"Nebulas in the Wind"
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The mighty Carina nebula shines like a flower blossom carried by the wind from the branches of a dead tree. The dimmer red nebulas such as the Running Chicken and Liberty nebula are like trailing petals. This image was taken along the shores of Yenyening lake, Western Australia. The dry salt lake is lined with dead trees that have succumbed to the harsh environment, but never the less some life manages to thrive.

Without any moon and with no bright Milkyway core to illuminate the foreground, a heavy amount of noise filtering was required to bring out any detail of the foreground. Perhaps it might've been better to leave the foreground as a silohuette, but its nice to be able to see something of the landscape.

I used an Skywatcher StarAdventurer sky tracking mount to take this 2 x panel mosaic. A Canon EOS6d (modified) was used through a Canon 85mm f/1.2 lens stopped down to f/3.2. All camera and lens settings were kept the same for both panels, and all shots were taken one immediately after the other. The tracking mount was used for the sky and turned off for the foreground panel. Stitching in PTGui, colour balance, noise reduction, saturation and some brightness / contrast adjustment in Photoshop. Details below.

Details as follows:

| 2018-12-08 | Yenyening Lakes, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 85mm f1.2 lens | @f/3.2 | UV/IR cut-filter | ISO1600 | 25s | 2 x panels | Skywatcher StarAdventurer mount |

Enjoy,
Will Vrbasso.

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