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Episode 022 | Milky Way Over Lockwood

My goal this summer was to photograph the Milky Way. I’ve done that numerous times and have been really happy with some of the results, but now I’m learning how to take the processing a step further and get more out of the data I captured.

This image was taken at Lockwood Valley on August 12, 2026, during the Perseid meteor shower. It’s a stack of 60 30-second frames, tracked with the Move Shoot Move Nomad. For this one, I stacked the frames and then ran the image through Astro Wizard’s Master Wizard workflow, working with BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator and StarXTerminator for the first time.

Watching the dust structure and all of that gold in the Milky Way come out of the stack was probably my favorite part of the process. The first image is my finished version after Astro Wizard with some final color correction in Lightroom.

The second image shows where Astro Wizard had taken the stack before those final color adjustments, with all that gold still coming through. I’ve got a lot of data from this summer to go back through now, and I’m excited to see what else is hiding in it.

#SkyOverLA #MilkyWay #Astrophotography #MoveShootMove #LockwoodValley

Credit: @skyoverla - LAAS

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Episode 016 The Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20) captured with 31 minutes of total integration using the SeeStar S30 Pro. These neighboring nebulae, located about 4,000–5,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, are among the most spectacular star-forming regions in our galaxy. Captured under the dark skies at a LAAS observing session. Clear skies! 🔭✨ #Astrophotography #LagoonNebula #TrifidNebula #SeeStarS30Pro #laas

Credit: @skyoverla - LAAS.

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NGC 2174 - the Monkey Head Nebula.

Captured during a night at the Monterey Park Observatory with the LA Astronomical Society.

42 minutes under city skies, pushing through light pollution to pull this out.

Still learning. Still dialing it in.

Credit: @skyoverla

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#LAAS

#Monterey ParkObservatory #Seestar

#NGC2174 Monkey Head Nebula CityAstro SkyOverLA NightSky LosAngeles

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