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Garth Battista
Halcottsville NY (Catskill Mountains)
11/12/2023
11:15 pm

Equipment Details:

Sony a7iii, astro-modded
Rokinon 12mm lens at f/2.0, ISO 2000
25 seconds per frame.

Post-processing Details:

This is a stack of three frames for increased light gathering and reduced sensor noise, with a light-pollution reduction.

Image Details:

Milky Way + aurora. I wasn't expecting the aurora! I had left my camera out to do an all-night timelapse of the Milky Way, looking to the northwest. No aurora had been forecast, or if it was, I missed the news. So what a wonderful surprise! Though now I wish I had turned my camera a bit further to the north....

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