Milky way, darkest place in the eastern US

So i've been waiting for about 4 months to go to this state park in Pennsylvania. Its a place called Cherry Springs State Park. It was a 6.5 hour drive from long island...it was well worth it! I had recently made a DIY about how to piggyback your camera to an EQ mount. I've done a few mods to it since the video, i added a ball head mount to the center...works flawlessly! Link:

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=l28bMljhs1o

Anyways, this place was amazing. Couldnt have asked for a more perfect night. I waited for a while to start seeing the milky way, but when it showed up over the hoizon, it was really neat, it looked like a patch of clouds at first. So yeah, this is what i did, and i hope you guys like them.

6 shot Panorama of the milky way @ 11mm:

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Absolutely amazing!!

It's not exactly a "dark night sky"

BEAUTIFUL...

Awesome! Love the pano! I need to pull up stellarium and find out when it's in my area and try a few pics

Number 1 is a sheer win. Number 2 has too much blur in the trees (wind I assume). Three has too many stars!!!

Having said that I love all three!

Wow.

like it....I used to live in Long island and even the NYAOS fave observing site in Robert Moses was not dark enough to see the milky way...now I go to Bryce Canyon.

Gutterscum wrote in post #14467432
Number 1 is a sheer win. Number 2 has too much blur in the trees (wind I assume). Three has too many stars!!!

Having said that I love all three!

#2 is a five minute track... anything attached to the earth that is in the frame is going to be blurred.

tonyniev wrote in post #14468641
like it....I used to live in Long island and even the NYAOS fave observing site in Robert Moses was not dark enough to see the milky way...now I go to Bryce Canyon.

I go down to Robert Moses a lot. they have a permit you can buy to get in and it's not bad at all. montauk is just too far for me. Robert Moses is only 15-20 min from me.


and thank you everyone! I have a few more shots but I haven't gotten to them yet.

There was a forum i use to be on that was called Our Dark Skies but it's closed now , but they had a Star Party there every year . If you can find out about it that would be a good time to go .

breath taking...

yeah I know about the annual star party there, I heard it gets pretty crowded. there were probably a good 30-40 people there Saturday. I only stayed for one night, but I do plan on going back again. maybe for the meteor shower in August. that would be a great site.

and let me tell you....I saw So many satellites that night I went. you can even see some of them blinking. it was quite amazing!

togish1 around what time (night or early am) were the shots taken? Trying to get an idea as to when the star cloud of Milky Way rises

Fantastic shots.....The W.Va./ Va. border is pitch black as well. Have a campsite there. The dew is a problem sometimes, but still a great dark site.

rahuljuvv wrote in post #14470384
togish1 around what time (night or early am) were the shots taken? Trying to get an idea as to when the star cloud of Milky Way rises

i think i started to see the middle section of it around 11:30pm...it changes every day though...download stelarium (sp?) and you can figure out everything from there

MidnightSun wrote in post #14470395
Fantastic shots.....The W.Va./ Va. border is pitch black as well. Have a campsite there. The dew is a problem sometimes, but still a great dark site.

yeah it was either i go down to VA or go to PA....i go to VA beach all the time, so a change of location was it for me