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Galactic high

Soumyadeep Mukherjee from Kolkata, India

The Milky Way soars above mountain peaks in the village Merak at an elevation of 14,000 feet, in Ladakh, India. Visible deep-sky objects include M8 and M20 (at left). The imager used a Nikon mirrorless camera and 135mm lens to take 24 one-minute exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 3200; the foreground is 5 three-minute exposures at ISO 2000.