Album Night Shots and Star Trails

[kwc]

Moon rise over Haley Pond, Rangeley, Maine. 10/20/24

 

[Titans]

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:

 

[Janice]

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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Fabulous! Congrats to Rick for a great shot.

 

[Janice]

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.

 

[Janice]

Fabulous! Congrats to Rick for a great shot.

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.

 

[Yvonne]

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.

 

[Yvonne]

The comet a few days ago
I like that I could all in one shot: setting Venus, the comet, and the Milky Way

 

[wick e. pedia]

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).

 

[Curt]

From here in Nebraska
10/14/24


10/15/24


10/23/24

 

[Bill in Roswell]

one of my first attempts, Natural Bridges NM near Owochamo Bridge

I camped at Bridges campground around Oct 22 after a week boondocking southern Utah. Got a nice shot of stars and Milky Way with Pixel phone of all things.

 

[Bill in Roswell]

one of my first attempts, Natural Bridges NM near Owochamo Bridge

Mule Canyon Tower under the stars. As I was taking the shots, I was disappointed waswhen the clouds blew into the scene, but I actually like the way it turned out.


Mule Tower Star Trails by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr

 

[Bill in Roswell]

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.

 

[Janice]

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.

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!

 

[Titans]

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!

@Janice , it’s very easy to choose a compressed photo. Click attach files, choose photo library, notice BOTTOM right corner in blue (below photos), click bottom right corner, it takes you to “options”. Select large size instead of full size. You also have the option to deselect location.
It’s become very easy to upload smaller size photos

 

[Janice]

@Janice , it’s very easy to choose a compressed photo. Click attach files, choose photo library, notice BOTTOM right corner in blue (below photos), click bottom right corner, it takes you to “options”. Select large size instead of full size. You also have the option to deselect location.
It’s become very easy to upload smaller size photos

Thanks, @Titans, but my old computer is very unhappy these days, especially with the big files coming from my new phone, so unfortunately this just doesn't work for me. The wheel spins round and round... Maybe someday when I get a new device (it's from my school) this will work better...