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Michael Flynn
10 miles West of Pine Mountain Club,CA USA
02/19/2023
07:34 pm

Equipment Details:

Nikon d850 / Cosina Zeiss 15mm f2.8 / ISO 10,000 / @f 2.8 / 10 sec / w/b 4,000 Kelvin

Post-processing Details:

light processing on iPad 10

Image Details:

The Zodiacal Light over the Pacific the sky glow is from the communities of Santa Barbara and Ventura at the top of the image is the
Pleiades star cluster at the bottom of the image are the planets Jupiter and Venus setting into the light pollution and marine layer overallI feel lucky to have got a clean image because every minute that passed a parade of commercial passenger aircraft were passing through the frame heading for LAX this was the only image that was acceptable.