The Milky Way at an abandoned church

Last night the sky was clear and my bat­ter­ies were charged. I loaded up my gear and head­ed to a spot I found last fall: an aban­doned church south of me.

For almost the entire time I was there—about 10:45pm till 2am—it was just me and the fire­flies and the crick­ets. A truck drove by at one point (very slow­ly, because I’d seen them com­ing and turned on my car’s lights), but oth­er than that I was alone under the stars.

Look at all those fireflies.

I did up a mul­ti-pho­to panora­ma, too, before I left.

Below is a time­lapse of the night. It’s made of 169 still images, each one a 30-sec­ond expo­sure at 11mm, f/2.8, ISO800.

It was almost 3am by the time I got to bed. It’s been a while since I stayed up that late. I think it was worth it, though.

Update

I just spent 90 min­utes or so stack­ing 16 images from my 2^nd cam­era into this image of a por­tion of the galaxy.

Inter­est­ed in prints of my pho­tos? Let me know, and we can work some­thing out.