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Peter Forister
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
08/07/2021
01:00 am

Equipment Details:

Canon Rebel t3 with Rokinon 16mm f/2 wide angle lens. Shot at iso 3300, 40x 20" subs, f/4. Tracked with Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Pro 2i

Post-processing Details:

Stacked the 50x frames in Sequator, stretched and data processed in Adobe Photoshop, And then final light and color adjustments in Adobe Lightroom.

Image Details:

This is the Cygnus region of the Milky Way with a couple small Perseid meteors, tracked over a couple of hours on a clear Summer evening from Charlottesville, Virginia (Bortle 5 skies). This is one of my favorite regions of the night sky, with lots of visible nebulae and colorful stars. I was fortunate to see a couple bright early-arrival Persied meteors while I was shooting!

Deneb and Vega are the brightest stars in the photo. The North American Nebula is the purple region in the center.

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