Milky Way Over South Park Colorado

June 19, 2020 was a cloudless new moon night - a perfect time to try out my new 14mm f/2.8 lens on some Milky Way shots. It was a beautiful night but I wasn’t prepared for the 31F degree temperatures at 10,000 feet. Tough to manually focus with frozen fingers. I guess “officially” it wasn’t summer yet.

This is a single 60” exposure at f/2.8, ISO1600 using a star tracking feature on my camera. The image covers the constellation Sagittarius toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy. It shows several notable astronomical objects including Jupiter and Saturn and the dark horse, lagoon, trifid, swan, and eagle nebulae. These objects are notated on the second image below.