Judd Patterson
06-29-2008, 12:00 PM
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1156/1487780516_d400c7a15a_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/juddpatterson/1487780516/)
Sorry if you've seen this before...just had never posted it here at BPN.
Canon 5D, 24m f/1.4
40 sec, f/2.2, ISO 800
October 2007
Konza Prairie, Kansas
Cottonwood, Milky Way, and Jupiter
It took quite a number of attempts to finally create this image. Just finding the right tree took me about a year. It needed to be alone on a hillside where I could get down below, and it had to face the right direction for the Milky Way to be included...then you wait for the right lunar and weather conditions to give things a try! I was back home for a couple days last month and was very sad to learn that this tree did not make it through a bad ice storm...it has now toppled to the ground, a victim of its isolated position on the top of the hill.
Oh, and do me a favor...turn off those lights. Attempting night sky photography makes you intimately aware of light pollution. It's just so hard to find dark skies in much of the eastern United States...how much longer will our western skies be clear?
http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/slides/ast/places.gif
Sorry if you've seen this before...just had never posted it here at BPN.
Canon 5D, 24m f/1.4
40 sec, f/2.2, ISO 800
October 2007
Konza Prairie, Kansas
Cottonwood, Milky Way, and Jupiter
It took quite a number of attempts to finally create this image. Just finding the right tree took me about a year. It needed to be alone on a hillside where I could get down below, and it had to face the right direction for the Milky Way to be included...then you wait for the right lunar and weather conditions to give things a try! I was back home for a couple days last month and was very sad to learn that this tree did not make it through a bad ice storm...it has now toppled to the ground, a victim of its isolated position on the top of the hill.
Oh, and do me a favor...turn off those lights. Attempting night sky photography makes you intimately aware of light pollution. It's just so hard to find dark skies in much of the eastern United States...how much longer will our western skies be clear?
http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/slides/ast/places.gif