Milky Way Rising over Big Meadows, SNP

This Milky Way mosaic is a collection of Sky and Land frames taken at the same spot and night at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, back on June 1, 2024. Although I had planned for a much wider mosaic, not all of the frames stitched together, so a lot of images were thrown out. Technical. Canon 6DM2, with a Samyang 135mm F/2 Lens. In-camera white balance used to preserve close to natural color image. All images were 30-second exposures were made at f/2, ISO 1600, tracking with a Fornax lighttrack ii. Big Meadows, in SNP, is likely a Bortle 4 area, but there was a lot of airglow and light pollution domes in this direction, some of which was subtracted (kept most airglow). Raws were processed in Rawtherapee for full calibration, then exported 16-bit tifs into PTGui to stitch the sky and land images, rnc-color-stretch (astro-color-stretch python) to stretch the sky, photoshop to crop and combine imagines and make final curve adjustments.