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I captured this photo of Luna’s Milky Way last April during a trip to the Big Bend National Park with some of my photography friends. I posted another photo of Luna’s Jacal with the Milky Way<\/a> last April. I also posted a story of how to use the Planning Tools<\/a>\u00a0to aid in capturing these type of photos. Night photography is one of the main reasons I enjoy going to the Park. The light pollution in the park is near zero. You can actually see the Milky Way Galaxy with your naked eye.<\/p>\n

Light pollution is measured using the\u00a0Bortle Scale<\/a>. \u00a0This is a nine-level scale that measures the night sky brightness. The scale was created by John E. Bortle and published in 2001 to help amateur astronomers evaluate the darkness of an observation site. Class 1 is for the darkest sites available on Earth while Class 9 is for inner-city skies. The scale gives some criteria as to what celestial objects you can see given that classification. For example, in a Class 1 sky (the darkest) you are able to see many faint constellations as well as shadows cast by other\u00a0regions of the Milky Way. A Class 9 sky is brightly lit by city lights and the only brightly visible objects are the moon, planets and bright constellations.<\/p>\n

If you live in Texas, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes the Bortle Ratings for each of the parks. You can access their page by clicking\u00a0here<\/a>. I am sure that other states and countries publish the scales for their parks. If they don’t, then you can use the Blue Marble Navigator<\/a> website to determine the light pollution for a certain area.<\/p>\n

\"Luna's<\/a>
Luna’s Milky Way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This image was taken with my\u00a0Canon EOS 5D Mark III<\/a>\u00a0using my Sigma 14mm f\/2.8 Lens. The camera was set on Manual mode with the aperture set at f\/2.8, shutter speed at 15 seconds and the ISO set at 5000. The inside of Luna\u2019s Jacal was lit with my head lamp. I simply turned it on and left it in the opening. The mountain was lit by a car that was traveling down the dirt road. This is a single image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.<\/p>\n

You can see other photos of my trips to Big Bend NP\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0or other night sky photos\u00a0here<\/a>. Please use the section below to post your comments, questions or suggestions.<\/p>\n

\"T.<\/a>
\n\u00a9 2016 T. Kahler Photography<\/p>\n

You can also follow my work on\u00a0Google+<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

PS: Please don\u2019t respond to this message as it will not reach me. Either post a comment or forward your response to my email address (terry@tkahler.com).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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