10/17/2026
🤯 14K SATELLITE TRAILS! 🛰️ (NOT AI!)
This is the most time-consuming photo edit I've EVER done!
I left my camera photographing the night sky over Mt Taranaki for nearly TWO HOURS, capturing 578 photographs.
The result? An estimated 14,450 satellite trail appearances, representing approximately 1,400 individual satellites! 😱
I manually masked in EVERY SINGLE TRAIL from the original photographs — approximately 45 HOURS of editing to create this one image!
🔦 Those tiny lights on the mountain are TWO mountaineers descending Mt Taranaki in the darkness over nearly two hours!
🎥 COMING TOMORROW: The timelapse and behind-the-scenes footage showing how I captured it!
Did you realise there was this much satellite activity in our night skies? 👀
📍 Norfolk, Taranaki, New Zealand
📅 9 September 2026 | 8:18 pm – 10:13 pm
📷 Canon EOS R | Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4
⚙️ 8 sec | f/2 | ISO 6400 | 578 exposures
✨ Real sky • Real place • Real moment ✨
© Brendan Larsen Photography
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