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The complete darkness in a foreign land fear didn't exactly subside by this night. No, I had to decide to do driving shots that required me to set the camera up on the tripod outside of the car. I'd then set the shutter for 30 seconds and push the timer, then jump in the car and go as the shot started. Since my head lights were on in this one you don't see the red streak of the brake lights. Oh and I messed up the one before. I had it on bulb and locked the cable release in, instead of having it on 30 seconds like I meant to. So I drive away, come back and it's still going! Oops, so much for that shot. These are 1600 ISO again to get the Milky Way, and 30 seconds long, enough time for me to drive out of the frame.
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This was about the best area I could find that would lead me towards the Milky Way, kind of like I was driving to it....or something(since we're already in it, duh). For the unknowing, we're on the edge of the spiraling Milky Way galaxy. The lights you see are looking down the disk towards the center. Essentially all those points of lights you see in the night sky are stars in our own galaxy. An estimated 100 billion of them is all. I LOVE to try and put that into context. Here is one way. Take a big football stadium that holds 80,000 people. How many of those would you need to seat all those stars? Only 1 million 250 thousand. 1,250,000 stadiums that have 80,000 seats each....just for the stars in our own galaxy. And how many of those have how many planets? Then consider the hubble space telescope images showing MANY thousands of GALAXIES in one small spot of the sky. That's another topic though.
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I didn't care much for setting up each shot in the total darkness, but did it anyway. And I'm now driving with my head lights off too. No one is in here, and I'd see their lights forever before they got to me. If I had the head lights on the red wouldn't show. The bright head lights would render that area of the picture blown out white.
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Ok, so it was empty after this motor cycle goes by in this one. You can still see the Milky Way out my window between those lights. This is a really ugly, cluttered image, I know.
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Another out my window. That red light is the security thing that is apparently not attached to any sort of siren in this car, lol. I do not get why it looks lined out like that. The cam never moved. Hmmm. Must be how it reflected.
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Standing by my car. That shows how dark it was outside. You see stars through me since I jumped into the shot and back out to start and stop the shutter.
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Cirrus from the west was finally blotching out my Milky Way. Never in my life have I been so happy to see cirrus. It was midnight Monday night now and all I wanted was to go back to the motel I got in Wall and sleep. I did just that from probably 1:30 to 7:30. I'd have slept longer but someone texted me and my phone went off for it! All in all a very fun, entertaining trip.
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