This is from 3 weeks ago or so. Arches was first on my list to capture the Milky Way as I was driving back from my daughters in Colorado to California. I set up 2 of my cameras to get some rock spires in the image, I already posted one of those. But this one was my insurance shot as I had been having issues with the movement of the Milky Way at night, and I wanted to make sure that even if my other 2 cameras weren't perfectly lined up for the Milky Way, that this one would for sure catch it. 
So across the road in arches from the other 2 cameras, I went out into the desert far around to avoid lights from cars I hoped, and then aimed it. I knew the light pollution from Moab would be in the image, but there was nothing I could do about it, so I embraced it.
The glow from Moab was so much more then I thought it would be. The highlight slider really pulled it down, as it was much worse then you see here, but there is still that purple glow emanating from the horizon, and as the Milky Way moved across the image from Left to Right and the core centered over the glow from Moab, it kind of felt to me like this could be a factory of the Milky Way with it pouring out from that glow. Maybe it was too much imagination, or too little sleep.... but that's what I saw.
A single image here, except to piece in the rest of the meteor that stretched out to another frame on either side of this. So for processing, before any processing, I layer masked in the missing pieces of the meteor into this image, so then I was doing processing on just a single image. There wasn't really any moon, so the ground was dark, and I increased the exposure a stop and pulled up the shadows for the ground layer.
Nikon D810
Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 (which is stuck at 14mm since it crashed in Valley of Fire on my old D810 2 years ago)
ISO 3200
25sec
f2.8
All comments are welcome,
Jim
So across the road in arches from the other 2 cameras, I went out into the desert far around to avoid lights from cars I hoped, and then aimed it. I knew the light pollution from Moab would be in the image, but there was nothing I could do about it, so I embraced it.
The glow from Moab was so much more then I thought it would be. The highlight slider really pulled it down, as it was much worse then you see here, but there is still that purple glow emanating from the horizon, and as the Milky Way moved across the image from Left to Right and the core centered over the glow from Moab, it kind of felt to me like this could be a factory of the Milky Way with it pouring out from that glow. Maybe it was too much imagination, or too little sleep.... but that's what I saw.
A single image here, except to piece in the rest of the meteor that stretched out to another frame on either side of this. So for processing, before any processing, I layer masked in the missing pieces of the meteor into this image, so then I was doing processing on just a single image. There wasn't really any moon, so the ground was dark, and I increased the exposure a stop and pulled up the shadows for the ground layer.
Nikon D810
Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 (which is stuck at 14mm since it crashed in Valley of Fire on my old D810 2 years ago)
ISO 3200
25sec
f2.8
All comments are welcome,
Jim
