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This
past weekend was the 3rd annual weekend at the cottage with Lynn's
older sister and her family. This year Bill and Cathy stayed with us
while Michael, Melissa, Hannah and Thompson stayed at Lands End
Campground across the bay.
Although timing had not been in my favour for night sky shots for a while. We
were fortunate enough to have 3 great days of weather and 3 wickedly
clear nights where the night sky was dark, full of stars and the Milky
Way ... and I was able to fight through the siren call of the sheets as darkness falls ;-)
I managed to make it late enough on 3 consecutive nights to see the night sky complete with Milky Way from the shore in front of the fire pit, this image was made the first night and it didn't get any better than this ... how could it ?
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| Hay Bay - Milky Way |
DJE
The most difficult aspect to photographing the night sky, stars and the Milky Way is staying up late enough these days ;-)
With another summer coming to an end, daylight hours are becoming shorter, darkness comes earlier, and so too does the time when stars and the Milky Way come out for night photography. It's a gradual change, but at some point it grabs your attention and you realize that at this time not so long ago it was still light out and perhaps the sun had not yet set.
With a clear night sky a week ago, it was only 10:00 pm when the stars were out in all their glory with the Milky Way easily visible to the naked eye ... oh how I love the view when light pollution from the major populations centres is far away and the magic is revealed.
With a little help from quality gear and some digital enhancement, the images can be breathtaking ...
DJE
I've made better images of the night sky, but I hope the experience connected to this one will linger in memory for a time.
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| which one ? |
The perseids meteor shower is nearing it's peak for 2016 and with a clear sky Saturday night, and some urging from Lynn, we headed outside around 10:00 to see what we could see. The sky was unbelievably clear and there seemed to be more stars than ever as we stood at the shore craning our necks to take it all in.
I had checked several online references to assist in locating perseids and after some time, found it rising in the N-NE sky just above the tree line. I went back to the cottage for a camera and tripod to see if I could capture any of the meteors. Coming back out, we looked up and realized that there was a better view from the deck so I set up there. Each grabbing a chair, we took in over an hour of quietly sitting under the Milky Way in the warm summer night air (free of bugs thanks to the breeze off the lake) before we called it a night.
As luck would have it, I was not able to capture a meteor in any of the images I made, but we think we saw one or two while I was getting set up.
DJE
