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20-Jun-2023 jimmsp

08 The Wipple Observatory -- 14 miles away

Quail Creek, AZ

Up on Mount Hopkins in the Santa Rita Mountains.
Altitude is 8,553 ft.

Per Google Earth, it is 14.12 miles from my home, where I shot this from.

The air was hazy today (19th), so I had to use a little Lightroom dehaze, and I also had to decrease the blue curve a little bit. I also cropped this, about 25% of the middle of the raw shot. I have about 32Mp to work with. It was sharpened up and denoised with Topaz.

It was windy all day, so the tripod was weighted down and I shot at 1/2000 sec.

Canon EOS 90D
1/1600s f/9.0 at 560.0mm iso500 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Guest 06-Jul-2023 22:57
Have you considered dehazing this?
Canon Image Challenge20-Jun-2023 18:29
This is a newer image, shot this morning. The haze was not as bad, and I liked the clouds a lot, so it is not cropped as much as the earlier image.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge20-Jun-2023 16:34
They were flying the cloaked choppers today out of the air force base.


Jim
Canon Image Challenge20-Jun-2023 15:43
Where are the M*A*S*H choppers?

Dave