Rho Rising over the Fields
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Rho Rising- This is a limited edition of 8
There are few celestial objects as stunning and colourful as Rho Ophiuci, a beloved photographic astronomical target. The Rho Ophiuci Molecular Cloud complex is a dusty area very close to the Milky Way core, as well as the red star Antares in Scorpius, whose red light scatters and gives the dust that unique yellow glow. Visible in the Summer months from the Northern Hemisphere, it rises in the early spring morning as captured here in April of 2023 near Port Albert, Ontario.
Technical details
Milky Way images are a blend of two images take at the same time ,at the same location, on the same night. Because space moves and the earth does not, the sky image must be shot with the camera mounted on a specialized sky tracker to keep the star sharp and in focus. Next the tracker must be turned off, in order to capture a sharp image of the (motionless) earth. Both images are combined in software back in the studio.
Here I used a Nikon Z6ii Astro-modified camera and a 85 Rokinon Manual lens. Several long exposures of the sky images were aligned, stacked and blended with an untracked foreground image.
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