Samit Saha from Kolkata, India

The Milky Way and, at proper, the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complicated make a surprising backdrop to this panorama taken within the city of Kotli, Himachal Pradesh, in northern India. The imager used a Nikon D5600 and 35mm lens at f/3.2 and took 25 sky frames of 120 seconds every at ISO 1600. The foreground was captured at blue hour with three 8-second frames at f/10 and ISO 400.