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Milky Way over Dino Park Badlands (July 8, 2024).jpg

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This is the summer Milky Way and Galactic Centre area over the red rocks of the Badlands formations at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta.

The Scutum Starcloud (top) and Small Sagittarius Starcloud (midway down the Milky Way) stand out. The main Sagittarius Starcloud just above the horizon and town skyglows is dimmed by its low altitude and some smoke in the air this night. Between the two Sagittarius starclouds is the pink Lagoon Nebula. Several Messier star clusters popular the field as well. The "Teapot" asterism that marks Sagittarius stands out fairly well.

Technical:
This is a blend of tracked and untracked exposures:
- one 4-minute untracked exposure for the ground at f/4 and ISO 1600,
- followed by a stack of 4 x 1-minute exposures for the sky, each at f/2 and ISO 400. All with the Nikkor 20mm S lens and Nikon Z6III camera. On the MSM Nomad tracker.

Taken July 8, 2024 as part of a set of images demonstrating untracked vs. tracked exposures. Adobe DeNoise AI applied to the ground image largely to eliminate the hot pixels, as I did not use Long Exposure Noise Reduction on this warm night to speed up the shooting.
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Alan Dyer
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This is the summer Milky Way and Galactic Centre area over the red rocks of the Badlands formations at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. <br /> <br /> The Scutum Starcloud (top) and Small Sagittarius Starcloud (midway down the Milky Way) stand out. The main Sagittarius Starcloud just above the horizon and town skyglows is dimmed by its low altitude and some smoke in the air this night. Between the two Sagittarius starclouds is the pink Lagoon Nebula. Several Messier star clusters popular the field as well. The "Teapot" asterism that marks Sagittarius stands out fairly well. <br /> <br /> Technical: <br /> This is a blend of tracked and untracked exposures: <br /> - one 4-minute untracked exposure for the ground at f/4 and ISO 1600, <br /> - followed by a stack of 4 x 1-minute exposures for the sky, each at f/2 and ISO 400. All with the Nikkor 20mm S lens and Nikon Z6III camera. On the MSM Nomad tracker. <br /> <br /> Taken July 8, 2024 as part of a set of images demonstrating untracked vs. tracked exposures. Adobe DeNoise AI applied to the ground image largely to eliminate the hot pixels, as I did not use Long Exposure Noise Reduction on this warm night to speed up the shooting.