Overnight in the city

Star trails above a row of trees, lit from below by house lights and traffic

As I was going to bed last night, I took a look out the win­dow. The fore­cast had said it was sup­posed to be part­ly cloudy overnight, but the sky looked pret­ty clear. I set up a cam­era in the spare room, point­ed out the win­dow, and let it snap away. I fig­ured I’d get some star trails out of it if noth­ing else.

The auro­ra decid­ed to make an appear­ance. It was just get­ting ramped up when my cam­era bat­tery died around 2:30am, but I got a cou­ple good shots out of it.

Oh, and the star trails turned out pret­ty good, too. They’re at the top, and are tak­en from about the first hour and a half of the evening.

The video below is the full two hours and thir­ty-six min­utes, but it runs at 60x so that one sec­ond of video is one minute of real[1]What­ev­er that might mean, rel­a­tivis­ti­cal­ly. time.

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

Foot­notes

Foot­notes
1 What­ev­er that might mean, relativistically.

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