Airglow was invading the night skies on this night. Much like in my previous timelapse looking to the West, the airglow just went a bit psycho. I now not many will like this, but airglow is real, and this is what it looks like. I remember the first time I came across it years ago when I saw shooting the Milky Way up in Yellowstone, I spent hours trying to process out the green and magenta casts out of the night sky because I had assumed something went wrong with my capture. Only later did I find out about airglow that it's a natural phenomenon. I then slowly began to accept and then embrace airglow over the years.
So my last timelapse was looking West, this one is looking to the East specifically to catch the Milky Way. This camera I had walked back maybe close to a half mile from the road, across a rock scattered field (that I had to walk through in the dark once an hour to check on the camera), down behind a hill in hopes of getting away from all lights from passing cars. For the most part I succeeded. It didn't help that in the middle of the night a car stopped about a mile down the road (I was up on a rise) and these 2 people got out and spent the next several hours with powerful flashlights just walking around the hills and shining their lights, waving them all over looking for who knows what? I don't know what they were looking for and what they would have done with what they were looking for when they found it. I had just wished they had found a place that wasn't so close to where I was.
The night sky was captured pretty normal, ISO 3200, 25 sec exposures at f2 with the Nikon D850 and the Sigma 14mm f1.8 lens. I set the exposure manually in the camera and just locked in my remote to trigger shots all night long. It is made up of 1535 images. I have a dummy battery and small little portable power supply that lets it run all night without my having to worry about batteries running out.
This is just north of Furnace Creek in Death Valley looking to the East.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
So my last timelapse was looking West, this one is looking to the East specifically to catch the Milky Way. This camera I had walked back maybe close to a half mile from the road, across a rock scattered field (that I had to walk through in the dark once an hour to check on the camera), down behind a hill in hopes of getting away from all lights from passing cars. For the most part I succeeded. It didn't help that in the middle of the night a car stopped about a mile down the road (I was up on a rise) and these 2 people got out and spent the next several hours with powerful flashlights just walking around the hills and shining their lights, waving them all over looking for who knows what? I don't know what they were looking for and what they would have done with what they were looking for when they found it. I had just wished they had found a place that wasn't so close to where I was.
The night sky was captured pretty normal, ISO 3200, 25 sec exposures at f2 with the Nikon D850 and the Sigma 14mm f1.8 lens. I set the exposure manually in the camera and just locked in my remote to trigger shots all night long. It is made up of 1535 images. I have a dummy battery and small little portable power supply that lets it run all night without my having to worry about batteries running out.
This is just north of Furnace Creek in Death Valley looking to the East.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
