This last weekend was the return of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Some rates included seeing up to 100 meteors per hour. Unfortunately a small system moved in Saturday night causing cloud cover. The site that I thought would have been light free apparently went through a mighty makeover and there was light pollution everywhere.
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Heading back I took an HDR shot of Hillsboro's mean streets.
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| Dust on the lens, not a ghost. |
The next night, I went a little closer to home and ended up in a fairly good spot. A couple local grain elevators and cities caused some light pollution, but I could make out the Milky Way's faint arm. A strange orange colored thunderstorm (I'm guessing heat lightning) pulled my attention to the North. In the photo below, you can see it between the three trees.
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| One of the clearer space shots I've done. |
The last shot of space came out the best. No shooting stars but lots of stars and a galaxy to boot. I'm still playing with settings and thing I need to lower the ISO. I also wish there was a great dark spot close to home so I could go out and wonder more often.
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