Abhijit Patil, taken from Dying Valley Nationwide Park, California

The Milky Way is mirrored within the flooded salt flats of Dying Valley’s Badwater Basin on this 21-panel panorama with an astro-modified Nikon Z 6ii and zoom lens at 20mm. Sky panels have been exposures of 180 seconds taken at f/3.2 and ISO 800; foreground and reflection frames have been 120-second exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 1600.