Miramar View (milky way landscape)

[luigi]

Hi All,

A view of the Milky Way from the coastal city of Miramar, Argentina.
The rocks at the top are catching light from a nearby lighthouse do I keep them r remove them?

For this shot:

Sky:
I first did 2 stacks of 5 light frames (5dII,17-40,ISO3200,F4,20'') and 4 darks in DSS.
Then I registered and added the two stacks using Iris (Dss has no Add)
I removed the background pollution using PixInsight LE
I adjusted levels,saturation ,some cropping, some rotation, some noise reduction and some sharpening in PS.

Ground:
Panorama made from 5 shots then size adjusted to match the sky.

I'm not sure (yet) if the idea of adding 2 5 subs stacks is better than a single 10 subs stack in DSS but I need to experiment!

Cast:

From left to right Eta Carina nebula, crux & Coalsack nebula, Alpha & Beta Centauri.

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I hope the small size photo can be seen well enough I haven't uploaded a bigger photo to my website yet I wanted feedback from IIS first


Cheers from Argentina!
Luis

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[Hagar (Doug)]

Lovely image. I really like the foreground in this image ,it really sets off the sky well.

[middy]

I think that's a great shot Luis. I'd leave the rocks there. My personal preference would be to crop a little more of the rocks from the bottom of the picture so they are not quite as imposing.

You have caught the "emu in the sky" really well. I like that.

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Excellent shot, still scrating my head how you did this but excellent all the same, I agree keep the rock maybe get rid of the lighthouse although I imagine you will have a few coastal wrecks to take photos of in the future if you do

[mexhunter (César)]

Hola Luis:
Lovely image.
Me gustó mucho.
Many grettings
Cesar

[Ric]

A fantastic image Luis.

I like it the way it is in my opinion.

Cheers

[Liz]

A great image Luis.
Also think the rocks are great, and set the mood of the image.

[luigi]

Thank you for the feedback I think the rocks are going to stay!

[spearo (Frank)]

yes
good work
good composition
frank
frank

[RobF (Rob)]

Beautiful work Luis. Nice combination of ground and sky.