By Kurt Messick | 2024-01-15
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On 01/17/2024 06:23 pm by Mandy Daniels| Derbyshire, UK
The Peiades Cluster (lower left), Jupiter (upper right) with passing Starlink satellite and the faint trail of a passing aircraft. The Moon is off-frame to the upper right and caused significant skyglow with the long exposure which necessitated cropping of the image. The background has been darkened and the stars enlarged via a Gaussian blur to show many more of them. The original image was acquired from a heavily light-polluted area, just above streetlights
Nikon D800, 50 mm Prime Lens
f/4, 4s, ISO-3200
GIMP: Crop, adjust curves to remove background sky glow, apply 1.50 Gaussian blur to enlarge stars