Out of the Box Image of the Week for the week ending Aug. 16th, 2013: Diane Miller - Some more astronomy
Congratulations Diane!
There have been some good sky pictures lately. I missed the Milky way at the new moon due to major fog here, and weather and smoke from wildfires prevented a run west into Nevada. Then missed the Perseids because we were in LA hanging out with kids. (Night skies there aren't great.)
But I was going through some older images to make a slideshow and came across this one, which I decided to toss out. The lunar eclipse is the one of December 2010 (the stars are part of that exposure) combined with star trails shot some years ago with the original Canon 5D. The horizon and glow in the sky are from the star trail exposure, in the eastern Oregon desert. The glow is from distant fires, not sunrise.
I have more recent star trails with less noise (virtually none, by stacking short exposures) but I liked the glow and the way the trails faded out near the horizon. I'll deal with the noise someday.
C&C always welcome.
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