Rhyolite at Night - #2

[JimFox]

This is photo #2 from my Rhyolite Ghost town visit a few weeks ago. It wasn't ideal for the Milky Way since the moon was at 40%, but I had lost track of my days and thought I was getting there the day before, which would have had the moon closer to 25% which is normally my limit, with my preference being 10 to 20% moon to help light paint the ground but not blow out the MW.

After the core of the MW moved behind the Cook Bank Building here in the previous image, I moved my setup about 50 feet to get the late season MW arching over the building. I don't normally move my timelapses once I start them, but I really didn't want half of the MW to get lost behind the building.

This is cropped from the original 10mm view.

Nikon Z8
Laowa 10mm f2.8 Zero-D
25 secs
f2.8
ISO 3200

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Kurt Harrigan]

Nice perspective here and you did pretty will with a moon at 40%. Where did you go after this area?

 

[Comet Hunter]

Great capture

 

[AlanLichty]

Looks really nice from this angle.

 

[JimFox]

Nice perspective here and you did pretty will with a moon at 40%. Where did you go after this area?

Thanks so much Kurt.

I spent the night in Rhyolite, and then I had to get back to SoCal as I had reservations for Disneyland, and then the following day I had a Maternity Photo Shoot I had scheduled. So at that point I was on a tight schedule.

 

[JimFox]

Great capture

I appreciate that Ed!

 

[JimFox]

Looks really nice from this angle.

Yeah, I liked this angle as well. I might try and get back there again next year. Now that I have shot there and reviewed my images I have some idea's on what I would like to try different.