Photo of the Week 2024-07-29

Working with captures from the same night time outing used to create last week's image,  I merged 2 (unstacked) frames as a mini pano to get another composition I wanted. This, showing the crazy light pollution glow over Tobermory when everything is closed for the night ...

' Tobermory glowing under the Milky Way '

... it was a significant challenge to bring out some detail of the Milky Way given the amount of light Tobermory was throwing off but I managed to get something that I like and I'm learning along the way.

DJE

 

 

Photo of the Week 2017-08-28

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 ?

Hay Bay - Milky Way

DJE

Photo of the Week 2016-08-08

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.

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