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Zeta Rising with the Yuccas

            One of the things I wanted to accomplish on my trip to Joshua Tree this year was some deeper space objects rising with the park's famous Yucca trees.  The object in the sky here is called Zeta Ophiuchus, and is sits just beside the main body of the Milky Way most folks are used to seeing at wider angles.  

To accomplish this image, I worked out the alignment of the scene using my star tracking mount, and then shot the foreground with the camera stationary (tracker turned off) as I allowed the object to rise above my scene.  Once the object had cleared my scene, I rotated the camera up using the star tracking device, and then switched it on, so it would continue following the stars, rather than being still for the foreground.  After it was all said and done I added the sky back into the scene (essentially rewinding time, as it were), so that I could achieve maximum clarity of both the sky and foreground.  All objects are astronomically correct and captured at the same focal length (105mm).

Taken in: United States / California / Pinto Wye (show map)

Taken on: May 7, 2024

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Afterdark

Dan Thompson

Joshua Tree National Park

Milky Way

Orange

Red

Zeta Ophiuchus

astro photography

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deepspace

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Camera: Canon EOS R5, f/4.0, 2488 sec, 105mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS R5
Lens:	24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM \| Art 013
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	2488
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	6400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.5.1 (Windows)
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