Everything on the Summit of Mauna Kea
The hike to this angle would be fairly easy in normal conditions, but it was a bit of an adventure to scramble up the side of a large cinder cone, alone, at night, at an altitude of 13,700 feet, in 30+ mph winds. You can see my headlamp trail in the lower portion of the image.
This image is stacked from 77 40-second exposures shot with a Rokinon/Samyang/Bower (they're all the same) 35mm f/1.4 at f/2. Keck was using their adaptive optics laser to observe the Milky Way, and an early Perseid meteor streaked through the sky. It was bright enough to light up the clouds.
Everything on the Summit of Mauna Kea
The hike to this angle would be fairly easy in normal conditions, but it was a bit of an adventure to scramble up the side of a large cinder cone, alone, at night, at an altitude of 13,700 feet, in 30+ mph winds. You can see my headlamp trail in the lower portion of the image.
This image is stacked from 77 40-second exposures shot with a Rokinon/Samyang/Bower (they're all the same) 35mm f/1.4 at f/2. Keck was using their adaptive optics laser to observe the Milky Way, and an early Perseid meteor streaked through the sky. It was bright enough to light up the clouds.