Stars

An array of colours along the path of The Milky Way. This is ten photos stitched together in Adobe Lightroom. It spans from North to South looking East.

Tried again, this morning, to spot Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. This comet could be beyond Willow’s and my ability to track down. It is very close to the horizon beside the Andromeda Galaxy. By the time it rises above the mountains the sky is losing darkness. Also, we haven’t had super clear skies and the thickest haze is always closest to the horizon. That haze is in fact pollution. That’s why many cities have beautiful sunsets.

The moon as it appeared just after dark.

It is funny in a ridiculous way, our summers are filled with smoke from forest fires, now the spring and fall also has it’s share of smoke, as the provincial government and logging companies burn slash piles. Slash piles are all of the waste wood left over from clear cut logging. There is a lot of waste; branches, rotting wood, stumps, small trees, basically any mess the companies leave behind is pushed into piles and set ablaze.

The core of The Milky Way returns signalling spring and the coming summer. The green haze is a combination of haze, light pollution and maybe even some stardust. Lake Windermere still has its layer of winter ice.

It would be interesting to know if these C0 emissions are counted as industry emissions or if they get tabled under forest fire emissions. The latter not counted towards Canada’s yearly emission targets. Regardless, it is another case of the government saying one thing and doing another. The entire valley could drive around in Diesel Ford F350s for years and not emit the pollution that one of these massive slash piles produce.

I don’t think there is any big conspiracy involved, I just think government is incompetent in this regard.

This is how a panorama looks when I am stitching it together. This is ten individual photos taken left to right with overlap. This image is five frames wide and two frames high. The lens used was 20mm, which is wide, so a lot of the sky is captured. I did not do a very good job of keeping the bottom of the photo even. It can be difficult as it is dark and I can not see through the viewfinder, so it is done by feel. The bright lights in the distance is Invermere.

7 thoughts on “Stars”

  1. mountaincoward's avatar

    mountaincoward

    that stitched photo is very cleverly and well done! You must have a lot of skill and patience.

    I hope they are classing those slash fires as part of CO2 emissions and not from forest fires.

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      underswansea

      Hi Carol, I have been doing some more research into the slash fires and have been surprised at what I am finding. It seems the emissions are not counted at all. Very strange. I’m still digging into this one to satisfy my curiosity. As for stitching the photos it is not too difficult. As long as the photos are taken properly the computer program does most of the work.

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        mountaincoward

        I think it sounds like you’ll have to write in to your local press with your findings because I bet noone really knows about it (except the perpetrators and the powers-that-be)!

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      underswansea

      Hi Julia, yes stitching photos is easy in Lightroom. You just have to make sure the photos overlap. The garlic I planted in the fall is up. I hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

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