Some more stargazing

[alloutdoors]

Shot these at a local fishing pond on state forest land last night. This site is very remote and offers the darkest skies within a short drive of my house. At about 11:45, shortly before I packed up a truck showed up which at first I assumed was an ECO or maybe a state trooper out doing a night patrol. Turned out it was a younger couple, probably college age, guess they had plans to do some "star gazing" as well... yeah, I'm sure that was it.

 

 

Fireflies were out.

 

 

Doing some star gazing.

 

Pano shot of the Milky Way Arch

Edited June 30, 2016 by alloutdoors

[Renegade Hunter]

Great pictures... I used to do a little stargazing myself back in the day

[phade]

Wow those are awesome!

[dbHunterNY]

nice photos.  not a photographer to know any better but they look great.

[wooly]

Those are really sweet!

I'm torn between the daisy foreground shot and the one in the snapped off timber stand.

I like the dark side, so I'll go with the timber pic!

Glad you didn't post any close-ups of the "little dipper",lol