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View of the lake from near the site of the ancestral Sts'Ailes village of Qwólts.

The air was cool and fresh after the previous night's rain. It was a beautiful place to spend some time with @Noviri, soaking in the hot springs. ❤️‍

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Thanks to my coworker, I've got a bunch of astrophotography I can post-process! (which is a newfound passion) This is his capture of the Veil Nebula, 37x twenty-second subs, most processing done in SiriL. (registration, stacking, color correction, initial stretch)

I'm actually not crazy about how this came out, the colors seem more muted than his original image. (He's using an IR-pass camera and I'm using a correction that assumes it's standard RGB). Also, whether it's the banding reduction or dark correction, I ended up with a pretty nasty gradient in the stacked image that I needed to subtract out. I tried to be gentle about that, but I'm a little nervous that I took out some image information too.

Anyway, expect more of this in the future, but slowly. These things are a decent chunk of work, and I mercifully didn't have to clean up much pixel noise in this one thanks to the star field. 😅

Processed image is mine by agreement with photographer, image is licensed CC-BY-NC-4.0