Saturday afternoon at Wildcat Den State Park (near Muscatine, Iowa), I said something about the grist mill and its truss bridge perhaps being good foreground subjects for some Milky Way photos — both because of their orientation and their distance from light pollution. My wife asked when I could try. “Next year,” I said.
But even though we’re at the tail end of Milky Way visibility for the year, my photo app said we’d have about half an hour of the galactic core that night. We gave it a shot.
Turned out okay. Plus, we caught a bit of the Taurid meteor showers.
Related collection: Astrophotography.
