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Picture of the Day
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.