip in April 2024, I headed to Devils Tower National Monument. While scouting for sky alignments, I realized that not only was I able to capture the tower with the rising Milky Way core, but I also had a short window of opportunity to shoot it with the setting winter Milky Way and Orion.

 

Fortunately, the afternoon clouds cleared quickly enough for me to capture this 'close encounter' of Orion with Devils Tower that I had never seen before.

 

EXIF

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

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

 

Sky:

2 panel panorama, each a stack of 6x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered

 

Foreground:

Focus stacked panorama of 2 panels, each 5x 6s @ ISO400 during twilight

Done