Pixinsight, Photoshop

A Moonlit Milky Way.

On Day 3 of Astronomads Bangla's tour to Nepal, a crescent moon was sitting right at the great riff. We had plans to capture it right from the beginning, however, the capturing and processing was may more challenging than we could imagine. I personally had never seen a 21% illuminated moon looking so bright (thanks to being brought up in a metro city).
Finally we came up with this image, and we liked it. The details of the galactic arm may not be prominent, but the moon adds a lot to the whole composition.

Well, here we present our first image from the Nepal tour from a Bortle 2 sky.

Gear: Nikon D750, Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art, ioptron Skyguider pro, Benro Rhino Series Triopd

Exif:
Sky: 12 * 30 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 400, 50mm
Foreground: 5 * 15 seconds, f/4, ISO 1600, 50mm

Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop

Credit: Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Basudeb Chakrabarti (Astronomads Bangla)