The Sky Above Me, The Earth Beneath
Jupiter (and Saturn just to the upper left of it) are setting.
Except for the fall fishery on the Humber River, in this area, the fly fishing season for Atlantic salmon closed on September 7th. So we took the truck camper down to the south coast of the island ... to the Sandbanks Provincial Park near Burgeo ... for a few days of R&R. I didn't take any of my scopes ... which was a mistake because the campsite we chose had a great view of the sky ... practically a dark sky site ... and the seeing was excellent (the stars bright and steady with no twinkling at all).
But I did have my Nikon D810 and lenses with me ... and my tripod ... so I set it up and grabbed a few shots of the Milky Way with the setting Jupiter and Saturn just to the left. This is just a single shot ... not a group of stacked images. And I never took any Darks or Flats with which to calibrate the shot. Turned out alright, though.
The other bright 'star' just above the treetops ... situated in the Milky Way ... is not a single star but actually a group of stars situated in the Lagoon Nebula. You will see that if you look at the larger version. You can even make out the red area of the Nebula.
Oh, and by the way, I didn't light paint those trees. :-) They were fortuitously lit by lights around the Park Office and Comfort Center. So that worked out great.
One more thing, I believe I caught some of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites in the shot. If you look down near treetop level over on the left in the larger version, you'll see four sets of bright dots all in a row.
The Sky Above Me, The Earth Beneath
Jupiter (and Saturn just to the upper left of it) are setting.
Except for the fall fishery on the Humber River, in this area, the fly fishing season for Atlantic salmon closed on September 7th. So we took the truck camper down to the south coast of the island ... to the Sandbanks Provincial Park near Burgeo ... for a few days of R&R. I didn't take any of my scopes ... which was a mistake because the campsite we chose had a great view of the sky ... practically a dark sky site ... and the seeing was excellent (the stars bright and steady with no twinkling at all).
But I did have my Nikon D810 and lenses with me ... and my tripod ... so I set it up and grabbed a few shots of the Milky Way with the setting Jupiter and Saturn just to the left. This is just a single shot ... not a group of stacked images. And I never took any Darks or Flats with which to calibrate the shot. Turned out alright, though.
The other bright 'star' just above the treetops ... situated in the Milky Way ... is not a single star but actually a group of stars situated in the Lagoon Nebula. You will see that if you look at the larger version. You can even make out the red area of the Nebula.
Oh, and by the way, I didn't light paint those trees. :-) They were fortuitously lit by lights around the Park Office and Comfort Center. So that worked out great.
One more thing, I believe I caught some of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites in the shot. If you look down near treetop level over on the left in the larger version, you'll see four sets of bright dots all in a row.