The summer and autumn Milky Way over Chief Mountain at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 201

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The summer and autumn Milky Way over Chief Mountain at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016. Mars is just below M8 the Lagoon Nebula here. This is a stack of frames from the start of a time-lapse sequence with the western sky still blue with evening twilight. The ground is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, while the sky is from one exposure, the first in 400 in the time-lapse. Each exposure is 20 seconds at with the 20mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.

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Size: 5400px × 3605px
Location: Chief Mountain, Police Outpost Provincial Park, Southern Alberta, Canada
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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