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Fresh Milky Way
Returning to Mt. Rainier's Sunrise to shoot the Milky Way again, this time stacking five frames for a noticeably cleaner, more detailed result.
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Light Mode Mountain
Hunting the Milky Way around the Matterhorn in Zermatt: clouded out every night, but the daytime drama made for an ethereal mountain shot.
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Solar Descent
Branching out from the Milky Way to chase Seattle's dramatic sunsets, and finally catching a sunburst breaking between the downtown buildings.
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Galaxy Photo Quest
A first attempt at photographing the Milky Way from Sunrise at Mt. Rainier, and learning how to edit a night-sky shot to make the galaxy's band pop.
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Seeking NEOWISE
Catching Comet NEOWISE over light-polluted Seattle with a Sony A6000, and being surprised by what the lens pulled out of the sky.
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Mapping it out
Building a Martian terrain height-map in Python from HiRISE relief imagery: grayscale conversion, altitude scaling, and a 3D surface plot to land on.
