Last evening I drove 2 hours north to Lake of Two Rivers in Algonquin Park to photograph the night skies - one of my favorite things to do.
The skies in Algonquin Park are very dark making them ideal for viewing and photographing the stars. I only had until about midnight before the moon appeared and washed out the dark skies.
The Milky Way reveals itself just above the tree line. The reddish North America Nebula is visible in the left portion of the image. Vega, the second-brightest star in the northern hemisphere, is visible in the upper centre. This is a 5-minute-long exposure and I used an equatorial mount to counter the earth’s rotation.
