By Vermont Coronel Jr. | 2024-01-10
On 12/13/2023 08:30 pm by Ahmed Waddah| Al Fayoum Western Desert
The Winter Circle or Winter Hexagon is an asterism of a hexagon made of six stars. at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. Image is a blended composite, where sky was shot on the 13th of December during the Geminids Meteor shower so there are a couple of meteors in the frame that were captured within the 210 exposures. Unfortunately, there was clouds most of the night, so I wasn't able to utilize an image with more meteors from this night. Foreground was shot same night during blue hour just after sunset. Image was taken in the western desert in Al Fayoum, Egypt. It was a majestic night.
Sky:
Nikon Z6II - Astro-modified
Nikkor Z 14-24mm
f/2.8 S - 210x 30s - ISO 2500 - f/2.8 - 14mm
Ioptron SkyGuiderPro
Neewer Tripod Leveling Base
Sirui AM-284 Carbon Fiber Tripod
Foreground:
Nikon Z6II
Nikkor Z 14-24mm - 1 x 1/3s - iSO 100 - f/8 - 24mm
AstroPixel Processor - Pixinsight - Adobe Photoshop