Kathleen came home from a coffee-with-the-ladies evening and said, “You should go take some pictures.” The sky was mostly clear and the night was warm, so I did.
The sky to the north was pretty busy, as you can probably tell from the star trails at the top of this post. I was about a mile from the end of the runway at the Brandon airport, and I think someone was doing night takeoff and landing practice, because a prop plane—maybe a Hercules, but I’m not sure it was quite loud enough—passed through my shot three or four times. And then there are all the satellite tracks, my word.
I also managed to get Jupiter and two of its moons (Io and Ganymede, if I’m reading this right).
And Orion was nice and bright, too. This is a stack of three photos, all taken at 50mm, f/1.8, 10 seconds, ISO 400. I wish the focus was slightly better.
All told I was out there for about an hour. As I was packing up my gear, I heard a coyote start yipping.
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