some fun in a bortle class 1

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i drove a couple hours northeast from redding california into modoc national forest to reach a bortle class 1 [2/17/20 ~10p]...

Nikon 50mm f/1.4 on Nikon D800 10sec 2000iso

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Nikon 50mm f/1.4 on Nikon D800 10sec 2000iso

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Nikon 50mm f/1.4 on Nikon D800 10sec 2000iso

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Nikon 50mm f/1.4 on Nikon D800 10sec 2000iso

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Nikon 14-24mm @ 14mm f/2.8 on Nikon D800 30sec 2000iso

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Nikon 14-24mm @ 14mm f/2.8 on Nikon D800 30sec 2000iso

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Nikon 14-24mm @ 14mm f/2.8 on Nikon D800 30sec 2000iso

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Nikon 14-24mm @ 14mm f/2.8 on Nikon D800 30sec 2000iso

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[Dragonsfire]

Nice collection! Thanks

[pakarinen]

Gorgeous. Unfortunately, my jones for some woods / dark sky time has just ratcheted up about 5 notches. Dang.

[JayTee]

Lovely images. I'm also a bit jealous that you have access to B1.

A quick tip for your images. I'm assuming that you used the lens wide open because of all those pretty seagull star shapes at the periphery of your image. One way to minimize that is to stop down the lens one or two clicks so the lens is not wide open.

Thanks for sharing your images,
JT

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here's one of orion without any downscaling:

Nikon 50mm f/1.4 10sec 2000iso Nikon D800 Bortle 1 Non-Tracking Mount Single Exposure

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Here is the above image of Orion cropped into 4 separate panels with no downscaling (each 2456x3680)
Nikon 50mm f/1.4 10sec 2000iso Nikon D800 Bortle 1 Non-Tracking Mount Single Exposure