Northern Resplendence

Early spring Milky Way rises over a frozen lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.

I drove to these dark skies one day after the Lyrid Meteor shower peak, on April 23 to catch my last chance at April's Milky Way rise in hopes of dialing in a new approach to this year's night photography.

I wanted detail, and a focus on our galaxy's utterly beautiful core. So without going too wide I shot 4 rows of 4 frames on the sky, and 4 rows on horizon/foreground for a total of 20 frames in the mosaic.

Note the red wisp near top left - a persistant meteor smoke trail that made it into three of the frames.

Image details:

Stock Nikon D750, Sigma ART 85mm on Star Adventurer Tracker

120s exposures, ISO800, f/2.8

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