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Michael Flynn
Hudson Ranch Rd. S/W Kern County,California,USA
04/13/2023
08:51 pm

Equipment Details:

Nikon d850/Cosina-Zeiss 28mm f1.4 / 2.5 sec @ f 1.4 /ISO 3200 / w/b 4350 Kelvin

Post-processing Details:

Minimum processing on iPad 10

Image Details:

Venus-Mercury and the Pleiades start cluster setting over the Pacific joined by the Spring Zodiacal Light all in all there was a lot happening
it was difficult to get a somewhat clean image due to the commercial air traffic at this location the aircraft were about 30 seconds apart the wide open f 1.4 aperture helped by shortening the exposure minimizing the the aircraft trails five minutes later there was a satellite
train that would have been in the image the train lasted eight minutes by that time Mercury had already disappeared from view.

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