dheera

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Hi everyone! Thanks for all the support earlier on the widefield forum! Here I have another deep sky landscape, this time with a little longer focal length.

Here we have IC2177 (the "Seagull Nebula") rising over rock spires at Pinnacles National Park, as seen with a 300mm lens. This image was taken with about 2 hours of exposures in HOO and about 15 minutes of exposures in RGB. This was last night, when there was about a quarter moon, which gave a nice lighting to the rocks.

Aside from being the only national park that I can daytrip from the Bay Area, it's also a great lesser-known national park to explore and hike in, with some bat caves and other wonders to see.

More deep sky images I took on my Instagram: https://instagram.com/dheeranet/

Hi everyone! Thanks for the support on the Orion ultra-widefield that I posted earlier!

My Instagram: https://instagram.com/dheeranet/

Next up we have M16 and M17 setting over Mt. Shasta as seen from very far to the east, with a 135mm lens. In the foreground you can also see Pumice Stone Mountain, which is that big round rock. This area has been highly volcanic in geologically recent times, and Mt. Shasta is likely still active.

Up in the sky you see the Milky Way of course, M16 directly above Mt. Shasta, and M17 slightly to the left.

14 hours ago, AlexK said:

Unearthly view indeed!
Great job! I wish we could see it naked eye like that

I'm in the SFBA too (Albany). At first I thought that's the Mt. Diablo from the N-E side. But then figured these are much smaller peaks looking that bold due to the HDR effect. Where is it really? Just curious.

Yep it's not near Diablo at all. It's a really lonely narrow road, and I'd hate to geotag it publicly since the people who live off those ranches probably don't want loads of cars showing up there. DM me if you want though!

5 hours ago, Sunshine said:

A breathtaking image! wow is an understatement, welcome to SGL, i cant wait to see more images! 

Those peaks, let me guess, they're known as the twin peaks? 

There is a place called Twin Peaks in San Francisco which is smack in the middle of the city -- this isn't that place. This is a random place off a relatively unknown road that most people wouldn't know and I'm not sure if these peaks even have names! I was imaging there for 3 hours and didn't see a single car pass by.

Hi everyone, new on this forum! I'm doing a deep sky landscape series to try to give people a sense of how large deep sky objects are in the sky. I'll post back with some longer focal length examples, but to start off here's an extremely wide field of Orion and the Winter Milky Way rising over some peaks near the Bay Area in California, USA.

This image was taken at 21mm focal length on a DSLR. Imaged partly in RGB and partly in HOO and combined for HaORGB.

Also feel free to follow me on Instagram for more astrophotography: https://instagram.com/dheeranet/