Nocturnal

Imagery of the night skies, from Milky Way to aurora. The light and colors that the camera picks up, which the human eye can barely detect, never cease to amaze me.

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Andromeda Galaxy, Olmsted Point

If you haven’t scoped out your astrophotography compositions before sunset, it can be tough hopping around the granite boulders of Olmsted Point in the pitch black trying to find some! It is really, really dark here during a new moon, and you have to carefully watch your step. Even though this tree wasn’t facing the Milky Way’s galactic core, I was so enamored with it’s shape I had to do a little light painting. I believe that is the Andromeda Galaxy just upper right to the tree. Single exposure, ISO 1600, 15 seconds, f/2.
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