One of the neatest thing about being in the desert was the relative lack of light pollution. It really made for some starry skies. Had it not been for the waxing moon, which rose well before sundown, I'm sure things would have looked even better. We all talked a couple of nights about setting an alarm to get up early after the moon had set, but it never happened.
This shot was taken at the Airport camp along the White Rim Road, and I believe the tower on the left is the one they refer to as "Airport Tower", but I couldn't swear to it.
In this image the rising moon puts just enough glow on the tower and the surrounding cliffs to make it interesting. This was a 30 second exposure at f4, using iso800 with a 16mm Zenitar lens. The Zenitar is kinda fishy, so I did defish it a little so that it didn't look so twisted. But frankly, now I'm not sure I like the image as well. The defishing led to some cropping and it looks quite different from the original frame.
Also, I did run neat-image through the shot to clean it up. So some of the smaller stars were no doubt gobbled up in the noise reduction.
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You know that moment in almost every StarTrek adventure when the Enterprise is poised to enter hyper space? Right! When all at once the soundtrack rumbles, "FAAWOOOOOSH!" and then... then the stars all turn into trails and asteroids svish by on every side?
Y'done it. You caught the very... very... very last tiny teeny instant before the "FAAWOOOOOSH!" And I'm standing there waiting for it, bracing myself, knowing its coming... coming.
It is coming, right Michael? Aren't we poised to leap over those red walls into the bluest, darkest, infinity? To boldly go where none have gone before?
This is beautiful what a capture !!! BRAVO
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