Vertical Galaxy
- www.kevin-palmer.com - At the end of October I went camping at Lily Lake, at 6,000 feet in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho. It was there I saw one of the darkest and clearest night skies I've ever seen. It was very cold, but I had a warm fire and a great night of astrophotography. In this shot I was testing out the half speed setting on my new iOptron Skytracker. It let me take a 66 second shot with minimal blurring on the trees and stars. It was one of the last opportunities to shoot the summer milky way until March. As you can see the center of the galaxy was already at the horizon as soon as it was dark. It was also the last possible weekend to camp here as a snowstorm came a couple days later and made this site inaccessible until spring.
Vertical Galaxy
- www.kevin-palmer.com - At the end of October I went camping at Lily Lake, at 6,000 feet in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho. It was there I saw one of the darkest and clearest night skies I've ever seen. It was very cold, but I had a warm fire and a great night of astrophotography. In this shot I was testing out the half speed setting on my new iOptron Skytracker. It let me take a 66 second shot with minimal blurring on the trees and stars. It was one of the last opportunities to shoot the summer milky way until March. As you can see the center of the galaxy was already at the horizon as soon as it was dark. It was also the last possible weekend to camp here as a snowstorm came a couple days later and made this site inaccessible until spring.