11/03/2026
Hidden treasures of the Milky Way above Sajama.
For the first time, using a star tracker allowed me to reveal this region of the sky with a level of precision I had never achieved before. What looks like a single patch of the Milky Way is actually filled with deep-sky wonders.
In this frame you can find the glowing Lagoon Nebula, the delicate Trifid Nebula, the Messier 23 star cluster, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24), and the dark void of Barnard 92, sometimes called the Black Hole Nebula.
All of them drifting silently above the snowy slopes of Sajama, beneath one of the darkest skies on Earth.
Moments like this remind me that the Milky Way is not just a band of light — it’s a vast landscape waiting to be explored. And the best part: this experience will be possible again next May during the Astroruta del Altiplano.
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Deepscape – Track - Stack - Blend
• Background: Sony a6000 / Samyang 100mm 2.8 lens (= to 150mm) / ISO 3200 - f/3.2 - 30 sec / 26 stacked photos
• Foreground: Sony a6000 / Sony 24mm lens / ISO 640 - f/2.8 - 30 sec / 6 stacked photos
• Star tracker: Skywatcher - staradventurer 2i
• Processed in Lightroom, Sequator, Photoshop, starnet++, OrionX, Topaz Denoise.
• Location: Parque Nacional Sajama, Bolivia.
• Subject: Milky Way Core, Lagoon Nebula, Trifid Nebula, M-23, M-24, Barnard 92 aligned with the Mt. Sajama
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Available for printing in Bolivian territory