Album Night Shots and Star Trails

[Yvonne]

 

[Rockskipper]

Where were these taken, @Yvonne?

Never mind - I saw where you said the Dalton Highway. Beautiful night there and you capture it so well.

 

[Yvonne]

Where were these taken, @Yvonne?

Never mind - I saw where you said the Dalton Highway. Beautiful night there and you capture it so well.

yeah, we headed up a few times to Dalton Highway
The spot was perfect with all the trees

 

[Yvonne]

First Milky Way Shots of the year, yeah!!

 

[Titans]

Milky Way, Escalante last week. Super narrow viewing window, after the moon set and just before sunrise

 

[Yvonne]

I took these images during our last eruption
I headed there each day at 4:30 am, and then again after my shift with the eruption Crew was done. I usually stayed after work until midnight.

 

[Yvonne]

Half the Park is after Dark
even without lava,
I enjoy my nights in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP

Milky Way before it was really dark

 

[Titans]

Nice dark sky on Cedar Mesa this week

 

[Titans]

Incredible stargazing this week, nice dark sky every night !

 

[TractorDoc]

Somewhere in the Teton Wilderness.



The green blob is my tent -- I did not realize the little LED on the phone charger would light it up so much.

 

[Titans]

@Ugly , Rick and I got up early to do some stargazing this week

Still very dark


Red demon light everywhere… (quick stitching of photos for now)


Getting lighter, @Ugly taking photos as well


A few weeks ago…

 

[TractorDoc]

Seeing this topic again reminded me that I had some pictures from my September Yellowstone trip to post.

From our campsite near the Gallatin River.



Taken near Grand Geyser. The blue line is/was a group of Starlink satellites as they moved across the sky.



An eruption of Old Faithful. Someone on the boardwalk decided to shine a flashlight during the eruption.



My favorite -- some steam from Old Faithful's vent and the rumblings of a storm in the distance.

 

[Curt]

I went out three different times to try to see Comet Pons-Brooks. The photo below was my last try and I think the best. Shot from the dam at Branched Oak State Recreation Area in SE Nebraska. Pons-Brooks is the green-turquoise light in the sky near the left margin. The bright disk in the sky near the right margin is the Andromeda Galaxy. There is also a small fuzzy white smudge in the sky just left of center which is the Triangulum Galaxy. The lights at the lake are at the Marina.

 

[Ugly]

I cannot rival @Yvonne's trip to Alaska, but we had this:
I took the color balance straight from the camera, but maybe it is still too warm or cold. I have never had to deal with any aurora photos before

 

[Bob]

Nice... How you set your camera

 

[Ugly]

Nice... How you set your camera

They were all long-exposures and varied settings. I forgot my better manual lens, but I tried many diff settings from 1-10 seconds. I can go higher ISO on these kinds of photos because the noise removal tools are better than ever.

If you mean for WB? I shoot RAW, but I have tried a few diff temp, It seems cooler is best, like 3500-4000K.

 

[Janice]

We also got to enjoy the show in southern Michigan last night. I had heard about the possibility of northern lights but forgot all about it until a neighbor knocked on our door around 10:00 telling us to check it out. We walked up to the park to get bigger skies and were treated to our first ever sighting. The photos (just from my phone) were more dramatic than what we saw. I was intrigued by this and did some research. A camera's long exposure combined with how our eyes work (rods & cones - cones don't pick up much color in dim light) result in more colorful images than what we're able to see.

 

[TractorDoc]

The photos (just from my phone) were more dramatic than what we saw. I was intrigued by this and did some research. A camera's long exposure combined with how our eyes work (rods & cones - cones don't pick up much color in dim light) result in more colorful images than what we're able to see.

I learned this too. I was out Friday night watching the sky and really did not see anything that wowed me. Saturday morning everyone sent me their colorful pictures -- including my dad who can barely answer his cell phone.

I went out again last night and here was the (camera's) view from North central Ohio.



Early on a storm was brewing on the horizon -- I caught a flash of lighting as the green was starting to appear.



The vertical waves moved across the sky over 10 - 15 minutes, then more clouds moved in. Most of the show was over by 12:30 am.

 

[Janice]

I learned this too. I was out Friday night watching the sky and really did not see anything that wowed me. Saturday morning everyone sent me their colorful pictures -- including my dad who can barely answer his cell phone.

I went out again last night and here was the (camera's) view from North central Ohio.

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Early on a storm was brewing on the horizon -- I caught a flash of lighting as the green was starting to appear.

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The vertical waves moved across the sky over 10 - 15 minutes, then more clouds moved in. Most of the show was over by 12:30 am.

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So glad you got to see it last night! What time was this? I went out from 10:00-11:00 but only saw a faint pink spot. Clouds moved in and I gave up.

 

[TractorDoc]

So glad you got to see it last night! What time was this?

I think this was around 12:30AM.

I put a movie on the idiot box (as my grandpa used to say ) to keep me awake and I'd go out every 30 minutes or so to look at the sky. We had heavy could cover earlier in the day, but it cleared out somewhat by 11pm so I plunked my camp chair out in the middle of a field and waited.