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Picture of the Day
Starry side up
Abhijit Patil, taken from Bisti, New Mexico
These “deviled egg” rock formations — also called the “Alien eggs” — lie under the Milky Way in this panorama taken with an astromodified Nikon Z 6II and 14–24mm zoom lens. The sky is a 4-panel mosaic, each frame taken at a focal length of 24mm and an exposure of 180 seconds at f/3.2 and ISO 800. The foreground was taken at blue hour at 16mm over 20 seconds at f/8 and ISO 100.