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Modine-Benstead Observatory

This is a stack of 195 frames from a timelapse I took at the Modine-Benstead Observatory in Union Grove, Wisconsin on June 26, 2016, 00:24 – 01:19. I started ...
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This is a stack of 195 frames from a timelapse I took at the Modine-Benstead Observatory in Union Grove, Wisconsin on June 26, 2016, 00:24 – 01:19. I started out with a median stack mode of all 195 frames in Photoshop to remove people, car headlights, lightning bugs, etc. for a base layer with no noise. This also created a very clean sky with nothing but Polaris or the North Star. Next I masked in 6 frames of lightning in the distance from a thunderstorm passing through. On top of that I masked in a layer of star trails and moving clouds in lighten mode, stacked with Advanced Stacker Plus. Finally, I masked back in three frames of people and tripods.

Camera settings: 14mm, f-2.8, ISO 2500, 15 seconds.

Equipment used: Nikon D810, Nikon 14-24mm f-2.8, MeFOTO RoadTrip tripod. Edited with Lightroom and LRTimelapse. Stacked with Photoshop and Advanced Stacker Plus.
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