August - September 2005

At Home in the Milky Way

 

A hillltop home in southwest Virginia suspended in the Milky Way.
(Canon 20D, 10mm, ISO 1600, 30 seconds, raw capture in PS CS2)

 

 

Jupiter and Venus at their closest approach, setting together; fainter
trail at left is Spica.

 

 

Rolling hills of Holston River Valley.

 

 

Sunset on George's porch.

 

 

Foggy morning.

 

 

Double flash from an Iridium satellite. First light illuminates fog from the
Middle Fork of the Holston River; Mars at upper left
(Canon 20D: 180 seconds @ F4, 10mm, iso 800)

 

 

The Old Moon (about 30 hours before New) and the Planet Mercury rising together in the dawn.
Canon 20D, AP 5" F6 refractor, three frame panorama. ISO 100, 1/30 sec @ F4.5.

 

 

Continuing the weekend's themes: Jupiter, Venus and Spica joined by the Moon above
the Catawba River on September 6, 2005. (APOD supplemental link, Sept 8.) Four
frame panorama, Canon 20D, 10-22mm.

 

 

Iridium in the dawn, September 11, 2005.
Canon 20D, 10-22mm.

 

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On the same visit to southwest Viriginia, George, Paul and I also spent
a day on the Virginia Creeper Trail.