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Are we alone...?

I am lucky enough to live close enough to an astronomical observatory, which I have been meaning to visit for a while, due to it was close and it has been reopened not long ago. I really wanted to visit this place cause this is the place where every photographer with an insterest in night photography, would like to take a shot, this is the place where you can be closer to the stars on earth. Technically speaking, for this picture I took 50 pictures to stack them and reduce noise and get more detail of the milky way and on the other hand, I light the ground a little bit using a led light that I put on a tripod pointing at the buildings to give them more presence.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Almaden de la plata, Spain
Copyright: © Adrian Pandelet