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Remarks |
This was during a time lapse effort some eight miles north of Mount Adams (WA state), looking southwest. The time lapse consisted of over 300 shots, each 15 seconds long, with a 5-second rest in between shots using a 24mm lens at a 1.4 aperture. My activity during the time lapse was . . . to take a nap. Upon wakening, dew had pretty much covered the lens, ruining the intended time lapse effort. Packed up the gear and left. Did not really review those particular photos in detail until just this past week or so (four years later), during some random photo reviewing. One photo had an outstanding artifact in the lower right corner. At 100% zoom it is kind of spectacular looking, with a thin, trailing tail, and then, as if it exploded, a very wide, mostly uniform (very wide) path continuing . . . and a few stutter-ridges tapering to a final flare at its nose, and then a point. Very bright white.
Remember, this was a 15-second photo so did not know the behavior of the item during the 15 seconds (was it one-second? five-seconds? No idea . . . was asleep.) The photos on either side of this shot showed no big difference in ambient sky lighting . . . so the sky-lighting appearance was mostly dictated by the distant city lights. (Otherwise, it was a dark sky area on a new-moon-ish night.) The dew, at this point, did not obscure many of the major stars. The nuances of the Milky Way (the intended subject) were lost due to dew-blurring. |
