Looking up at the sky near midnight, it seemed dark, but maybe slightly greyish rather than black. The Sky Quality Meter gave a reading of sqml=21.52, which is nicely dark. However, the camera revealed what the eye cannot see. It is astonishing to find out what is going on overhead at the threshold of perception.
The Milky Way rising over McCall gulch on Snowshoe Mountain:
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| Sony A7iii + Laowa 15mm f/2 + Sparkle-6 filter. ISO 1600, 30 s. |
The Milky Way was overlaid with moving bands of green and purple airglow. The four images in this animation spanned an interval of about 7 minutes. The two middle images used a Softon filter.
After capturing these images I was about to pack up and head indoors when I remembered some excellent photographic advice: "Always look behind you". I turned around to see the constellation Leo sinking toward Bristol Head and got a complementary shot of the western sky:
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| Laowa 15mm f/2 + Sparkle-6 filter. |
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