We had a few good meteors that we saw last night although I captured only one of the small ones that nobody else saw.
Tom doing his thing and showing us the night sky.
Moonrise over the hill
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Three AAAP members were preset at the Greene County Observing Site Saturday night. It turned out to be a pretty decent night.
Crescent Moon with Earth Shine and Jupiter
Greene County Site Looking South at the Summer Milky Way. Light pollution is more prominent here now than in past years.
Additional Information:
The area around the Greene County Observing Site has seen a lot of new industry construction; most of it related to the Marcellus Shale boom. Take a look at the Google Map view of all the new light sources that weren’t there 3 years ago. About 70% are from the last year alone. #1 is one of the brightest lights seen in the above Southern Milky Way shot.
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A series of short exposures combined in Deep Sky Stacker using a maximum pixel value to create an apparent long exposure without burning out foreground features. The green leaf pattern on the observatory is from the lights across the street shining through the trees.
