Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Pedernales Falls, TX   Milky Way 7/23/20, Space_Man_Spiff
Pedernales Falls, TX   Milky Way 7/23/20
Powered byPixInsight

Pedernales Falls, TX Milky Way 7/23/20

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Pedernales Falls, TX   Milky Way 7/23/20, Space_Man_Spiff
Pedernales Falls, TX   Milky Way 7/23/20
Powered byPixInsight

Pedernales Falls, TX Milky Way 7/23/20

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Pedernales Falls State Park in Texas has wonderfully dark skies. I enjoyed watching comet 2020 F3 Neowise set with the moon from the South side of the river and then crossed over to the north side to catch the Milky Way. Mean while the family was back at the camp site being terrorized by all sorts of animals while trying to sleep. It would seem that in my haste to get out under the stars I left out all of our food. We must have had every small animal in the county joining in the feast at our camp site that night. I returned to what looked like a trash dump. Wrappers were everywhere. Kids and wife were very cranky the next morning which led to us buying an RV for the rest of our road trip. You can see a time lapse of the comet and milky way here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0xGhrdrhVs

It would have been even better to have a time lapse of the critters rampaging our camp site.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Pedernales Falls, TX   Milky Way 7/23/20, Space_Man_Spiff