I'm on a dark sky vacation, but forecast is bleak...so I took terrestrial photos, what does your dark site look like?

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Photon_Collector avatar
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I'm in a Bortle 3 zone in New York, and being from the city, this is the darkest sky I've seen in over a decade. However...its cloudy most of the rest of the week, so I started to take non-astro photos (I know, blasphemy) . Here's my favorite, taken with the Samyang 135mm ...this got me thinking, what does your "dark" site look like? 

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Scott Badger avatar
Scott Badger avatar
Northern NH, Bortle 3/2.

Cheers,
Scott
MaksPower avatar
MaksPower avatar
an old favourite dark site from long ago
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Here’s my rig getting ready at our new dark site …
Don Ogaard avatar
Don Ogaard avatar
Here's a couple of daytime shots of the area where I took my latest Milky Way shot. Bortle 2. It's about 30 min. from my front door.

The "sphinx" in late afternoon:



Paradise Alley area in the morning "golden hour":

Bill McLaughlin avatar
Bill McLaughlin avatar
And sometimes the conditions are not astronomically useful but photogenic nonetheless. Both shots from near my local roll-off..

Don Ogaard avatar
Don Ogaard avatar
Beautiful images, sir.
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