I've been wanting to visit Spruce Knob National Recreation Area in West Virginia for a few months now, but everytime the new moon came around it seemed to always be cloudy. This week I checked the forecast and I saw that it was supposed to be clear there on Tuesday and then cloudy and rainy for the rest of the forecast, so I decided to go for the long 4 and half hour drive there and hope the forecast pans out. I got to Spruce Knob Lake around 11:30pm which was about 2 hours before the Milky Way started to rise and I set up a timelapse which went on until the morning and then I drove up to the top of the mountain to watch the Milky Way rise and hopefully get some nice pictures but it was extremely windy so I drove back to the lake and took many stills and few panoramas until 5:30am which was astronomical twilight and then after getting all the gear back to the car I drove back home and walked around like a zombie for the rest of the day.
This image is one of about 1200 frames that I captured for timelapse.
Settings: Sony A7s, Sigma 14mm f/1.8, 15s, 8000iso.
If you'd like to see more of my images, you can find them on my Instagram @art_only
aryeh95 on April 7th, 2019 at 02:43 UTC »
edit: I just finished editing and uploading the timelapse that this image is from
I've been wanting to visit Spruce Knob National Recreation Area in West Virginia for a few months now, but everytime the new moon came around it seemed to always be cloudy. This week I checked the forecast and I saw that it was supposed to be clear there on Tuesday and then cloudy and rainy for the rest of the forecast, so I decided to go for the long 4 and half hour drive there and hope the forecast pans out. I got to Spruce Knob Lake around 11:30pm which was about 2 hours before the Milky Way started to rise and I set up a timelapse which went on until the morning and then I drove up to the top of the mountain to watch the Milky Way rise and hopefully get some nice pictures but it was extremely windy so I drove back to the lake and took many stills and few panoramas until 5:30am which was astronomical twilight and then after getting all the gear back to the car I drove back home and walked around like a zombie for the rest of the day.
This image is one of about 1200 frames that I captured for timelapse.
Settings: Sony A7s, Sigma 14mm f/1.8, 15s, 8000iso.
If you'd like to see more of my images, you can find them on my Instagram @art_only
Jumper117 on April 7th, 2019 at 02:57 UTC »
Interesting how there appears to be star trails in the reflection
JFujitaR on April 7th, 2019 at 04:24 UTC »
What would this look like with the naked eye? Can you actually see the milky way? (Been living my whole life in a light polluted area.)