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rdking647

(5,113 posts) Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:31 AM Jul 2015

Big bend national park at night

Last edited Sat Jul 18, 2015, 04:09 PM - Edit history (1)

I went to big bend to capture the milky way during the new moon. Big bend is rated one of the darkest sky locations in the continental US

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this is a total of a 25 minute exposure (50 30 second exposures stacked together

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Big bend national park at night (Original Post) rdking647 Jul 2015 OP

Amazing Place - Have Hiked There Many Times cantbeserious Jul 2015 #1

The Milky Way, seen from the right spot, is awesome. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #2

the new moon is best rdking647 Jul 2015 #3

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

1. Amazing Place - Have Hiked There Many Times

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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:45 AM

Jul 2015

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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

2. The Milky Way, seen from the right spot, is awesome.

Reply to rdking647 (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:51 PM

Jul 2015

I am always amazed at it, although I have only seen it that well once.

I thought that a new moon would be a better time to view the Milky Way though????

rdking647

(5,113 posts)

3. the new moon is best

Reply to rdking647 (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 04:10 PM

Jul 2015

and it was the new moon. i guess the desert heat baked my brain. it was 110+ at the rio grande although in the basin where i took these photos it was 20 degrees cooler

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