Rückkehr des Milchstraßenkerns, Goshen Pass (OC)

I photographed this image at the swinging bridge in Goshen Pass, Virginia in late March, when the Milky Way core is visible in the early morning hours before dawn.

Photographed with a Sony A7III (Ha mod) and Sony 50mm 1.2 GM lens and 24mm 1.4 lens in Goshen Pass, Virginia. Land is a 2 minute exposure (during which a car fortuitously passed lighting up the trees and water) and the sky is a combination of two hour long integrations of RGB and Hydrogen alpha data.

This is a composite image using a sky I photographed separately from the land in order to refine the sky image using two hours of data.

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