This weekend we headed to North Park for a birding trip. After arriving at Walden in the late afternoon, we set up the tent in the campsite. We had enough time remaining to head over to the Walden Reservoir before the sun went down. Here there were some of the species that we wished to see, including Western Grebes (carrying their young on their backs).
On returning to the campsite, conditions were perfect for some photography of the night skies. After some test shots, I discovered that exposures longer than 10 seconds resulted in star trails starting to record. Shooting at f/2.8 for 10 seconds, the ISO had to be raised to 3200. This is the first successful image with these settings.
Night Sky Over North Park
After some more test shots in different areas of the sky, I oriented the camera into a landscape format to capture some more images that included the Milky Way (the galaxy in which we are located).
Night Sky Over North Park, No 2
Several images captured the flashing beacons from overflying aircraft! After these reasonably successful images, I will definitely be making more attempts to capture the night sky.