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Weather Watchers

usonian

(14,881 posts)

8. I took a shot from Central CA. Sierra Foothills.

Reply to 2naSalit (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2024, 11:31 PM

Oct 10

I couldn't see it with the unaided eye, but the camera seems to have gotten it.

20mm f/1.8 at 4 seconds, ISO 1000
Big Dipper at bottom left.
Image hosting and size reduction lose a bunch of image quality, Oh well.
Still a "catch" for this latitude, 37.5 degrees North.

The streaks are aircraft, no doubt. This is a busy air lane. I "healed" one out with its "flashenlights"
A house on the next ridge is a reference point.