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New Corona

New corona: 8 different exposures combined for a detailed look. The star Regulus is seen at lower left.

Our trip is continuing! We’ve been at Rocky Mountain National Park the last few days, Stan has been teaching a night sky workshop with the Rocky Mountain Conservancy. First off, I went back through my eclipse photos and found the series that was shot at varying exposures, in order to get the detail in the sun’s corona. Since it is bright near the sun’s disk and fainter farther away, short to long exposures are needed to show the wide range of brightness. I combined them together to get this amazingly detailed view of the corona during totality. It still doesn’t match what we saw with our own eyes up in the sky above Madras.

The night sky photography class went really well. Eight people signed up for the three-.ay workshop. We spent two nights in the park under the spectacular sky here. I shot some photos of the class at work on Saturday night. Here we are at the alpine Tundra Communities section, at an altitude of 12,000 feet. A crescent moon lights up the landscape and people, the glow of Denver can be seen in the lower right part of the photo.

The Night Sky Landscapes photography class at 12,000 feet in Rocky Mountain National Park.

One more shot from Boise: at the Hampton Inn breakfast we saw this display of miso soup and sticky rice! In Boise! And it was good. Farther down the road near Laramie, WY, Ann poses with the Sinclair dinosaur at a rest stop. We ‘discovered’ the Sinclair gas stations, which you don’t see back east. We liked the idea of the dinosaur logo.

Miso soup for breakfast! In Boise!

Ann and the Sinclair dinosaur.

 
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