Starry, starry night
Things were colluding for a good night to go out and hit the skies - clear day, promising to be a clear night, not too windy (at least not in Troy) and moonrise wasn't until 10:20 PM, or thereabouts. So Alex and I packed our shit (binoculars, sky map, flashlight, warm clothes, baseball bat (to ward off bears), camera and tripod), and headed off to Petersburg Pass.
Cold - very - when we got there, but clear as a bell, and Venus was the brightest thing in the sky, so we had wonderful viewing. Alex got to see the Milky Way for the first time tonight - and this was probably the first time I saw it since I was out west at Field Camp in the summer of 1990.
I took along the camera and tripod just on the odd chance that I'd get a chance to snap off a picture. I know nothing about the conditions necessary for taking star pictures, other than using a long exposure time. The max the camera gave me was 15 seconds, and it just happened to be set at f 3.5, so I just took that.
All in all, I was happy with two of them. I adjusted the levels in Photoshop to get as much dynamic contrast for what was there to begin with (so it isn't like I am cheating). At least one of the images has a somewhat recognizable feature...
Cold - very - when we got there, but clear as a bell, and Venus was the brightest thing in the sky, so we had wonderful viewing. Alex got to see the Milky Way for the first time tonight - and this was probably the first time I saw it since I was out west at Field Camp in the summer of 1990.
I took along the camera and tripod just on the odd chance that I'd get a chance to snap off a picture. I know nothing about the conditions necessary for taking star pictures, other than using a long exposure time. The max the camera gave me was 15 seconds, and it just happened to be set at f 3.5, so I just took that.
All in all, I was happy with two of them. I adjusted the levels in Photoshop to get as much dynamic contrast for what was there to begin with (so it isn't like I am cheating). At least one of the images has a somewhat recognizable feature...