The sky was finally clear on Sunday night after a long stretch of rainy weather. In mid September the Milky Way is well past the meridian by the time twilight ends. Measured sky-brightness to the east at 11 pm was sqml=21.35: good, but not great. Green and purple airglow is evident in the 60-sec exposures.
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| Leica 15mm f/1.7, sparkle-6 filter. 11 pm MDT |
To the north, the Pleiades were rising over Snowshoe Mountain:
The Great Square of Pegasus and the planet Saturn were high in the east:
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| credit: SkySafariAstronomy.com |
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