Album Night Shots and Star Trails

Titans said:
Here’s round two, last evening. The comet was much higher in the sky and barely, barely visible with the naked eye. The woman in the center of the photo first located the comet by using her iPhone. Then Rick switched lenses and captured it:

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Round three, yesterday evening and same situation tonight. No moon, faint comet, but visible to the naked eye. Here’s what Rick captured as Venus was setting:


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Not a great photo compared to Rick's or others', but it was fun to see this. We were up north in Michigan's lower peninsula and found a good spot for comet viewing. The sky looks a lot lighter in the photo than it was in person. We didn't see the comet with the naked eye until after we found it with binoculars and then took a picture. I realized after the fact that I could have just pointed my phone's camera at the sky, taken a picture, and then searched for the comet after seeing where it was in the picture.
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Janice said:
Fabulous! Congrats to Rick for a great shot. :)
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I just found in your (Rick's) photo the same bright stars we used to locate the comet - the two that make a pair horizontally and the single one to the left of those two.
 
We had a partial solar eclipse earlier this month, which was cool.
I had never seen a solar eclipse before, so seeing it right after sunrise was exciting.

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I originally set out to hike in to Hartenstein Lake, camp, and then summit Mount Yale two weekends ago, but that trip got canned when the first fall storm of the year rolled in. I wasn't sure if the warm, dry days that had followed the storm had done enough to melt things off, but I did find some wiggle room in the schedule to head down to the Collegiate Peaks yesterday and check it out.

Snowline was easily down into the trees, and deeper in most places than I wanted to trek through for a summit push. So, instead I simply mushed around South Texas Creek on the CDT off the north side of Cottonwood Pass for a couple hours and car camped on the other side of the Arkansas with some great views of Mount Princeton (and, if you squint, Venus center-left).
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Nice shots, by the way! We were camped not too far from Mule Canyon at Salvation Knob. Not sure how to post photos - looked for instructions.
 
Bill in Roswell said:
Nice shots, by the way! We were camped not too far from Mule Canyon at Salvation Knob. Not sure how to post photos - looked for instructions.
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If you haven't found instructions yet, give this a try: Click on reply (or for a separate trip report, go into Forums, Post Thread, and Trip Reports). Then click on Attach files, choose your photos, then click on Insert and Thumbnail or Full image. Then when you're ready, click on Post reply. FYI, after my old phone died and I got a new one (ugh, I hate dealing with new technology) my photo files have been too big. If that happens to you and you know how to compress them, you'll be way ahead of me!
 
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