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Salt lake pretty
Abhijit Patil, taken from Death Valley National Park, California
The Milky Way is reflected in the flooded salt flats of Death Valley’s Badwater Basin in this 21-panel panorama with an astro-modified Nikon Z 6ii and zoom lens at 20mm. Sky panels were exposures of 180 seconds taken at f/3.2 and ISO 800; foreground and reflection frames were 120-second exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 1600.