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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.