Night Sky at Jackson Lake - Grand Teton National Park

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Posted by Tim Buchanan on September 25, 2007 at 9:29 AM

Night Sky at Jackson Lake - Grand Teton National Park

I've just returned from a quick tour of three national parks - Teton, Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain. I still have many photos to process, and I'll post a link to a gallery once I have more to post. For the moment though, here's a picture from Jackson Lake as the moon was setting on the horizon. This is a 13 minute exposure (an hour would have been nicer - just didn't have the time).

Posted by Wayne Rhodus on September 25, 2007 at 9:34 AM

Hey Tim, glad to hear you got out of town for awhile, sounds like a fantastic trip. I hope you got enough time to enjoy each location. This is a neat image, amazing how much star trail movement there is in only 13 minutes! Looking forward to seeing your gallery!

Posted by Bill Dark on September 25, 2007 at 9:55 AM

Beautiful scene, Tim. Hope you had a great trip...looking forward to the gallery.

Posted by TIMERNST on September 25, 2007 at 10:24 AM

How did you hold color in the moon? That should have blown out to pure white. A very nice glow for sure...

Posted by Tom Kennon on September 25, 2007 at 10:55 AM

Tim, that is a really great shot, I am looking forward to seeing more! Did you catch any of the fall colors?

Posted by Tim Buchanan on September 25, 2007 at 11:14 AM

Tim: That's odd - there actually is a slight amount of color in this moon. I had to go back to my original PSD file, and in that version there <i>is no color</i> in the moon - all of the pixels are 255,255,255. I think the slight color that exists in the moon in this image is the result of JPG conversion. Even in the PSD file, the surrounding glow does kind of make it look warmer than it actually is.

Tom: In some (small) places, the color was brilliant, but there were still a lot of green aspens around. Guess we didn't get to the right location/elevation at the right time to see peak.