Silent Maelstrom - a photo on Flickriver

Silent Maelstrom

            The emptiness of space does not transmit the sounds of solar flares, sunspots, a black hole swallowing anything that comes near, the births and deaths of stars and meteors slamming into planets and moons. This maelstrom, visible occasionally, is our galaxy, the Milky Way, composed of one hundred billion stars forming about four arms spiraling outward. When viewed from another galaxy, the arms are all in the same plane, a thin disk with the diameter of one hundred thousand light years. A super massive black hole is at the rotational center of the Milky Way.

The Flatirons in Boulder are in the foreground.

This photo is a composite of 19 star shots (6 sec, f2.8, ISO 6400) and one shot of the landscape (20 sec, f2.8, ISO 6400). StarryLandscapeStacker rotated the 19 star images to a single, precisely focused image. The image of the stars and image of the landscape were combined into a single image in Photoshop.

Photo taken in the greenbelt adjacent to Boulder, whose lights helped by illuminating the foreground, but making it trickier to get a decent shot of the Milky Way--that is the light in the sky to the left. In addition, forest fire smoke may have contributed to this photo as well.

Taken in: United States / Colorado / Boulder (show map)

Taken on: July 27, 2021

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/2.8, 6 sec, 50mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens:	Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	6
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	6400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 22.4 (Macintosh)
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