Cygnus Amid the Pines

Cygnus or the Northern Cross is setting amid the pine trees at Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park, on a late October night. Cepheus is above and the bright star Vega is low and just above the trees. Deneb is at centre, as is the dark nebula Lynds 3, the Funnel Cloud Nebula. Light cloud adds the natural star glows but also discolours the sky near the horizon.

This is a stack of 7 exposures for the trees, mean combined to smooth noise, and one exposure for the sky, all untracked, and all 25 seconds at f/2 with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.

Credit to: Blue Planet Archive / VWPics / Alan Dyer

Image dimensions: 5400x3564

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