Another shot from the early pre-dawn of March 16th. I was trying to capture the Milky Way core but it clouded up. The clouds were all moving the same direction and it made a neat streaking effect over ~5 minutes of exposure. The purple light is real (I was playing around with ambient lighting during the shot).

16mm f/1.8 lens on Nikon Z6 ii, captured in 13" subs.

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