Planets and Milky Way Galaxy
Taken by Dewey Vanderhoff on August 31, 2016 @
Buffalo Bill Reservoir ; NW Wyoming USA
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I finally had a decent night to photograph the Mars-Saturn-Antares trio and the star clouds of the Scorpius-Ophiuchus-Sagitarrius region as landscapes ( which I call Starscapes) . I chose the deepwater " fjord" of Buffalo Bill Reservoir just west of my town of Cody Wyoming on the evening of August 31. Exposure on my Nikon D5300 camera were 20 secs. at f/2.8 using ISO 1600 ( late twilight) to 30 secs. at ISO 3200 ( astronomical darkness) with a Tokina ATX 11-16mm lens at 12 mm ( eq. focal length of 18mm ) . The far cliffs were illuminated by the headlights of passing cars at a distance, and I used a small LED booklamp to bring out the immediate foreground with 5-8 second fill exposures ( the soft blue ). Images were reprocessed in Nik Software D-Fine to further reduce grain and noise. Opportunities to do astrophotos have been rare this summer in northwest Wyoming due to the abundance of wildfires in the region dulling the night sky with smoke.
Photographer's website:
http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/planetcody/albums
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