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Bo Zarts
Bo Zarts's Journal
Bo Zarts's Journal
June 30, 2021
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
Storm in the Back Country
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
June 29, 2021
Pinyon Peak with the Glow of Challis in the East
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
Fire Lookout by Night
Pinyon Peak with the Glow of Challis in the East
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
June 29, 2021
Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
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Wilderness Night Sky (Redux)
Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
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June 27, 2021
I took this photo at 2:40 AM MDT on July 20, 2020, from Pinyon Peak fire lookout (elevation 9945 feet) in central Idaho. It was a moonless night. I had been shooting to the northwest trying to get some photos of the comet Neowise, when something caused me to swing the camera around on the tripod and shoot to the south.
Moonrise was not until 5:55 AM, and that was a new moon (0% of full). I don't really remember seeing any particularly bright stars or planets that night. I was shooting with a Sony A7-R4 with a 24-104mm Sony lens. This particular shot was a 20 second exposure at f/5.6 (ISO1600), at the wide end of the lens range (24mm).
I shot about 60 images over the period of an hour, mostly of the northwest sky. The next day, when I downloaded the images from the camera into Lightroom, about ten images appeared totally black (underexposed). I saved them, but did not bother looking at them again until a couple of days ago (11 months later).
Looking at those images again yesterday, the histograms indicated that there was something to the RAW files worth checking out, so I pushed the exposure in Lightroom and finished them in Photoshop. The developed view includes a silhouetted portion of the lookout on the left, the Milky Way galaxy, a glow over the mountains that must be Stanley, Idaho, and the two bright bodies.
With a 20 second exposure, could Jupiter - for example - blow out in aggresive post-processing to look this large? I would think that planets rising in the ecliptic plane would be higher at that point (about 160° from my position), and certainly not side-by-side in the horizontal.
But what do I know? I'm a simple man. Give me a minute to pack a toothbrush and some things and I'll go with you. Sigh.
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Frorest, Idaho
July 20, 2020
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
I Am But a Simple Man. Who Are You and What Do You Want?
I took this photo at 2:40 AM MDT on July 20, 2020, from Pinyon Peak fire lookout (elevation 9945 feet) in central Idaho. It was a moonless night. I had been shooting to the northwest trying to get some photos of the comet Neowise, when something caused me to swing the camera around on the tripod and shoot to the south.
Moonrise was not until 5:55 AM, and that was a new moon (0% of full). I don't really remember seeing any particularly bright stars or planets that night. I was shooting with a Sony A7-R4 with a 24-104mm Sony lens. This particular shot was a 20 second exposure at f/5.6 (ISO1600), at the wide end of the lens range (24mm).
I shot about 60 images over the period of an hour, mostly of the northwest sky. The next day, when I downloaded the images from the camera into Lightroom, about ten images appeared totally black (underexposed). I saved them, but did not bother looking at them again until a couple of days ago (11 months later).
Looking at those images again yesterday, the histograms indicated that there was something to the RAW files worth checking out, so I pushed the exposure in Lightroom and finished them in Photoshop. The developed view includes a silhouetted portion of the lookout on the left, the Milky Way galaxy, a glow over the mountains that must be Stanley, Idaho, and the two bright bodies.
With a 20 second exposure, could Jupiter - for example - blow out in aggresive post-processing to look this large? I would think that planets rising in the ecliptic plane would be higher at that point (about 160° from my position), and certainly not side-by-side in the horizontal.
But what do I know? I'm a simple man. Give me a minute to pack a toothbrush and some things and I'll go with you. Sigh.
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Frorest, Idaho
July 20, 2020
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
June 27, 2021
Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
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Call of the Wild (Night Sky)
Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Idaho
© 2020 Bo Zarts Studio
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June 25, 2021
Light at the end of a long, painful tunnel?
Spinal surgery scheduled for next Thursday, 7/1. Posterior cervical discectomy and foraminotomy .. C7/T1.
June 19, 2021
Coronado National Forest, Arizona
© 2014 Bo Zarts Studio
Catalina Highway at the Hoo-Doo Vista
Coronado National Forest, Arizona
© 2014 Bo Zarts Studio
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