Astronomer's Bane

Robbug

During my month long road trip, my wife and I had planned on a two night (all night up) stay at a dark sky site to do some deep sky observing and night photography. I always knew there would be the possiblity of rain but I figured, meh, it's the dry season. Well Murphy struck and during our trip in the Southwest it rained. Astronomy out but photography can march on. Here was an image I exposed while at Mayhill, NM. I was sitting there fuming just hitting the remote switch over and over.



I did get a nice time lapse stream of the clouds rolling in/out. If your interested here it is: (**warning it's 5mb in length) "It's OK, I have great bandwidth/am willing to wait"

It's a bit dark but...you get the picture.

Rob

thapamd

Very nice, Rob! Is that little bit of light in the sky from the moon? The time lapse was also great. Thanks for sharing.

NealAddy

I've always wanted to go to New Mexico Skies.

Nice shot! Sorry to hear your seeing stunk but it still sounds like a great trip.

Robbug

Mahesh - no it was about 40 minutes or so after sunset. The photo is a bit overexposed for the conditions but I was trying to get a cloud to light up. After that I was just hitting the shutter button

Neal - we had a great time. During the day we hit White Sands NM (gonna post a couple of those here soon). Their facility is topnotch.

Rob

coscorrosa

Sweet sky, great colors and I love the little star specks.