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The heart and the soul of the mountain.

I just had to take advantage of this view from my backyard. I first did some basic planing with PhotoPills, but I would like to see more details, beside MW core...
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I just had to take advantage of this view from my backyard. I first did some basic planing with PhotoPills, but I would like to see more details, beside MW core from this app. That's why I decided to import Google Eart landscape to Stellarium and I was simply changing the time and date.
Importing landscape to Stellarium takes quite a lot of time and you gamble, because there is a good chance that nothing interesting will appear on your screen. Looks like I got quite lucky with this one.

About the landscape:
Mount Porezen is a mountain of the outlying Alps located in Slovenia. It is the highest summit of the Slovenian Prealps and one of the icons of Cerkljanska region. We could be one of the last generations to see Porezen as it is, since trees and other growth is taking over the meadows.

About the sky (source: wikipedia):
The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. It is an emission nebula showing glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.

Category:
-Tracked
-Stacked
-Blend
-Focal length blend (landscape was taken at 110mm, sky was taken at 135mm)
-Time-blend (I took the landscape shot earlier, when the mountain was still covered in snow. I have done this for better separation so the mountain stands out more).

EXIF:
Landscape: Nikon D610 & Tamron 70-200 @ 110mm, single shot at blue hour
Sky: @AstroHobby.it H-alpha astromodified Nikon D600 & Tamron 70-200 @ 135mm, f4, ISO 800, 90sec, 45min of data.
Tracked with Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Post: basic adjustments in LR, TIFFs stacked in Sequator, stretching and basic post done in Pixinsight, StarNET++ for a starless image. I used this starless image as by base image to do the rest of postprocessing in Photoshop, where I have also blended the sky and the landscape layers together.
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