A recent article on Petapixel on Adobe Lightroom CC (the upgrade from the regular Adobe Lightroom) has my interest piqued. LR now comes with a dehazing tool that reportedly does great stuff to photos that have haze in them. A lesser-known application is the automation of contrast and exposure adjustment to astrophotographs. I decided to revisit one of my older photographs of the Milky Way from Yosemite and try it out. The result is below.

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