Wonders Through the Haze - a photo on Flickriver

Wonders Through the Haze

            Airborne moisture and a hazy horizon made it difficult to get a sharp and clear image of the Milky Way rising when I visited Cuttagee Beach, Australia, in late April this year. 

Despite those challenges, I caught some of the majesty of our home galaxy’s core region as it climbed the sky. A prominent feature of this region of the sky is the Lagoon Nebula, aka M8, an interstellar cloud that shows in my photo as a distinctly pink blob about one-third of the way up from the bottom of the shot. At the bottom right, you can see a reflection of the yellowed glow of the Milky Way’s core area.

Due to how much the hazy conditions dimmed the sky, I pushed my camera’s sensitivity setting, the ISO, up beyond what I normally use for nightscape photos. I shot nine images in succession using my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f2.2, with an exposure time of 8.0 seconds @ ISO 12800. The nine single shots were then edited in Adobe Lightroom and stacked using Starry Landscape Stacker.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Barragga Bay (show map)

Taken on: April 22, 2023

Tags:

Astronomy

Astrophotography

Cuttagee

Galactic Core

Milky Way

Nature

Night

Nightscape Photography

Nightscapes

Sapphire Coast

Science

Skies

Sky

Stack

Stacked

Stars

Reflection

South Coast NSW

Starry Landscape Stacker

Betelgeuse

Orion

Refection

New South Wales « less

Sets appears in: • Nightscapes

Groups appears in: • BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live • Amateur Astro-Photography more » • PhotographingSpace.com • Yes you can see the Milky Way « less

Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/2.2, 8 sec, 50mm, ISO 12800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	YN50mm f/1.4
Aperture:	f/2.2
Exposure Time:	8
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	12800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.4 (Macintosh)
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