Astrophoto from Brooklyn New York, NYC and astrophotography tourism. I like astronomy, astrophotography and nightscape, starscape photography. I like to record the finest details of the Moon, planets, the Sun, the Milky Way and beauty of the night sky.
Telescopes: Celestron NexStar 4SE, Coronado Solarmax II 60.
Digital Cameras: Canon EOS Ra, 60Da and 40D. CCD: NexImage, NexImage 5.
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II, Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Telephoto USM
A still more glorious dawn awaits.
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise.
A morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the milky way.
Carl Sagan
This photo is from my trip to Bryce Canyon. It is continue my serious of night sky photos from National Parks. Bryce Canyon night sky is really very dark – you can see it from photo where the starry sky has natural green color – result of Airglow.
Photo is panorama of 7 shots; it is done in Sunset Point – Milky Way over Hoodoos. Duration of one shot was 30 seconds, Camera – Canon 60Da, Wide Angle EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Lens, F/3.5; ISO 6400.
Milky Way over Sunset Point of Bryce Canyon - Astrophotography
Do you believe that the Milky Way was not created by a geyser?
Night Sky Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful geyser and
Milky Way - Nightscape Astrophotography
Old Faithful Geyser located in Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming. Green colors of sky near horizon also does not result of the geyser, this is sky Airglow.
Milky Way over Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful geyser Night Sky Landscape Astrophotography Canon 60Da
Canon 60Da, Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, Exposure 30 sec; f/2.8; ISO 3200- Yellowstone Night-scape Astrophotograpgy
There are a lot of legends about origin of the Milky Way all over the Word. Every culture spoke about the Milky Way in terms of allegories that have special meaning to each individual culture. Definitely it should be legend about Milky Way from Yellowstone. However Yellowstone was very special land for Native Americans and they don’t trust white people and don’t like that they know about it. So only little Yellowstone myths we know now. Last year my daughter learned about Native American and I asked her to write the “missing” legend about geyser and the Milky Way. There is the legend.
The geyser, crow, corn, and the Milky Way
During fall the Native Americans were harvesting corn. One day a crow came, it wanted back some of the corn it gave to the Native Americans. It kept stealing the corn until the village made noise shakers and scared the crow away. While the crow was flying away holding corn in its beak, a geyser erupted and the corn kernels flew out of the crow’s beak. The crow chased it into the sky. From this day forward the corn kernels became the stars, and the dust has become the Milky Way.
Pretty much it is very close to what you see on picture above.
Interesting, recently, astronomers founded giant geysers in the center of our Galaxy. So such legend about connection the Milky Way and geysers even make sense but only on other level of understanding of the nature.
There is supervolcano night sky video on youtube. A supereruption of Yellowstone volcano will affect all word. Nobody knows when it happens. Geyser eruptions show that the Yellowstone giant volcano is still active, it just sleeping under wide and starry sky.
One more photo from Yellowstone National Park trip - Eruption of Old Faithful Geyser. Eruption was so strong that take most space on photo with wide angle lens. Dew was so big after eruption that it took some time to heat the lens to start photography again after that photo.
Yellowstone Night Landscape Geyser eruption Canon 60Da
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 30.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 4000
Yellowstone Geyser eruption and the Milky Way
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 30.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 4000
Yellowstone night sky Geyser astrophotography Canon 60Da
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 15.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 3200
Yellowstone night photography - black and white - Old Faithful Geyser
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 30.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 4000
Milky Way Galaxy Over Yellowstone National Park Starry night Sky Astrophotography Canon 60Da
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 30.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 4000
Yellowstone Park Milky Way Galaxy Geyser Airglow Night Sky Landscape Astrophotography
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 30.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 3200
Yellowstone eruptions and Pleiades seven sisters M45 Astrophotography
Camera Canon 60Da; Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 15.0 sec; f/2.8; ISO 3200
Pleiades and geyser Yellowstone night starry sky landscape Canon 60da
Yellowstone starry night astrophotography Canon 60Da
Night sky at Grand Teton is so dark that you can easily to
see reflection of stars. Jackson Lake, Colter Bay, Grand Teton National Park –
reflection of Big Dipper (Ursa Major constellation). You can see green Airglow near horizon and "star paths" - lengthened reflection of stars from slightly agitated water.
As simple as possible
Reflection of Ursa major (Big Dipper) Grand Teton Nightscape Astrophotography Canon 60Da
Canon 60Da; Canon Wide Angle Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 15.0 sec;
f/2.8; ISO 4000
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