What an awesome summer of Milky Way chasing its been for me, I’ve made some great new friends and covered a ton of ground. There’s only a month or so left this far north to capture the core before she slumbers for the winter, I will be getting out at least a couple more times in hopes to get a few more goodies to stock pile for a long winter of editing. I snagged this image last new moon in Grand Teton National Park. Battling severe smoke and solar wind (the green airglow) you see in the image, but I couldn’t pass up this reflection shot. Here you see Mars on the left and a bit of the core is muddled behind the smoke but I kind of like the effect it gave. Being in bear country at night definitely gives it more of an adventurous edge, luckily we had protection but I don’t recommend going to these places at night alone without bear spray or a firearm.
This is literally the only good thing that came from all of the smoke from the wildfires. I was taking the trash out the other day and saw the sun setting down thru the trees and smoke I ran in the house, confirming to Amaya that I’m crazy, slapped a zoom lens on my camera and ran back out. I clicked this off in a hurry from the driveway because it’s was mere seconds from ducking behind the power lines. I wasn’t going to do much with it but it turned out pretty cool! Thoughts? Fingers crossed that’s it for the smoke season this year!
These stars have graced this meadow for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years and this cabin for well over a hundred years, I was just lucky to be here with a friend for a few hours on a Saturday night. I was also extra lucky to catch this Iridium Flare which is the flying saucer looking thing in the image that is actually sunlight being reflected off of a satellite back to earth, not rare by any means but cool to catch in an image! Thanks for checking out one of my personal favorite images to date,
