The "Milky Way" test of a boondocking site
I know there are many definitions of boondocking, and that is a good thing. But here is one possible test -- if you are not in a campground and you can see the Milky Way under clear skies, you are re...
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This was taken while we were boondocking in Sonora Pass in late June of 2015, at 9000 feet. There was still a little snow on the mountains, which were illuminated by a crescent moon low in the west (not in the shot). ISO was 3200, for 25 seconds, f/3.5 (which is as low as the stock 18-55 lens on my camera will go, unfortunately). I was using a noise reduction setting on the camera, which helped a lot, and then I massaged the photo a little in Lightroom, mostly to correct the colors so that they looked more natural:
And this photo, which is not that good, shows Cassiopeia pointing to the Andromeda Galaxy, which is the slanting smudge on the center right:
Finally, just for fun, I cropped that image of Andromeda and zoomed in on it -- you can see more of the "disk" shape of the galaxy, even though the image is grainy:
And this photo, which is not that good, shows Cassiopeia pointing to the Andromeda Galaxy, which is the slanting smudge on the center right:
Finally, just for fun, I cropped that image of Andromeda and zoomed in on it -- you can see more of the "disk" shape of the galaxy, even though the image is grainy:
